Show keeping I 1 ping U up P wi cien biene IV i e 17 scrape er v e a C science service service wood products are arc assigned new jobs in the industries py ity WATSON DAVIS new york wood is just plain lumber a building material to most people pe ople although they have heard that both the paper upon which newspapers are printed and rayon under er things are made from wood utilization of wood has many ramifications in modern industry today but the editors of chemical and metallurgical engineering in a survey discover that wood and its products will have many more uses in Indu tomorrow take the troublesome liquids that result from the sul sulphite phito pulping process first step toward newsprint and royon rayon sulphite waste liquor contains clinin partner to cellulose in wood chemists are arc looking tor for jobs for lignin confident that even dually it will be found to be as aa talented chemically and industrially as cellulose in washington state the sulphite liquor Is used instead of oil for dressing the dirt roads stabilizing bil izing the soil and giving a hard dust free crust there Is also research looking towards its use as fertilizer gas gaa F from ram wood waste in europe woodworking wood working plants make gas from wood waste for power purposes and automobiles are fueled by wood producer gasi gas made as you ride with 25 pounds of wood the reported equivalent of a gallon of ga gasoline soUne germany makes sugar actual sweet stuff and alcohol from wood by two different processes but it Is concluded that this would not bo be done profitably in the united states then it is possible to squeeze ground sawdust and mill waste into hard dense products that are stronger than tho the wood that nature made interior softwood lumber can be pressed into hard dense attractive hardwoods and d the lumber industry is looking into the commercial of this transformation awake to the fact that they are not limited to the form of wood as produced by the tree useful as that is lumber companies are installing their own research staffs and scientists are arc now helping lumberjacks lumber jacks and mill hands in one of the oldest of american industries |