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A REPORT* has been prepared by the Department of Scientific and industrial Research, Forest Products Laboratory Princes Risborough, dealing with the German timber industry during the Second World War. It deals with composite wood manufactures wood bending, pencil manufacture, wood structural research, logging, etc., machinery and equipment, green wood preservatives other than coal tar, coal tar creosote for wood preservation during the War, and chemistry of wood and wood products. Curiously enough, Germany appears to have lagged far behind the United States and Great Britain in the development of many of the above. For example, coal tay creosote was by far the most common wood preservative in Germany prior to 1 940, accounting for more than 90 per cent of wood preservative needs ; during the War, it was absolutely restricted, and German pressure-treating plants were operated with water-borne preservatives such as flunax, basilit, wolman salts and zinc chloride. Flunax, specially prepared for war conditions, replaced creosote for more than 66 per cent of preservatives used.
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German Timber Industry during 1939–45. Nature 164, 527 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164527a0
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