Announces Ne* Plynrood Product

While small production runs now are being made o{ Welchboard in typical four-by-eight foot panels, the product passed the experimental stage long ago, and expansion of manufacturing facilities is being undertaken.

The product already has attracted attention for interior and exterior walls of homes, for construction of commercial refrigerators, for counter tops and fine cabinets. Any thickness of plywood can be utilized as a base for the "extra layer" of wood flour aggregate but a typical thickness of plywood used is /(-inch "rough" or unsanded. Over this is applied a covering approximately I/16-inch thick of the Welch-devised material.

Culminating years of intensive research at developing an improved surface for plywood, A. R. Wuest, president of West Coast Plywood Co., Aberdeen, Wash., has unveiled an entirely new panel product already in limited production and scheduled for volume output within six months.

De;ignated as Welchboard for the firm official u,ho discovered and developed the material and the process for its manufacture, the panel actually is plywood rvith a smooth, relatively hard, durable surface added. A. R. Welch, vice president of the company and the inventor o{ the product, describes it as "plywood plus."

In surface appearance, the new material is about the color of the wood from which it is made-light tan in the case cf Douglas fir-but uniform and r,vithout grain pattern as the covering ply is comprised of minute u'ood fibers inseparably bound together.

It is an aclvanced panel material having all the inherent strength and other physical properties of plywood but with a superior, completely smooth surface as a base for the finest of finishes. The extra layer is formed of pulverized wood fiber, impregnated rvith resin and compressed under heat :rnd pressure.

Corrservation of raw material is achieved as the layer bonded to the plywood is manufactured almost entirely from clean wood waste at the factory that otherwise would be discarded or burned. The volume of panels prodqqpd can be increased perhaps 25 per cent over that previously obtained from the same amount of raw material (logs).

This cut-qwcy atrmple ol the newly-perlected "Welchboard" revecrls consiruclion ol the improved plywood product. Note the "extrc ply" which lorms tr smooth, hcrd, durcble surltrce. Il is nanulqctured lrom pulverized wood waste bound togeiher with wclerprool regin. The bqee ig 7g-inch plywood. Photo crbove shows alternqting grtrin direction.

Th.: surfacing is bonded permanently to the plywood by "setting" or polymerizing the material in the hot presses used in the manufacture of plywood. Pressing time is less than five minutes or about the same as in the manufacture of plywood. The two operations are soon to be combined for production efifrciency.

Only exterior type plywood is utilized as a base and the high grade resin used as a binder in the surface likewise is waterproof. Accordingly, the finished panel of Welchboard is suitable for outdoor as well as indoor use although it is intended to be painted or given other suitable finish. It will withstand repeated wettings, long-time soaking or even boiling.

All the wood fiber for the smooth, dense surfacing is re.covered from factory waste. All that is added to this wood. which though finely ground is not changed from its ori.ginal form, is a small quantity of high quality resin binder.

When eventually marketed, Wellchboard will demand a price above that of quality grades of Douglas fir plywood, a differential in keeping with the added properties it gives the material in painting and finishing. 'Iests indicate that the surface will take the place of two to four base paint coats.

Because the base of Welchboard is real Douglas fir plywood and the surface as well is wood fiber predominately, the panel can be cut and fastened with ordinary carpentry tools.

Licensing of other plywood manufacturers to produce Welchboard will be handled by the Plywood Research Foundation of Tacoma, Wash., a non-profit research organization set up two years ago by the plywood industry to work on elimination of waste in plywood production and development of new products. Several of the other plywood manufacturers of the area are preparing for production of the materibl at an early date.

AFPI Eighth Advertising Mat Book Now Available

Containing 19 new mat features on tree-growing and forest-protection subjects, the American Forest prodpctsl Industries' eight advertising proof book is now being distributed.

The new publication illustrates four editorial mats, a feature offered this year for the first time, as well as 15 new advertising layouts and eight selected reprints from previous editions. It is being mailed to publishers, advertisers.end forestry agencies in all 48 states as an aid to the preparation of special forestry and forest products editions of nervpapers, trade publications and house organs.

Forest ownership, national tree-growing acreage, forest employment and production, and wood utilization are included in the editorial material while fire prevention and tree-growing are the subject of the advertising proofs.

"Woodie," the forest protection sprite, whose popularity has grown with the last three editions of the publication, is featured in four of the ads. Several layouts are keynoted with the slogan, "Keep America Green,,, while our dependence on the forest for critical materials is highlighted in others.

Last year, AFPI filled requests for nearly 14,000 newspaper advertising mats which were sponsored in local areas by merchants, financial institutions, professional men and community organizations, as well as the forest industries ihemselves. Copies of the new book may be obtained by writing the American Forest Products Industries, fnc., 1319 18th Street, N. W., Washington 6, D. C. Mats of all subjects in the proof book are available without charge.

Appoints " Stanton for Snark" Committee

"Because we feel Roy Stanton is the logical leader for Hoo-Hoo International next year, and for the past several years he has devoted much of his time to promote Club activities throughout the West, are only two of our many reasons for proposing his name and backing his nomination for Snark of the Universe," declared R. S. "Bob" Osgood, Vicegerent Snark of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo district. The Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club is sponsoring his election, and his candidacy has been endorced by the other California Hoo-Hoo organizations. The annual convention will be held in Spokane, Wash., next September.

Roy, prominent Los Angeles lumberman, is president of E. J. Stanton & Son. He is a past Vicegerent Snark of the Los Angeles district and a former president of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club, an alumnus of Stanford University, and is active in many fraternal organizations. His entire business career has been spent in the lumber business, and he has the interests of the industry at heart.

Vicegerent Snark Bob Osgood has appointed the fol-

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Retcril Ycnds Give Mcncgement Vote oI Confidence

"Management of the retail yards conducted by the Hammond Lumber Company at Healdsburg, Sonoma, and Boyes Springs, Calif., was given a vote of confidence by the employees at an election held May 2," according to a statement issued by the company.

"The employees voted 14 to I against being represented by Truck Drivers and Helpers Union Local 624, A.F.L., of Santa Rosa.

"The union had asked the company to negotiate a contract Tor the yards at Healdsburg, Sonoma and Boyes Springs, claiming it represented a majority of the employees. The company refused to concede this. The union then petitioned the National Labor Relations Board for an election.

"Of 16 eligible voters 15 cast ballots. One voted for the Union and fourteen against."

W. R. Burt Enters Wholescle Plyu.rood Field

Wellington R. Burt, for the past three years managing director of the Veriply group known as the Wood-Ply Research Foundation, Chicago, Illinois, has announced his resignation effective June 1, 1947, to enter the plywood wholesale distribution business with headquarters and warehouse at Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Mr. Burt's new company will be known as Burt Forest Products Company. lle was for many years a member of the staff of the National Lumber Manufacturers' Association in Washington, D.C.

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