Show Keeping Up w h- h cien n erv e Science Service Service Wood Products Are Assigned New NevI Jobs in the tIle Industries By Dy WATSON DAVIS New York Wood Wood is just plain lumber a building ma ma- to most people although although although al al- al- al though they have heard that both the paper upon which newspapers are printed and rayon are made from wood Utilization of wood has many ramifications ramifications ram ram- in modern Industry today But the editors of Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering in a survey survey survey sur sur- vey discover that wood and its products products prod prod- will have many more uses in industry's tomorrow Take the troublesome liquids that result from rom the sulphite pulping process first step toward newsprint anti and rayon Sulphite waste vaste liquor contains lignin partner to cellulose in wood Chemists arc looking for jobs for tor lignin confident that eventually eventually eventually even even- it will be found to be as talented talented talented tal tal- tal- tal chemically and industrially as cellulose In Washington st state the thc sulphite liquor is used instead of oil for tor dressing the dirt rO roads stabilizing stabilizing sta ala the soil and giving a hard free dust-free crust There Is also research research re re- re search looking towards its use as fertilizer Gas From Wood Waste In Europe working wood-working plants make gas from rom wood waste for power pow pow- er purposes and automobiles are fueled by wood-producer wood gas made as you ride with 25 pounds of wood the reported equivalent of a gallon of ot gasoline Germany makes sug sugar sugar actual actual lr-actual actual sweet stuff stuff and and alcohol from wood woodby woodby woodby by two different processes but it is Is' concluded that at this would not be bedone bedone bedone done profitably in hi the United States Then it is possible to squeeze ground sawdust and mill waste into hard dense products that are stronger strong strong- er than the wood that n nature made Inferior softwood lumber can cnn be pressed into hard dense attractive hardwoods and the lumber Industry industry indus- indus try Iry is looking into the commercial possibilities of this tr transformation Awake to the fact that they are arc not limited to the form of wood as produced by the tree useful as that thatis is s lumber companies are Installing their heir own research staffs and scientists scientists are now helping lumberjacks and in one of the oldest of American industries |