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Columbia Forest Products is excited to announce a digitized version of our popular Hardwood Plywood Grading Guide that until now has only been available in-print! The digitized guide doesn’t replace the print version but rather offers an easy to use desktop and mobile option for your viewing convenience! Click the guide icon below to access […]

How would you like to have a nice, easy to read publication at your fingertips that would provide explanations, photographs, illustrations, and a glossary to help you translate the ANSI/HPVA HP-1 Standards©?  You may recall that Volume 8 in our series of WoodWorks Newsletters addressed the Standards with the intent to review its colorful history […]

Wood is a “hygroscopic” material.  Simply put, that means it freely gives off or takes on water as conditions around it change.  Both wood and air have some amount of water in them.  Water tends to move quite freely from the “wetter” of the two to the “drier.” Water in air is expressed as humidity, […]

Columbia Forest Products new Hardwood Plywood Grading Guide provides and easy to use desk reference for detailed, practical, information and guidance on wood veneer characteristics plus industry-standard grading table for woodworkers and specifiers. The Grading Guide is written by Ang Schramm, also author of The Complete Guide to Hardwood Plywood and Face Veneer, covers a […]