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2. Plywood - Wikipedia

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   Baltic Birch plywood is a product of an area around the Baltic Sea. Originally manufactured for European cabinet makers but now popular in the United States as well. It is very stable composed of an inner void-free core of cross-banded birch plys with an exterior grade adhesive. The face veneers are thicker than traditional cabinet grade

3. BS 1088 - Wikipedia

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   Moisture Content-- BS 1088 plywood must have a moisture content between 6% and 14% when it leaves the factory. Finishing -- Boards will be sanded on both sides equally. Length & Width -- The length or width of a board produced as a standard size shall not be less than the specified size nor more than 6.3 mm (0.25") greater than the specified size.

4. Birch - Wikipedia

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   The Hughes H-4 Hercules was made mostly of birch wood, despite its better-known moniker, "The Spruce Goose". Birch plywood was specified by the BBC as the only wood that can be used in making the cabinets of the long-lived LS3/5A loudspeaker. [14] Birch is used as firewood because of its high calorific value per unit weight and unit volume. It ...

5. British timber trade - Wikipedia

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   Also of concern was the foreign domination of the Baltic timber trade. This problem was only partially solved by the inclusion of timber in the Navigation Acts of 1651 and 1660. While the acts successfully excluded the Dutch from Britain's trade with the Baltic, it still allowed the Baltic countries the right to import their own timber.

6. Timber framing - Wikipedia

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   Its northernmost areas are Baltic countries and southern Sweden. Timber framing is rare in Russia, Finland, northern Sweden, and Norway, where tall and straight lumber, such as pine and spruce, is readily available and log houses were favored, instead.

7. Oriented strand board - Wikipedia

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   It is now more popular than plywood, commanding 66% of the North American structural panel market. [3] The most common uses are as sheathing in walls, flooring, and roof decking. For exterior wall applications, panels are available with a radiant-barrier layer laminated to one side; this eases installation and increases energy performance of ...