Framing the future breakthrough technology for wood and wood composites

Forest products is one of nine energy-intensive industries that are collaborating with the US Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) in a research and development program called "Industries of the Future." The program creates partnerships between industry, gove...

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Published in:Forest products journal 2003-03, Vol.53 (3), p.4-9
Main Authors: SHOWALTER, John Buddy, GLOWINSKI, Robert, WOODSON, George, PRICE, Eddie W
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adhesives
Applied sciences
Composite materials
Construction
Contracts
Costs
Emissions control
Energy consumption
Energy efficiency
Environmental impact
Exact sciences and technology
Forecasts and trends
Forest products
Forest products industry
Housing starts
Indoor air quality
Innovations
Laboratories
Manufacturing
Partnering
Plastics
Polymer industry, paints, wood
Productivity
R&D
Research & development
Research agreements
Resins
Technology
Wood
Wood composites
Wood products
Wood. Paper. Non wovens
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Summary:Forest products is one of nine energy-intensive industries that are collaborating with the US Department of Energy's Office of Industrial Technologies (OIT) in a research and development program called "Industries of the Future." The program creates partnerships between industry, government, and supporting laboratories and institutions to accelerate the research, development, and deployment of new technologies. These technologies are aimed at cutting energy use, minimizing environmental impacts, and improving productivity in industry. Although there have been new wood products introduced in recent years, processing technologies in areas such as log scanning, mechanical grading, optimized cutting, vacuum autoclaves, drying cycle optimization, and curve sawing have been only incrementally innovative. This is because the innovations improved an existing process but did not replace it. Development of current wood processing and manufacturing techniques has progressed over time using specific product needs. No focused approach to total reduced energy consumption for wood processing and manufacturing has occurred.
ISSN:0015-7473
2376-9637