Paper has been made from grasses and other non-wood materials for over 1900 years. Wood is a relatively new papermaking fibre, only 100 years old. Today the commercial non-wood pulp production accounts for 6% of the global pulp production. The main source for the raw material is plants of the Gramineae family. Research on nonwood material has concentrated on grasses like Miscanthus, Phalaris, S...

LESS than thirteen years after English government supplanted Dutch the townsfolk of New York were being cared for by at least three doctors, Philip Lane, Daniel De Hart" and Hans Kierstede.2 Two manuscript sources reveal what medicines were in vogue and one manuscript shows that they were imported from London. The documents are certainly among the earliest, if not actually the earliest, evidenc...

Near Infrared (NIR) spectroscopy has been used for timber, pulp and paper applications for over 20 years. Despite a lot of R&D work on solid wood applications for both field and in-process use, the industry has not adopted NIR as a routine technique. Solid wood has proven to be a challenging sample type to analyse in real time by NIR as the modern timber mill processes logs at a very fast rate....

Over the last 15 years, significant number of reports on transparent paper and wood appeared in literature. The light scattering data or transmission are often given to describe optical performance material. In addition, also contains structural information that can be further analyzed based theory. Some re-analyzed herein from analysis point view related phenomena. Quantitative wavelength depe...

Tropical rainforest has more than 3,000 different types of timber species. According to the Forest Research Institute of Malaysia, out of these about 200 species are being used by the timber industry. Among the major timber consumers are housing developers, wood fabricators and furniture manufacturers where the need for recognition of wood species is necessary. Automatic wood recognition has no...