Sawmill Wastage Seen As Field for Manuiacture

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 37, 6 November 1937, Page 18

Sawmill Wastage Seen As Field for Manuiacture

, VANCOUyER— ?Conservation of forest ie30urces by' using waste material was advanced as a practical poliey — soon to become a necessity — by Dr. HaTold Hibbert, .McGill University celluluose expert, . who addressed the Canadian Chemical Association liere recently. • ■ Such a poliey, said Dr. Hibbert, would have the txiple advantages of preventing -waste, ' creating new pro-* ducts, and providing employment. He visualized tires made -from rayon, floor coverings manufactured out of sawdust, wall" boards made from- shavings and otber mill ' waste, industrial alcohol distiUed from the wood unused*in the manufacture of paper. . "In view of.the rapidly increasing world demand for forest products, it is the duty . of governments to se£ that forest conservation becomes a vital issue in ■ the present * generation, ' ' said Dr. Hibbert. "It is not to be imagined," he continued, "that the end of such development has arrived, but-rather that these processes represent merely the « beginning of a new technology in which the' plasticization of wood will open a vast field for fhe manui" lure of new products. * 'At least 50 poi- cent of the yroo'd used in the manufacture of paper is wasted at present/' Dr. Hibbert concluded. "Industrial alcohol could be distilled from this residue. Plastic materials for use in the construetion industries, made from such odds and ends as sawdust and ehips, are stronger and .better than the original wood and can be perfectly adapted for build-' ing purposes. "

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