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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"cants"”.
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Predicting Pallet Part Yields From Hardwood Cants
… material costs. By knowing the quality of the cants being processed, pallet manufacturers can predict costs to attain better value from their raw materials and more accurately price their pallets. The study objectives were 1) to develop a procedure for accurately predicting hardwood pallet part …
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Factors affecting sawmill residue chip quality
… were not re-chipped. Material types included cants as controls, slabs, edgings, and trim blocks. Chipper rim speeds included the manufacturerJs recommended 3,385 meters per minute along with 2,370 meters per minute and 1,693 meters per minute achieved by the drift-down method. Knife angles …
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Effects of selected factors on sawmill residue wood chip quality
… pin and fine chips produced from edgings, 6"x6" cants and trim blocks and 2) to recommend changes in processing sawmill residues to minimize the production of over thick, pin and fine chips. Ten trials were conducted at the Chesapeake Corporation's West Point, Virginia hardwood sawmill using a …
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Wood Use Trends in the Pallet and Container Industry
… was purchased or processed as lumber and cants, and an additional 707 million board feet as hardwood parts. Approximately 51% of the hardwood consumed was a mixture of hardwood species. Oak accounted for 31% of the hardwood used by the industry. For softwood, an estimated 1.52 billion …
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A Business Model for a Red Oak Small Diameter Timber Processing Facility in Southwest Virginia
… The yield of 3" wide container parts from cants varied from 63% to 66%. The 1" nominal lumber produced was mainly 2A and 3A, 74%, and 24% was 1 common. The economic analysis utilized break even, net present value and internal rate of return analyses to determine the economic feasibility of …
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Wood-based material use in the United States pallet and container industry
… for over 1.6 billion board feet of lumber, cants, parts, and shook. Southern yellow pine consumption was an estimated 541 million board feet in 1991, followed closely by almost 500 million board feet of yellow-poplar, and over 227 million board feet of alder. Seventy percent of hardwood …
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The atomic and magnetic structures of several iron-substituted rare-earth manganese germanides and stannides
… in which the easy magnetization direction cants away from the c-axis and the a-axis with increasing temperature for the germanides and the stannides, respectively. The easy magnetization direction of all samarium-containing samples is parallel to, or at least aligned at a small angle with, …