Department of Forestry Fact Sheet FORFS 15-02
Products Made From Wood
Terry Conners Cooperative Extension Service Department of Forestry University of Kentucky [email protected]
Original list created from a number of other lists, with additions Corrections and Additions will be welcomed!
Solid Wood Products
Lumber and plywood to build new Stair rails homes End tables Doors Coffee tables Window frames and sills Beds Flooring Bookcases Handrails Desks Stairs Kitchen cabinets I-joists Picture frames LVL (laminated veneer lumber) Nightstands Parallel strand lumber Bureaus Finger-jointed lumber Fireplace mantels Machine stress-rated lumber Sculptures and carvings Coat racks Landscape timbers iPhone cases Highway guard rails Furniture Snowshoes Dining room tables and Toothpicks chairs Match sticks Upholstered furniture Chopsticks frames Shutters Rocking chairs Baseball bats Stools Canoe paddles and oars Musical instruments: Toilet plungers Guitars Medicine cabinets Pianos Parallel bars Organs and organ pedals Vineyard stakes Hammer dulcimers Toys such as wooden blocks Mountain dulcimers Rulers Oboes Birdhouses Bagpipes Fencing, fence posts and rails Ukuleles Firewood Banjos Fishing boats Clarinets Tall ships Flutes/Fifes Rowboats Mandolins Ladders String bass Hockey sticks Violins, violas Dog houses Violin bows Pallets Cellos Particleboard Bassoons Medium density fiberboard (MDF) Drums (used in kitchen cabinets and Drum Sticks furniture panels, for example) Tambourines Hardboard Wood blocks Garage doors Wooden spoons Gazebos Speaker cabinets Hot tubs and spas Amplifier cabinets Lath Metronomes Trellises Xylophones Kitchen utensils Harmonicas Pencils Stage flooring Ping Pong paddles Backyard weathervanes Golf tees Caskets Animal bedding Sandboxes and Backyard play sets Railroad ties Charcoal Seesaws Tool handles Model airplanes Wooden tools Coffins Biltmore sticks Brush handles Log scale sticks Cable reels Toolboxes Canes Mallets Cedar chests Marking/mortise gauge Cedar closet lining Activated charcoal Duck decoys Church pews and altars Beer clarifier Closet rods Humidors Barrels Shoe soles and heels Crutches Easels Docks Kite struts Decks Christmas trees Kitchen cabinets Windmills Ferryboats Scythes Gazebos Corn cribs Grandfather clocks Baker’s peels Truck and trailer flooring Barns Mouldings and baseboards Home greenhouses Paneling Frying pan and pot handles Picnic tables Cider presses Pilings for building construction Light switch covers Popsicle sticks Award plaques Porch swings Dollhouses Produce crates and boxes Wooden steering wheels Propeller shaft bearings for ships Bar tops Rocking horses Clipboards Shingles Cooling towers House siding Curtain rods Putty-type of wood filler Boomerangs Tongue depressors Gavels Totem poles Pulpits and podiums Sleds Buttons Salad bowls and serving ware Stadium seating Telephone poles Cutting boards Wheelbarrow handles Broom handles Wooden nickels Stirrups Pegboard Saunas Ship masts and yardarms Surveyor stakes Toilet seats Yardsticks Piano keys (wooden) Game pieces Pinewood Derby cars Croquet sets Clothespins Mousetraps Pool tables Pipes Fireplace mantles Rolling pins Display cases Knife handles Children’s puzzles Woodcut artwork Work benches Merry-go-Round horses Toboggans Birdhouses Bookcases Snowshoes Park benches Woodworking clamps Gun racks and cabinets Spinning wheels Billboards Baskets Snow fences Novelties such as Nutcrackers Trellises Checker sets Tobacco sticks Jewelry boxes Garden stakes and poles Foundry patterns Parallel bars Crates Log houses Garage doors Bowling alley lanes Theatre scenery Bowling pins Gunstocks Railroad crossing gates Beehives Rural bridges Butcher blocks Tent poles Organ pipes Hurdles Crucifixes Lobster pots and floats Drafting tables Wooden matches Ballot boxes Parts of snowboards, skis and Yo-yos skateboards Dice Ventriloquist dummies Silverware chests Name tags Venetian blinds Flagpoles (for smaller flags) Billiard cue sticks Cribs Fuel for meat smokers Police batons Spices and flavorings from woody Planters plants: Dowels Allspice Scaffold planks Annatto Concrete forms Bay leaves Glu-lam beams (used to create Cinnamon long open spaces, as in Cloves churches) Filé (Sassafras leaves, used Excelsior to thicken gumbos) Veneer Juniper berries (gin Bushel baskets flavoring) Pants hangers Mace Kitchen counters Nutmeg Orange blossoms (flavored Doll houses water) Test tube racks Chips for smoking meat Wine racks Sassafras oil is used as a Handrails soap perfume Stake-body truck sides Logs provide nutrients for shiitake Gerbil chew sticks (balsa wood) mushrooms Cutting boards Model airplanes “Biscuits” for wood joining
Products that Used to be Made From Wood (Some of these may still be made from wood for specialty products.)
