Timber Industries and Non-Timber Forest Products

The emerging professionalism in Timber Trade and Forest Utilization, the growing number of forestry courses, wood-based industries, timber and non-timber forest products courses call for an appropriate book, which should enable the novice to understand the various intricacies and ramifications in the subject and help those, who are already in the profession, improve their knowledge. This book, which combines theoretical as well practical knowledge of the author, has been prepared keeping these objectives in mind. 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, fiberboard, 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 technician’s 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. Though its primary use may be as a textbook for the forestry degree and diploma students, many a more experienced foresters, forest scientists, teachers, researchers, forestry professionals, wood scientists, wood technologists, timber industrialists and forest produce dealers will be glad to have this book on their bookshelves for general reference.