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?op. & Tqlbot Now Supplying Pqrticle Boord With New Strength ond Smoothness

A new kind of engineered particle board-available for the first time in a range of strengths and smoothnesseshas been developed by Pope & Talbot, Inc., long-time western lumber and veneer produce.rs. This is the firs1 successful multi-grade production in the particle board industry. Pope & Talbot is now .supplying- building and industrial accounts with board accuiately ingineerCd to serve a wide range of requirements.

is proving eminently successful. This combines the extra smoothness requireil work with the additional strengfh not particle board.

A new production technique, developed for the one-anda-half-million dollar Oakridge, Oregon, plant, enables complete integration of two different formi of wood'fibre in any_ desired proportion. One material is regular planing mill shavings, pneumatically piped into hali of t6e dual supply system from the adjacent The other material is long-fibre factured from solid green wood.

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With electronic measuring devices, these two materials -shavings and flakes-can be blended to form a multi- platen particle board with predetermined characteristics. Although practically any desired proportion of the two materials is possible, most end uses can be served with either pure board of one type or the other, or 25/o combinations of the two.

_ Manl- furniture-manrllacturers, for example, are choosing Pope & Talbot 100/o Flakeboard as theif core stock, be*cause of its smoothness, high strength and machineability. In some instances, this material has eliminated the need for cross-banding. In other applications, such as cabinetwork, a Pope & Talbot blend of 50/o shavings-S}/o flakes l-a Habra councilmen approved three dwellings; one tract of 87 homes at avenue, and two tracts with 54 north of lower cost board for custom-quality found in regular tract maps totaling 141 Ocean and La Lomas Whittier boulevard.

Still another area of use is pointing up the value of Pope & Talbot 100/o shavings-'board.-Initalled as floor underlayment, this board is not only further cutting building costs, but providing a floor covering base of iemarkably new smoothness.

Additional information on these new Pope & Talbot particle--boards may be obtained by writing directly to the sales ofifices at Pope & Talbot, Inc., 3070 N-.W. Front Ave., Portland 10, Oregon.

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