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:: Saturday, March 12, 2005 ::
Softwood Plywood Industry Celebrates 100th Anniversary CNW Telbec
The idea of using wood veneers to achieve special effects and to increase wood's natural strength and stiffness is almost as old as civilization. Ancient Egyptian and Chinese furniture, built with wood veneers, is displayed in museums. The English and French are reported to have worked wood on the general principle of plywood in the 17th and 18th centuries. And historians credit Czarist Russia for having made forms of plywood prior to the 20th century.
Early modern-era plywood was made of hardwoods and generally was used in decorative applications. But then in 1905, Portland Manufacturing Company, a small wooden box company along the shore of the Willamette River in Portland, Ore., produced what it called '3-ply veneer work' made of ubiquitous Pacific Northwest Douglas-fir. The product was displayed at the World's Fair held in Portland that year to commemorate the arrival of Lewis and Clark in Oregon 100 years earlier.------------------------------------------- posted 12:18 PM :: reference link ::
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