Timber Industries And Non-Timber Forest Products

The book deals with the whole gamut of activities involved in forest industries right from lumber technology saw milling types of saws sawing operations and methods of sawing sawmill equipments and layout saw doctoring portable sawmill reconstituted wood products adhesives laminated lumber veneer and plywood particleboard and composite products fibreboard paper and pulp charcoal manufacture wood carbonization and by-products shake and shingle industry further processed wood products complete utilization of wood and biomass to forest products other than timber role of NTFP in national economy policy and future management and international cooperation. A large number of diagrams have been included in the book to illustrate the subject under various conditions. It is a textbook well adapted to forestry courses at the College/University/Professional level as well as to growing number of wood-based industries and wood/timber trade courses. It is useful in sawyers and timber technicians training programmes and in vocational timber industry courses forest utilization and sawmill technicians courses and as a home-study text for students of forestry engineering and architecture etc. It is suitable for in service training classes such as those given by Federal and State Forestry Training Colleges/Schools resource management agencies and private companies dealing with timber industries and non-timber forest products. Also individual forest owners timber and forest produce dealers who seek a better technical grasp of forest-based industries and forest products will find the book useful.