Wood products contribute $4.3 million to the Mississippi economy, but weather, insects and other destructive elements destroy one-tenth of the forest products produced each year.
Wood preservatives are used to protect against losses, but there are environmental issues and toxicity problems associated with these products.
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Part of the damage after Hurricane Katrina roared ashore across the Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005, was 5 million acres of broken timber.
The U.S. Forest Service estimated that the volume of damaged wood across the Southeast was enough to build 800,000 single-family homes.
Researchers at Mississippi State University are measur...
Drying lumber in kilns produces numerous air pollutants, but equipment for real-time measurement of the emissions is not currently available.
A team of researchers at Mississippi State University, however, is developing a new state-of-the-art sensor that monitors air pollution emitted while wood is drying. The MSU scientists are impro...
A Mississippi State professor is a new Fellow of the Society of Wood Science and Technology.
H. Michael Barnes of the university's Forest and Wildlife Research Center recently received the honor by the professional organization for his work in wood preservation and durability, wood treatment and treatment effects on wood properties. <...
Tor P. Schultz of Mississippi State is a new Fellow of the American Chemical Society's Cellulose and Renewable Materials Division.
A professor in the university's Forest and Wildlife Research Center he is being honored by the professional organization for his dedication, leadership and longstanding service to the division.
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Research by Mississippi State University scientists has yielded a new weapon in homeowners' battle with wood-destroying termites.
Terry Amburgey of MSU's Forest Products Laboratory and employees of the U.S. Forest Service were called to Hawaii by the U.S. Navy about 14 years ago to combat infestations of Formosan termites in wooden pol...
A company formed on the discovery of new termite-control technology by a Mississippi State researcher and two doctoral students is the first beneficiary of a university endowment promoting student entrepreneurship.
Created by MSU forest products professor Terry Amburgey and doctoral students Shane Kitchens and Kevin Ragon, TermiSys Tec...
Furniture manufacturers facing stiff global competition from China and other foreign suppliers are turning to Mississippi State researchers for help in meeting the challenge.
"We're helping an industry re-invent itself," said Steve Taylor, interim director of the university's Franklin Furniture Institute and a seasoned business profess...
With just the click of a mouse, furniture manufacturers can "test drive" a management system to make their factories more productive.
A computer simulation training model developed by researchers at Mississippi State University will be demonstrated during a Nov. 15-16 workshop at the Franklin Center on the MSU campus. The Simulating ...
Sweetgum trees are a common sight in forests across the South, but their usefulness in the lumber industry has been limited.
"The sweetgum tree is a species that is underused," said Rubin Shmulsky, forest products associate professor in Mississippi State University's Forest and Wildlife Research Center. "Sweetgum lumber is prone to war...
H. Michael Barnes of Mississippi State is a new Fellow of the International Academy of Wood Science.
A professor in the university's Forest and Wildlife Research Center, he is being honored by the professional organization for his work in wood preservation and durability, wood treatment, and treatment effects on wood properties.
...As Gulf Coast homeowners engage in the post-Katrina rebuilding process, a team of Mississippi State wood protection specialists is urging them to "think beyond bleach and water."
While that tried-and-true combination has its place, university scientists also are recommending a borate supplement with mold-controlling agents prior to han...
Mississippi State graduate students from Philadelphia, Flowood and Wiggins swept top honors for research presentations at the 48th annual meeting and technical conference of the Mississippi Water Environment Association.
A total of 12 from the Starkville university and the universities of Louisiana at Lafayette and Alabama-Tuscaloosa m...
Most homeowners go to a lot of trouble and expense to keep termites away. A group of Mississippi State University scientists, however, is inviting the ravenous Formosan subterranean termite to come and stay for dinner.
A field test at the McNeill unit of the Mississippi Agricultural and Forestry Experiment Station in Pearl River County ...
Lean production may help eliminate lean times for Mississippi's furniture manufacturers.
Lean production is an engineering term for the ability to produce more with less and scientists in Mississippi State University's Institute of Furniture Manufacturing and Management are helping implement lean systems in the state's furniture manufacturi...
