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The book deals with the whole gamut of activities involved in forest industries right from lumber technology saw milling types of saws sawing operations and methods of sawing sawmill equipments and layout saw doctoring portable sawmill reconstituted wood products adhesives laminated lumber veneer and plywood particleboard and composite products fibreboard paper and pulp charcoal manufacture wood carbonization and by-products shake and shingle industry further processed wood products complete utilization of wood and biomass to forest products other than timber role of NTFP in national economy policy and future management and international cooperation. A large number of diagrams have been included in the book to illustrate the subject under various conditions. It is a textbook well adapted to forestry courses at the College/University/Professional level as well as to growing number of wood-based industries and wood/timber trade courses. It is useful in sawyers and timber technicians training programmes and in vocational timber industry courses forest utilization and sawmill technicians courses and as a home-study text for students of forestry engineering and architecture etc. It is suitable for in service training classes such as those given by Federal and State Forestry Training Colleges/Schools resource management agencies and private companies dealing with timber industries and non-timber forest products. Also individual forest owners timber and forest produce dealers who seek a better technical grasp of forest-based industries and forest products will find the book useful. About the Author Dr. M. B. Shrivastava obtained his Masters degrees in Soil Conservation and Forestry from Govt. Agricultural College Kanpur in 1965 and Indian Forest College Dehradun in 1967 respectively and Doctor of Forestry from Goettingen University Germany in 1976 working on site productivity appraisal under Prof. Dr. B. Ulrich. He has specialization in forest ecology site sciences vegetation classification and forest typology ecopedology of tropical soils silviculture degraded ecosystem management social and agro-forestry soil science and watershed management forest nutrition forest inventory forest management and working plans. Dr. Shrivastava has 35 years of field experience in varied forestry fields of Western Himalayas; working as a Research Scientist at the Institute of Soil Science and Forest Nutrition (Goettingen University) Germany; teaching at Haryana Agricultural University Hisar and Papua New Guinea University ofTechnology Lae; and as Forestry Consultant to the World Bank Transmigration Project in Sumatra Indonesia Forestry.