Pine Plywood lllanulacture in Galilornia's Historic Mother Lode Area

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Tucked away among the foothills of Calaveras Couuty in California and within an hour's easy drive off U. S. Highw,by 99 at Stockton or.Lodi, is a plywood plant believed to be the southernmost upon the entire Pacific Coast.

The plant is controlled and operated by the Calaveras Forest Products Corp., an associate of Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc. All plywood sales are made through the latter firm. A company spokesman for Tarter, Webster & Johnson, Inc., states: .!Expansion of our plywood manufacturing facilities is but one step iu Tarter, Webster & Johnson's program to provide a completely rounded-out line of the highest quality forest products."

Although neithel the plant itself nor the annual produc- tion, estimated at seven million square feet, is large as plywood plants go, this unit is fully equipped to produce standard, interior-type plywood in the popular 4x8 ft. size panel. Principal items of equipment include a Globe Log Barker, Coe 110" Veneer Lathe, Elliott Bay Clipper, Proctor 3-section 4 conveyor Dryer and a Marolf 52"x108" Hydraulic Cold Press. These are supplemented by complete and partially automatic' patching equipment and a battery of four controlled panel-conditioning kilns.

Glued, untrimmed plywood pcnelr cre sticker-piled on kiln truckr qnd lelt to secaon tor lrom 16 to 24 hours in kilns whose tempercture and humidity qre cohtrolled by instruments in loreground. Among pine plywood mcnulccturers, this procese ig exclugive to this pltrnt.

All panels manufactured at this plant are glued with 10cycle bond according to U. S. Government specificaticns for concrete forms, military hutments, etc., although the

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