Weyerhaeuser Company Limited

Weyerhaeuser Nr Company

Alkiviadis G Dimakis

Jack G Winterowd

David W Park

Frank R Hunter

Erik M Parker

Glen D Robak

Travis E Bjorkman

Ronald C Wilderman

John S Selby

Richard E Wagner

John W Kerns

Derik Rieger

A building product having improved fire resistance by virtue of solid fire-resistant cladding material attached to at least a portion of one or more surfaces of the building product. The solid fire-resistant cladding material includes wood fiber and binder. The building product can be a wood-based building product, and can be in the form of an I-joist. When an I-joist is used, the solid fire-resistant cladding material can be attached to, for example, the web of the I-joist.

Building products with fire-resistant claddings

The invention is a method for producing flitches prepared from roundwood logs, a method for the manufacture of wood slices or slats from the flitches, and methods of combining the strips into composite lumber products. The methods are based in part on the concept of preparing flitches that retain the sweep or natural longitudinal curvature of the log and slicing or sawing around the sweep to prepare the slats for further conversion into composite lumber products. An opening cut is made in the log essentially following or parallel to the curve of any sweep to divide it into two approximately equal volume pieces. An opposing surfaces is machined parallel to the surface generated by the opening cut to produce a flitch. The flitches are then flattened so that the sweep curvature is made planar. They are then sliced or sawn parallel to the now planar surface to produce slats. The natural surface of the log is preferably retained on the sides of the flitches. Slats may then be edged and adhesively combined in various ways to produce composite lumber products. The method achieves an especially high yield from raw logs of products that simulate solid sawn lumber in appearance, properties, and ease of use.

Method of producing wood strips for conversion into composite lumber

Wood veneers having enhanced strength and/or stiffness, wood products made therefrom, and methods for manufacturing such veneers and wood products are disclosed. A treated veneer having enhanced strength and stiffness has a population of compacted wood cells extending across at least a portion of the length and width dimensions and into the thickness dimension of the veneer to confer an increased density level, and thus increased strength and/or stiffness levels, to the veneer. Interspersed in the compacted wood cells is a non-saturating loading level of a cured rigid thermoset material which maintains compaction of the compacted cells even after prolonged soaking in water. The preferred loading level is just what is required to maintain compaction of the cells. The preferred thermoset material is polyurea which is formed from a polyisocyanate resin applied to at least one major surface of the veneer followed by hot-pressing the veneer. The strength and/or stiffness increase, compared to untreated veneer, is about 10 to 150 percent. Treated veneers can be made into various multiple-ply wood products such as laminated veneer lumber and plywood, thereby providing a way to convert relatively weak lumber from fast-grown trees into premium-grade construction material.

Wood veneers and products therefrom having enhanced strength and

An insulating sheathing panel has an insulating core, such as foam, sandwiched between PMDI impregnated cover sheets. The resulting panels offer structural reinforcement as well as insulating qualities to a building framework.

Multi-functional exterior structural foam sheathing panel

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Federal Way, WA, United States of America

Alkiviadis G Dimakis