While sustainably-grown wood can be an economical and eco-friendly building material, its relatively low tensile strength limits its potential applications. That could soon change, however, thanks to ...

OSU professor Fred Kamke has partnered with Corvallis Tool Company for years to develop his Viscoelastic Thermal Compression technology. The company will help Kamke test the market potential of the ...

Made from traditional wood, engineered wood is often seen as a renewable replacement for traditional building materials like steel, cement, glass and plastic. It also has the potential to store carbon ...

IWF 2024 Challengers Award winner Current Composites Inc. Liberty Wood is a compressed wood made from 1/16″ thick birch veneer and a phenol-based resin system, offering durability, dimensional ...

Is your backyard setup in need of an upgrade? We’ve got a Walmart grill deal you can’t afford to miss. The PARGRILL Wood Pellet Grill & Smoker is now half-off during Walmart’s Memorial Day Sale.

Steel is known as a very hard material, but there is a method published in science journal nature to create a material that is stronger than steel by "the process of pulverizing and compressing wood".

Researchers genetically modified poplar trees to produce high-performance, structural wood without the use of chemicals or energy intensive processing. Researchers at the University of Maryland ...

A new peer-reviewed study quantifies broadly for the first time the air pollution and public health impacts across the United States from both manufacturing wood pellets and burning them for energy.

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