ADVISORY COMMITTEE This booklet has been prepared with the cooperation of the following advisory committee interested in the hardwood plywood industry and in the proper and intelligent use of its products. George A. Vehlow, President, Plywood Manufacturers Insti- H. S. Johnson, former Secretary, Plywood Manufacturers C. E. Close, Secretary, Veneer Association, Chicago, Ill. J. C. McCarthy, Secretary, Furniture Manufacturers Association, Chicago, Ill. D. Loren Davis, Louisville, Ky. W. B. Foreman, Elizabeth City, N. C. C. G. Yerkes, Marshfield, Wis. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA FOREWORD Plywood was produced by the Chinese thousands of years ago and is found in the furniture of the ancient Egyptians. Yet it has taken modern ingenuity plus engineering and chemical skill to develop a product capable of meeting the large-scale but exacting requirements of today-a product now used on land, in the air, and on the seas. Such marked advances have been made by the American hardwood plywood industry and the scope of uses of plywood so amplified in the past few years as to justify this publication. The production of hardwood plywood was valued at over $25,000,000 in 1937, according to industrial estimates. Making readily available basic information on the industry is expected to aid materially in the development and promotion of markets both at home and abroad. This report was prepared under the general supervision of P. A. Hayward, Chief of the Forest Products Division of the Bureau. Grateful acknowledgement is made to L. H. Meyer, an authority on the plywood industry, for his valuable collaboration. JAMES W. YOUNG, Director, Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. JUNE 1940. |