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2. Lumber prices are plunging. Blame the record drop in U.S ...

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   Lumber’s price drop has been particularly dramatic in just the last 90 days in the futures market, with contract prices for July falling 28% to $466 per thousand board feet (futures prices are ...

3. Wood preservation - Wikipedia

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   Apart from structural wood preservation measures, there are a number of different chemical preservatives and processes (also known as timber treatment, lumber treatment or pressure treatment) that can extend the life of wood, timber, and their associated products, including engineered wood. These generally increase the durability and resistance ...

4. History of the lumber industry in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Lumber prices. Presently there is a healthy lumber economy in the United States, directly employing about 500,000 people in three industries: Logging, Sawmill, and Panel. [62] Annual production in the U.S. is more than 30 billion board feet making the U.S. the largest producer and consumer of lumber. [62]

5. Chromated copper arsenate - Wikipedia

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   The mixture is infused into wood at high pressure. [4] In the treated wood, arsenic is believed to be in the form of chromium (III) arsenate CrAsO 4 and/or copper(II) arsenate Cu 3 (AsO 4) 2, or fairly stable chromium dimer-arsenic clusters. [4]

6. Plywood - Wikipedia

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   Other types of plywoods include fire-retardant, moisture-resistant, wire mesh, sign-grade, and pressure-treated. However, the plywood may be treated with various chemicals to improve the plywood's fireproofing. Each of these products is designed to fill a need in industry. Baltic Birch plywood is a product of an area around the Baltic Sea.

7. Lumber - Wikipedia

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   One of the early treatments to "fireproof lumber", which retard fires, was developed in 1936 by the Protexol Corporation, in which lumber is heavily treated with salt. [36] Wood does not deteriorate simply because it gets wet. When wood breaks down, it is because an organism is eating it. Preservatives work by making the food source inedible to ...

8. Pole building framing - Wikipedia

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   Poles, from which these buildings get their name, are natural shaped or round wooden timbers 4 to 12 inches (100 to 300 mm) in diameter. [4] The structural frame of a pole building is made of tree trunks, utility poles, engineered lumber or chemically pressure-treated squared timbers which may be buried in the ground or anchored to a concrete slab.

9. US manufacturers see higher metal prices as tariffs near - AOL

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   Hot rolled coil prices in the Midwest have jumped 12% to $839 per short ton during the two weeks to Thursday and climbed 20% since Trump took office on January 20, according to data provider ...