Wood processing

Wood processing is an engineering discipline comprising the production of forest products, such as pulp and paper, construction materials, and tall oil. Paper engineering is a subfield of wood processing.

Wood processing produces additives for further processing of timber, wood chips, cellulose and other prefabricated material.

Processing strategies

Typical products in wood processing are:

• from pulp

• craftliner
• cellulose
• paper,

• as engineered wood

• plywood
• MDF
• Oriented strand board

• as chemicals

• tar
• tall oil
• wood fuel
• phenoles
• pinenes
• pine soap

• as timber

• of residuals from timber processing or as first step of mass processing

• wood chips
• bark chips
• wood pellets
• wood shavings

See also

• International Wood Products Journal