New Oregon Hard Board Plant Now ln Production

strong fibers in Douglas Fir prove to be particularly sui,cnble for the production of this pressed hard board.

The Forest hard board plant is designed to manufacture this board by a completely controlled manufacturing proccss rvhich guarantees the panels to be especially resistant to chipping, breaking, cracking and denting. It is claimed that each of the Forest hard board panels is completelv ur.riform in density and hardness thus making it possible to work the board with ordinary wood rvorking tools, as rvell as take paint finishes by spraying, brushing or baking.

The new plant incorporates all the latest mechanical improvements including the country's largest press. This press produces Forest hard board panels 16, long and i, wide. Initial production will include panels in sizes ranging from 4'x( to 4'xl€, and thicknesses of r/4',, s/r6,t an(l %". Panels are packaged in units of six.

Plant production is nou' 500,000 square feet per rveek and capacity will be increased in the near future to 1.000.000 square feet of hard board per week.

The Stimson Lumber Company, also of Forest Grove, has been appointed sales agent for the nerv Forest hard board.

Introduction of Forest hard board, a completely new hard board panel processed from Douglas Fir Fibers has been announced by Harold A. Miller, president of Fore,;t Fiber Products Company, Forest Grove, Oregon.

Forest hard board is produced in a new plant which is the first major unit in the company's plans for furthei' utilization of marginal Douglas Fir lumber. The long,

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