NEWS & RESOURCES
The American term for converted wood or sawn timber. Lumber mills and sawmills are terms used to describe the processing units that carry out this conversion.
Life cycle assessment, usually environmental. A science based measurement system involving the collection of data on all the inputs and outputs of material, energy and waste associated with a product over its entire life cycle to calculate the environmental impact.
The process of drying lumber artificially under scientifically controlled conditions. Kilns are the chambers having controlled air flow, temperature and relative humidity for drying lumber, veneer and other wood products.
The dark marking where the branch jointed the tree trunk. In hardwood strip flooring, small and pin knots aren’t more than ½” in diameter. A sound knot is a knot cut approximately parallel to its long axis so that the exposed section is definitely elongated.
Wood dried with artificial heat in a controlled environment as opposed to naturally air dried.
Strip flooring, generally birch, beech, hard maple or pecan, manufactured with square edges, not side-matched, but usually end-matched. It is used principally for factory floors where the square edges make replacement of strips easier.
A reference scale used to rate the hardness of a wood species. The hardness indicates the ability to resist wear, denting, and surface scratches. (Red oak has a Janka Scale rating of 1260 lbs/sq.)
A hardness test, usually for wood flooring, the rating is pounds of pressure required to press a steel ball .444 inches in diameter one half way into the wood. It is one of the best measures of the ability of a wood species to withstand denting and wear. It is also a good indicator of […]