Woodchipping

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Woodchipping

Woodchipping is the act and industry of chipping wood for pulp or processed wood products.

Timber is converted to woodchip

Woodchip

Woodchip may refer to:* the product of Woodchipping* Woodchips, a solid-biomass fuel* Ingrain wallpaper...
s and sold, primarily, for paper manufacture. Forestry practices such as short rotation coppice

Short rotation coppice

Short Rotation Coppice is coppicing grown as an energy crop. This woody solid biomass can be used in applications such as heating, electric power generating stations, alone or in combination with other fuels....
are the usual methods adopted as a source of wood but old growth forest

Old growth forest

Old growth forest is a type of forest that has attained great age and so exhibits unique biology features.Old growth forests typically contain large live trees, large dead trees , and large logs, as well as many other common characteristics representative of forests in general....
s are also used.

Uses of wood chips includes the manufacture of particle board

Particle board

Particle board, or particleboard, is an engineered wood product manufactured from wood particles, such as wood chips, sawmill shavings, or even saw dust, and a synthetic resin or other suitable binder, which is pressed and extrusion....
(or chip board

Chipboard

Chipboard can refer to:* A type of paperboard generally made from reclaimed paper stock ; the term generally used in the US.* Particle board, the term generally used in the UK....
) and other engineered wood

Engineered wood

Engineered wood, also called composite wood, man-made wood or manufactured wood, includes a range of derivative wood products which are manufactured by binding together the strands, particles, wood fibre, or wood veneer of wood, together with adhesives, to form composite materials....
s, mulch

Mulch

In agriculture and gardening, is a protective cover placed over the soil, primarily to modify the effects of the local climate. A wide variety of nature and Synthetic fiber materials are used....
and fuel

Wood fuel

Wood fuel is wood used as fuel. The combustion of wood is currently the largest use of energy derived from a solid fuel biomass. Wood fuel can be used for cooking and heating, and occasionally for fueling steam engines and steam turbines that electricity generation....
.