Industrial Wood Products & Market Opportunities

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1 Industrial Wood Products & Market Opportunities Rusty Dramm Technology Marketing Unit Forest Products Laboratory May 1, 2012 SmallWood Conference Flagstaff, AZ Disclaimer use of the trade name, firm, or corporation names in this presentation is for the information only and does not imply endorsement or approval of any product or service by United States Department of Agriculture of any product or service. The Forest Products Laboratory is maintained in cooperation with the University of Wisconsin.

2 Historical Use of Wood in Industrial Products Railroad ties, trestles & bridge timbers Grain elevators & bins Grain doors for RR boxcars Stock pens & chutes Ice houses & icing docks Coal docks & bins Utility poles & cross arms Bearings, pulleys & sheaves Packaging crates & excelsior Water tanks & cooling towers Courtesy of Camas Prairie Railroad Planes, trains, ships & other marine uses piling, wharfs

3 Spruce Goose Courtesy of Hughes Aircraft Co.

4 British Mosquito Courtesy of de Havilland Aircraft Co.

5 LCVP (Higgins) Landing Craft Courtesy of Higgins Industries

6 US Navy Mine Sweeper Courtesy of Peterson Builders, Sturgeon Bay, WI

7 Industrial Wood Market Opportunities 8 to 20+ in. Diameter Logs 8 in. Diameter & Smaller Logs Timber Resource Lumber Manufacturing Round Timber Manufacturing Green Veneer Manufacturing Composites Manufacturing Paper Chips & Residues Mfg. Construction and Factory Lumber Industrial Sawn Wood Products House Logs, Utility Poles, Marine Piling Laminated Veneer Lumber OSB, MDF, Particleboard & Wood/Plastic Composites Pulp Production Cull Material & Mill Residues Kiln Drying and Heat Treating Wood Preservation Oriented Strandboard Paper Production Hog Fuel & Pellets Secondary Mfg. Cutstock & Paneling Export Pallet Stock &Cants Treated Lumber, Ties & Timber Bridges Treated Piling, Utility Poles & Fence Posts Engineered I-Joists Cabinets, Furniture, Signs, etc. Paper & Allied Products Bio Fuels & Gasification Value-Added Products

8 Sawn Industrial Wood Products Railroad crossties, switch ties, bridge timbers Timbers and cants Pallets & pallet stock Industrial wood block flooring Truck bed flooring Fencing Equipment and oil well mats Concrete forms Survey stakes & lath Stringers, blocking & dunnage Sound barriers and retaining walls

9 Export Cants and Timbers Courtesy of Mescalero Forest Products

10 Pallets & Pallet Stock Courtesy of Wisconsin DNR

11 Crates & Wire-Bound Boxes Jefferson State Forest Products. Hayfork, CA

12 Case Goods & Store Fixtures Jefferson State Forest Products. Hayfork, CA

13 Wood Crates and Boxes Courtesy of Riverview Industrial Wood Products, Inc.

14 Survey Stakes & Lath USDA Forest Service

15 Oil Well, Crane & Dragline Mats Courtesy of Southern Hardwood Co.

16 Roadway & Foundation Mats Courtesy of NorWest Industrial Mats

17 Blocking Courtesy of American Pole and Timber Co.

18 Industrial Wood Block Floors High School Industrial Arts Shop Courtesy of Kaswell Flooring Systems

19 Commercial Wood Block Floors Courtesy of David Old Old Wood LLC

20 Sports Floors Courtesy of Jack Gruber, USA TODAY

21 Semi-Trailer and Container Wood Flooring Courtesy of Rad Woodwork Company, Inc.

22 Lumber Drying & Heat Treating Phytosanitary concerns Canadian US Lumber Trade Agreement APHIS Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Courtesy of Dusty Moller

23 Conventional Lumber Dry Kilns Courtesy of Dusty Moller

24 Courtesy of Dusty Moller

25 Timber Bridges USDA Forest Service

26 Industrial Pressure Treated Wood Products Courtesy of Webster Wood Preserving Co.

27 Railroad Crossties & Switch Ties Courtesy of Webster Wood Preserving Co.

28 Railroads are Accelerating Track Maintenance Programs Burlington Northern Santa Fe Union Pacific CSX Transportation Norfolk Southern Canadian Pacific Canadian National

29 Physical Requirements 7x9 in. x 8 ft. 6 in. Courtesy of Webster Wood Preserving Co.

30 Are Softwoods Species Suitable for RR Ties? The allowable species per the Railway Tie Association (RTA) tie standards: Red Oak* Ash Gum White Oak* Hackberry Pines Beech Hemlock Yellow Poplar Birch Hickory Redwood Douglas-fir Larch Spruce Elm Locust Sycamore Firs (true) Maple But consult with your treating plants and railroads to determine suitable species

31 Roundwood Industrial Products Post and pole fencing Guard rail posts Utility poles Coral poles Tree props Hops poles USDA Forest Service

32 Poles USDA Forest Service

33 Post and Pole Fencing USDA Forest Service

34 Small Roundwood Products Tree props Corral poles Privacy fence Hops poles Grape stakes Big Sky Forest Products, St Regis, MT

35 Round Post Guardrail Systems Structural grading Dynamic testing Crash testing USDA Forest Service

36 Utility Poles to Piling Fort Apache Timber Co., Whiteriver, AZ

37 Questions? When does the reception start, eh?