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Joinery performance: work with wood, not against it

There are two ways of looking at wood as a manufacturing material. One can select appropriate species and exploit its properties through good component design or, as happens all too often, one can consider wood's unique properties as a nuisance and a hindrance to the manufacturing process. This route leads to failures which could easily be avoided through greater understanding and care.

Waste minimisation

The creation of waste involves buying a raw material then spending time, money and energy processing it, before paying someone else to take it away. Wood waste is the specific issue which is associated with the timber and furniture industries, but there are other important sources of waste such as solvent, energy, packaging and transport fuel.

The Environmental Merits of Timber

As architects and specifiers make decisions today about the buildings and structures for the first years of the 21st century, Britain’s oldest building material is re-emerging as the truly modern answer to today’s building design challenges.

Timber Certification

Independent verification that timber is obtained from sustainable sources is being demanded, not only by the ‘green’ consumer lobby, but increasingly through government procurement requirements for major projects, especially those attracting public funding...

Wood: A Natural, Renewable, Structural Material

The natural purpose of wood is to provide a framework which supports the foliage and fruits of the tree and which is resistant to lateral wind forces and gravity loads. These structural properties make it an ideal construction material.

UV Pine - lacquer free coloration

Adding colour to pine the natural way

UK softwood drying

From UK softwood drying: A best practice guide. 2000 All timber over a period of time will reach a moisture content which is in equilibrium with the temperature and humidity of the surrounding atmosphere. Moisture content measurement is based on the weight of water present in the timber and is expressed as a percentage of the dry weight of the timber.

Specifying sustainable timbers – Do the right thing!

Alun Watkins discusses key issues for designers, specifiers and clients to consider when selecting timber species.

Wood dust: measure to manage

Wood dust is an important health issue for the furniture industry. Duties exist to control exposure and monitoring forms an essential element of any programme of control

Moisture content

Wood will always contain some water. 'Green' wood, as felled, may be saturated, with the cell cavities full of water or sap, and water chemically bound in the cell walls.

Structure of wood

Describes the structure of wood and how this affects visible aspects including sapwood and heartwood, knots, growth rings, grain figure and texture

Solid Timber: Sections and Sizes

Explains the patterns used for sawing logs and the effect on the sections cut. Gives commonly available section sizes.

Introducing wood

Provides information on the properties of timbers and the terminology used.

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