PINE LOGS SHIPPED

Waikato Times, Volume 124, Issue 20833, 17 June 1939, Page 12

PINE LOGS SHIPPED

PULPING EXPERIMENTS TESTS IN SWEDISH MILLS By the Rotorua from Auckland last night a shipment of 150 tons of pinus radiata logs from the New Zealand Forest Products, Limited, plantations at Tokaroa. near Putaruru, was made for Sweden, where the logs will be used as material for large-scale pulping experiments. The purpose of the tests, which will be carried out at one of the largest Swedish pulping mills, is lo obtain data for the guidance of the company in the future realisation of its large pine forests. No experiments on a similar scale, it is stated, have yet been made upon New Zealand exotic softwoods, although very comprehensive utilisation tests on native timbers were made some years ago at the Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, Wisconsin, for the State Forest Service. This work was supervised by Mr A. R. Entrican, the department's engineer in forest products, who is now Director of Forestry. The Swedish experiments are intended to establish Hie best methods of pulping New Zealand pinewood for various purposes. The company has already sent its chairman and managing director, Mr I). Henry, on a tour abroad in cornofficer of the Australian Council for Scientific and Industrial Research. They are at present investigating processes and plant employed in America and Europe for the manufacture of timber products, and will be present during the tests that are to be made in Sweden.