Water pipes Street paving blocks Bocce balls Rocking horses Commemorative medallions Fun house barrels Tennis rackets Fishing lures Car dashboards Storage battery separators (hard Golf clubs rubber) Conestoga wagons Water tanks Clocks and clock gears Wardrobes/armoires Waterwheels Model “T” coil boxes Printing press type Automobile chassis Printing presses Ironing boards Deckle boxes (frames used to Treenails make paper by hand) Post and beam timber framing Paper presses (to squeeze the water Cabinets for Analytical balances out of handmade paper) Shoe lasts Woodworking planes Radio, television and Cigar store Indians phonograph/stereo cabinets Weaving shuttles and bobbins Butter churns Wooden shoes Harpsichords Bows and arrows Railroad cars Cradles Aircraft propellers and airframes Wooden wheels for automobiles Minesweeper boats, PT boats and wagons Silos Pull toys Fermentation vats Sextants Cigar boxes Racing shells (one to eight-man Spruce gum was used for chewing rowed boats) gum Wringers for washing machines Sassafras tea Telephones Canoes (birch bark canoes had a Wood creosote used to be used as wooden frame, also wood- a laxative, a disinfectant and a canvas canoes) cough treatment (rarely used Automobile tires (used rayon as nowadays). reinforcing cord) Woodworking tools Shoe pegs (used to fasten shoe Planes soles to the leather uppers) Carpenter levels Dragon’s blood (from fruit of Carpenter rules Asian tree) was used in the Gear shift knobs manufacture of varnishes and Butter molds lacquers Slide rules Dyestuffs (prior to invention of Phonographs synthetic dyes) Bicycles Canada balsam (tree resin) was Traveler’s writing desks used to make microscope Cigar molds slides Artist’s pallets Quinine came from the bark of the Washboards Cinchona tree Skis Willow bark provided the original Water well structures source of aspirin-like Water pump enclosures compounds Wheel chairs Cork used to be the gasket material Candlesticks lining bottle caps Warships Rubber used to be used to Wardrobe trunks waterproof raincoats Maple syrup buckets Molded wooden figurines Abacus Typewriter keys (Celluloid) Pulleys Red elm inner bark used to be Gallows steeped in water to obtain a Milking stools remedy for sore throats Insulator pins Hickory was a part of the Wright Plates and bowls brothers’ airplanes Artificial limbs Cylinder phonograph records used Sled runners to be made from Carnauba wax Iceboxes and refrigerators because it is so hard Gutters Tool handles were made from Limes celluloid as recently as World Bananas War II. Pears Piano keys were once made from Tangerines celluloid as an ivory substitute. Coconuts Dates Grapefruit Things Made from Wood Olives and olive oil that Formerly Were Made Plums from Something Else Figs Fruit juices Paper (used to be made from Carob (a cocoa substitute) cotton and linen rags) Cider Mistletoe (grows as a symbiant on
trees) Non-Wood/Non-Paper Eucalyptus leaves (floral component, also used for Products fragrance) Carnauba wax (from the leaves of Shade! the carnauba palm tree grown Nuts in Brazil). Used in: Cola nuts (Coca-Cola etc.) Shoe polish Almonds Lipsticks Brazil nuts Automotive waxes Cashews Furniture polish Hazelnuts Applied to produce to Pistachios make it look Walnuts appealing in Pecans supermarkets. Hickory nuts Products from Wood Sap or Chestnuts Extractives: Pine nuts Citrus cleaners (oils) Acorns (decorative uses) Lime scent for aftershave Fruits Sandalwood fragrance for Apples soap and incense Avocadoes Maple syrup Coffee Rubber Peaches Rubber products Oranges Golf balls Lemons Tires Marine and underwater Expansion joint filler cable insulation Insulation corkboard Adhesives Fishing buoys and floats Combs (hard rubber) Cork washers Latex gloves and other Hot pads barrier-type Musical instrument parts medical