New Arcqto Redwood Compony ftfill lnstollotions Will Afford End ond Edge-Glued Stock to Retoil Trqde

Another contribution to modern conservation and tree utilization practices h:rs just been made by a heads-up redrvood millCRA meml>er Arcata ltedrvood Companv. with mills at Arcata and Orick. California. Follorving preliminary runs and adjustments, the Hunlboldt Countv lrroclucer recently announced that it and edge-glued stock to the country.

is non in position to furnish end the retail industry throughout

The end and edge-glue process, as far as redu'ood lumber is concerned, is relatively new, and it has been only recently that end and edge-glued stock has been offered to the retail industry. The process has been used rvidely in other species, however, and has been very successfnlly substituted for regular lumber.

Arcata's new plant is housed in a 11Ox200' building, construction of lvhich was started in August 195(r. Seventeen men are employed on the floor, in addition to Supervisor Joe DeFino and Millwright Ilobert N{orrisiorr. The plant uses mill trims and short lengths of lrrmbcr frrinr -\rCata's sawmills at Arcata and Orick. Nornrai prodnction per shift is approximately 6,000 board feet of er-rcl-glrrccl stock and 8,000 board feet of edge-glued stock.

At the present time only 4/4 stock is being glucd; hol,ever, the coml)any hopes in the future to offer tl.rickncsses through S/4-bottr end and edge-glued.

\\,'idths in end-glued stock offered in 1x4 through 1x10, and in

Clear.

The end and edge-glued stock is offered in rvidths from 12" through 48", r,vith a maximum length oI 20'. The stock is first end-glued ancl then edge-glued in orcler to obtain the panel. Panels can l;e S4S through I+", S2S through T/', and S1S-7,/8" (prior to gluing) ttp to 48" in Nidth.

As an example cif nerv products, u'all panels can nor'v be furnished in straight S-foot lengths run T&G VIS in 16 or

24" rvidths. Ir-

\Vith the trend throughout the er-rtire corlntry torvard rnore complete utilization of forest resources, Arcata Redrvood's end and edge-glue installation is evicler,ce of another sal.mili's recovery oi normally unusable t<,ro-narrorv and too-short oieces of lumber.