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Drying's new math
Wagner Electronics and UBC have invented a new way to get drying under control.

Wood is good, but it doesn’t always behave. Getting the moisture content in four thousand pieces of lumber in a dry kiln to stack up neatly along a bell-shaped curve is almost impossible for every charge. Sometimes it works but sometimes it doesn’t. Much of the batch will fall into place but when there are renegade pieces with high moisture content, they skew the end results. 
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Achieving full sawmill recovery
Sawmills need to make the most of every log. Color vision technology can help.
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Fingerprints, biometrics, and lumber grading
Lucidyne Technologies’ new “True-Q” system takes advantage of the unique properties of lumber fiber by using a board’s biometric “fingerprint.”
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Meet Microtec
In spite of a tough economy, a new supplier of sawmill scanning and optimization has hung out its shingle in North America.
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Weightless footprint
By Val Maloney
SMART Papers plans to be carbon neutral by late 2009


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Controlling wood dust explosions
A product invented for the dairy industry can help reduce the danger of wood dust explosions.

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