products (e.g., stoppers for organ Rubber belts pipes) Rubber hoses Laboratory rings for Gaskets glassware Shoe soles Bathmats (made of Rubber boots granulated cork) Rubber balls “Peas” for whistles Turpentine (most of it Cricket balls comes from wood Corks for pop guns pulping operations) Foosball (table football) Rosin balls Pine needle extract (an anti- Hockey balls inflammatory) Baseballs (centers) Rosewood oil (various Facings for some ping pong medicinal uses) paddles Taxol (anti-cancer drug) Cork shoe soles Frankincense Roofing Myrrh Tea tree oil (antibiotic and Products that Used to be antifungal oil) Made From Cork Benzoin gum (Some of these may still be made Gum Arabic as specialty products.) Corks (the primary use for cork: ~17 billion sold each year, Bottle cap gaskets for carbonated compared to 400 million for beverages plastic stoppers (2001 Life jackets (until 1857 – now statistics)) mostly polystyrene) Other cork products Life preservers (polystyrene now) Coasters Fishing rod handles (now mostly Flooring Hypalon®) Dartboards Sheet insulation (e.g., for Wall and ceiling tiles refrigerators) Sanding blocks Corkboards Rocket nosecones (a cork-ceramic Baking cups composite) Coupons US currency is not made from Paper and Fluff Products wood pulp – it’s made from cotton and flax fibers Computer and copy paper Coffee filters Books and book paper Facial and bath tissue Book marks Packaging for facial and bath Envelopes tissue (the boxes and Checkbooks wrappers) Cook books Napkins Recipe cards Sanitary and surgical absorbent Bulk mail products Bills Disposable diapers Toll booth tickets Kites Instruction manuals Movie tickets Packaging cards for blister-packed Classroom handouts and tests products Catalogs Calendars Game boards Diplomas and Certificates Masking tape Report cards Crepe paper Lamp shades Birthday and Christmas wrapping Book covers paper Posters Stickers Identification badges Coloring books Newsletters Flashlight battery labels Salt boxes Paper dolls Moving boxes Baseball cards Shipping boxes Tracing paper Sugar and flour bags Election ballots Can labels (except for tomato cans Milk cartons for some unknown reason!) Egg cartons Bottle and jar labels Postage stamps Cereal boxes Paper towels Shelf labels in grocery stores Playing cards Adhesive-backed labels Building insulation, loose and in Receipts panel form Menus Grocery bags Poster board Cat litter (from recycled paper, non-clay types) Paper plates Food additive (non-digestible Paper cups cellulose dietary fiber). Used File folders in diet drink products, food Post-It Notes® (Made in texture enhancer. (In the late Kentucky!) 1970s, a “diet bread” listed CD labels cellulose fiber from wood as DVD and VCR tape packaging one of its ingredients.) Magazines Butcher paper Magazine card inserts Musical instrument cases Postcards (“cardboard” type, as for Maps guitars) Fast food packaging Phone books Frozen food boxes Photographs Construction paper Newspapers Kraft paper (wrapping paper) Tickets Multi-wall sacks for birdseed and Business cards pet foods Roofing felt Price tags Ice cream containers Sandpaper Pizza boxes Seed starter blocks Disposable tablecloths Loudspeaker cones Retail software boxes Origami paper Corrugated cartons Tea bags are usually not made Ceiling tiles from wood pulp – they are Absorbent socks for oil spills mostly made from abaca, also Absorbent liners for supermarket known as Manila hemp meat trays Tea bag tags and wrappers are Stationery and notebook paper made of wood-based paper NCR (no carbon required) paper Cigarette papers and vacuum Tax forms cleaner bags are made from Marriage licenses, birth and death hemp or flax fiber! certificates and other civil Bible paper documents Wallpaper Racing forms Tubes for bathroom tissue, paper Programs for sporting events