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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Hardwood Lumber"”.
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Assessment of Cross Laminated Timber Markets for Hardwood Lumber
… this study was to assess the potential of using hardwood lumber in CLT manufacturing. The goal was achieved by addressing four specific objectives. The first objective was to collect CLT manufacturers' perspectives for using hardwood lumber in the current manufacturing setup. The second objective …
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Demand, supply and price of hardwood lumber: an econometric study
Historically, the quantity of hardwood lumber supplied and demanded has fluctuated from year to year while the price of hardwood lumber has trended with the wholesale price index. During the 1970's, production and usage of hardwood lumber trended downward while price increased by over 100 percent. …
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Business-level competitive strategy in the United States hardwood lumber industry
Three related aspects of competition in the U.S. hardwood lumber industry were investigated. First, product and supplier attributes that are determinant in hardwood lumber purchase decisions were investigated within four segments of the market for hardwood lumber: Millwork producers, hardwood …
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Production, distribution and consumption of hardwood lumber in the southern Appalachian region
… study was undertaken to describe the patterns of hardwood lumber production, distribution, and consumption in the Southeast. Current distribution patterns were compared with theoretically optimal patterns in an attempt to estimate the efficiency of the current distribution system. A combination …
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Implications of internationalization on export assistance in the eastern hardwood lumber industry
A questionnaire was sent to 1,149 small eastern hardwood lumber firms to determine export assistance needs. Data from 354 producers and distributors were analyzed using the concept of internationalization. Internationalization is the gradual process by which firms increase involvement in foreign …
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Modeling Factors that Influence Firm Performance in the Eastern Hardwood Lumber Manufacturing Industry
… organizational factors and firm performance of hardwood lumber manufacturers were tested. These factors were operationalized, measured in a mail survey and used in statistical analysis to identify relationships among the variables. An adjusted response rate of 19.8% was obtained from the mail …
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An analysis of hardwood lumber and other wood-based materials use in the wood furniture industry
… (2) to examine consumer perceptions of certain hardwood lumber and supplier attributes in order to ascertain which are most influential in consumer purchase decisions. This study also provided information about the respondents, RTA and unfinished furniture, and green lumber purchases. Total 1990 …
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An Examination of Appalachian Forest Products Exports
… value added export opportunities for the hardwood products manufacturing industry. By studying current industry practices and trends, we can better understand the opportunities hardwood lumber businesses have exploited in the past and could do so today. The study found that opportunities …
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A Simple Machine Vision System for Improving the Edging and Trimming Operations Performed in Hardwood Sawmills
Hardwood timber is a substantial economic staple in the eastern U.S., where primary hardwood processors produce more than 10 billion board feet of sawn hardwoods annually. There are over 3,500 sawmills producing hardwood lumber in the Southeastern portion of the United States. Present trends such …
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Wood-based material use in the United States pallet and container industry
… to (1) estimate the total volume of hardwood lumber, softwood lumber, and wood-based panels used by the industry in 1991, (2) estimate lumber use by species category within the industry, and (3) predict shifts in the volumes of wood-based materials used by the U.S. pallet and …
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Hardwood Use in China's Wood Furniture Industry: A Small Sample Assessment
… approximately 140,000 cubic meters. On average, hardwood dimension accounted for 25% of the total volume of the wood materials used by wood furniture makers. This was followed by particleboard (24%), hardwood lumber (22%), and medium density fiberboard (MDF) (17%). Domestic species grown in …
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Wood materials use in the U.S. cabinet industry, 1991-1993
… nearly 43 percent of the industry’s employment. Hardwood lumber, particleboard, and hardwood plywood were the materials most heavily utilized for wood cabinet production. Softwood lumber, softwood plywood, and oriented Strandboard were used in limited volumes. Of lumber used for cabinet …
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Identifying Impact Factors on Successful Exporting of the United States Hardwood Industries to Mexico, Asia, and Europe
Transportation and competitiveness practices of hardwood lumber exporters and other firms were studied and compared to determine the most important factors associated with exporting hardwood products. It was found that exporters differed significantly in their transportation methods, marketing …
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Regional utilization of reusable pallets by the grocery and related products industry
… increasing the pallet industry's use of hardwood lumber from 14 percent to almost 50 percent of total hardwood lumber production. Part of this growth can be attributed to the grocery and related products industry, which should continue as a major growth area for pallet usage over the next …
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Activity-based product costing in a hardwood sawmill through the use of discrete-event simulation
… and scaling diameter, on the cost of producing hardwood lumber, using the activity-based costing technique. The usual technique of calculating hardwood lumber product costs is based upon traditional cost accounting, where manufacturing costs are allocated to the products based upon the volume of …
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A Multiple Sensors Approach to Wood Defect Detection
… price increases in the cost of high-quality lumber together with the reduced availability of this resource have forced manufacturers to utilize lower grade hardwood lumber in their manufacturing operations. This use of low quality lumber means that the labor involved in converting this lumber …
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Wood Material Use in the U.S. Cabinet Industry: 1999 - 2001
… used an estimated 484 million board feet of hardwood lumber. Nearly 95% of the hardwood lumber purchases were grade 1 common or better. The most common used species were red oak (44%) and hard maple (24%). An estimated 58 million board feet of components and 68,344 doors were also purchased …
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Optimization of edging and trimming operations for red oak lumber
… of edging and trimming operations for red oak lumber through computer-aided optimization. The main objective was to evaluate how lumber value recovered by actual hardwood operations compare with the maximum value obtainable through the optimization of edging and trimming. An optimization …
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Simulating Optimal Part Yield from No. 3A Common Lumber
… of low-grade material composing the annual hardwood lumber production in the U.S. is on the rise. As a result, finding markets for low-grade and low-value lumber has been identified as a top priority by researchers and industry associations. Computer simulation has been used by the …
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Material use, product profile and channels of distribution in the U.S. wood furniture industry
… consumed an estimated 2.3 billion board feet of hardwood lumber, 865 million board feet of softwood lumber, 1.3 billion square feet of particleboard (3/4" basis), and 370 million square feet of medium density fiberboard (3/4" basis). Further, an estimated 268 million square feet of softwood …
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