Two internationally recognized Mississippi State scholars--one in forest products and the other in environmental health sciences--are co-winners of the university's 2005 Ralph E. Powe Research Excellence Award.
Forestry products professor H. Michael Barnes and environmental health sciences professor Janice E. Chambers share this y...
A specialized training program offered next month by Mississippi State will help state manufacturers incorporate the proven concepts of lean production into their daily operations.
Coordinated by the university's Institute of Furniture Manufacturing and Management in cooperation with the Division of Academic Outreach and Continuing Ed...
A Nov. 10 conference at Mississippi State University addressed the global and competitive environments for furniture producers.
Titled "Competitive Strategies for the Furniture Industry: Emerging Issues in a Global Environment," the 8 a.m.-3:30 p.m. gathering was held at the university's Franklin Center for Furniture Manufacturing. The ...
Two complementary Mississippi State research efforts are seeking to capitalize on the energy potential of plant materials called biomass.
A new university project seeks to develop wood preservative systems and fuel from the small-diameter pine trees that traditionally are thinned from larger pine stands.
A Forest and Wildli...
Governor Haley Barbour brought job creation "majic" to North Mississippi. The Governor, who has made job creation one of his administration's top priorities, announced a Make-A-Job Impact Center (MAJIC) grant award to Mississippi State University. The award is one of 11 MAJIC grants awarded statewide to stimulate small business and rural entrep...
A gift from the Weyerhaeuser Co. Foundation is helping Mississippi State's Institute of Furniture Manufacturing and Management deliver educational programs to the state's furniture manufacturers.
A $25,000 grant will provide distance-learning equipment and technologies for the university's Franklin Center that officially opened in Janu...
A Mississippi State program that applies research and technical assistance to improve the international competitiveness of the state's $4 billion furniture industry is receiving an award from the Southern Growth Policies Board.
The university's Institute of Furniture Manufacturing and Management is being honored with the 2004 Southern ...
A Mississippi State symposium on factory-built housing Thursday [March 11] will explore emerging construction technologies that could reshape the state's forest products industry and spur economic development.
"Factory-built housing represents the future for the forest products-based industries," said forest products department head Li...
In Friday [Jan. 23] dedication ceremonies at Mississippi State, Gov. Haley Barbour cited the new campus research center as an example of universities helping businesses become better.
Barbour joined MSU President Charles Lee and other state and university officials to open the Franklin Center for Furniture Manufacturing and Management....
Terry Amburgey wants to build his dream house and he's looking for a perfectly awful site—preferably one on sloping ground with plenty of natural potential for drainage and foundation problems.
Forget that real estate nonsense about location, location and location. The Mississippi State professor is looking for trouble, trial and tribu...
The USS Cairo's voyage to the bottom of the Yazoo River more than 140 years ago was only the beginning of a battle for survival the resurfaced Civil War gunboat is fighting today against the ravages of time.
In a modern-day struggle to prevent the aged oak vessel's destruction by rain, rust, termites, and birds, the National Park Servi...
A new demonstration plant unveiled Friday [Dec. 12] at Mississippi State has the potential to stimulate alternative, profitable markets for small-diameter trees thinned from pine plantations.
Through a partnership with TimTek Australia Ltd., scientists at the university's Forest and Wildlife Research Center will demonstrate technologi...
Ensuring that newly constructed homes have a chance to survive to a ripe old age is the goal of a recently established collaboration at Mississippi State.
A joint endeavor among several campus units, the university's new effort in Southern climatic housing research is providing an organized approach to developing, testing and transfer...
The research report of a Mississippi State doctoral student in forest resources is being praised by an international body.
M. Sridhar Balaji Bhaskar's evaluation of the use of ferns to extract metals from contaminated soils recently earned first-place honors from the Society of Wood Science and Technology. A native of India, he was amo...
Lean production—an engineering term for the ability to produce more with less—is the subject of a new book co-authored by a Mississippi State faculty member.
Associate professor Steve L. Hunter of the university's Forest and Wildlife Research Center has collaborated with J. T. Black on a reference work titled "Lean Manufacturing System...
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