towels, wrapping paper Fiber filler for plastics: Artificial snow (paper snow) Tool handles Wax paper Football helmets Confetti Buttons Admixture with sprayed-on grass Eyeglass frames seed Ball point pens Electronics cases (televisions, Bumper stickers (now made out of calculators, computers) vinyl except for the peel-off Loudspeakers paper on the backside) Automobile parts (e.g., door Computer punch cards (now also panels) entirely electronic!) Packaging Trays Thermoformed products like Products Made from Wood- gun cases Derived Chemicals Marine/Trailer flooring (Processed products, not oils or Wood-plastic composite latex, etc. Some cellulose products lumber: may derive from other cellulose Garden benches sources such as cotton linters, Picnic tables depending on economics and Planters manufacturer.) Fencing Decking Textiles (Rayon, Tencel™) Signs Cellulose acetate (wrapping and Parking stops for parking lots photographic film) Spare tire covers Cellulose nitrate (former Melamine paper-faced board composition of movie film, except that it was very flammable and unstable with Things that Formerly Were age) Made from Wood-based Celluloid (rarely produced Paper nowadays, except for guitar picks and pick guards, fountain Oil cans pens, accordion cases and Candy bar wrappers ping-pong balls. Formerly used Grocery bags (some still are made for costume jewelry, clocks, from paper!) etc.) Library catalog cards (supplanted Cellulose acetate and cellulose by electronic computer files) nitrate are both used in Drinking straws adhesives and lacquers. Shotgun cartridges CMC (carboxymethyl cellulose) is Carbon paper (mostly obsolete used as a food thickener and product) texturizer for products such as ketchup and ice cream (depending on manufacturer); also used to stabilize oil well wood mineral nutrients drilling muds. leftover from pulping Cellulose-based pill fillers operations. This is used in Cellophane (wrapping material, baby foods, imitation bacon, also used for Easter basket cereals, baked goods, etc. grass!) Tannin (used in natural tanning Toothpaste additives (e.g., process, less common than cellulose gum) formerly) “Plastic” twine Carnauba wax is commonly used Hardhats and sports helmets as a pill coating. Cigarette filters (cellulose acetate Liquid Smoke® fibers) Linoleum (oxidized linseed oil Cellulose industrial filters mixed with pine resin and Sausage casings wood flour) Cellulose sponges Acetic acid (produced by Artificial vanilla flavoring (by- distillation of wood) product of Kraft process for Biofuels from wood distillation pulping wood) Liquid nail polish Cleaning compounds Shaving cream (tea tree oil, Chewing gum is a combination of camphor, etc., varies by natural rubber (especially manufacturer) chicle, from the Sapodilla trees Suntan lotion (e.g., almond oil from Central and South (emollient); clove bud oil America) with some synthetic (scent); cocoa butter latexes to extend the natural (emollient)) latex supply. Other wood Ink (incorporate tall oil rosins from chemicals such as rosin esters hard pines) and terpenes are also common Tall oil fatty acids and derivatives ingredients. are used as: Additive to unfired ceramics to PVC stabilizers give them strength Synthetic lubricants Fungicides Polyamides Hair spray Corrosion inhibitors Cosmetics – including thickeners Soaps such as methyl cellulose and Detergents methyl hydroxy ethyl cellulose Emulsifiers Methanol (used in colognes, Rubber processing additives solvents) Asphalt additives Torula yeast (a food supplement) Concrete additives is grown on wood sugars and Epoxy additives Plasticizers Metalworking chemicals Oil field chemicals Rosin-based adhesive products
Also see the list of products from Extractives, above
To grow a pound of wood, a tree uses 1.47 pounds of carbon dioxide and gives off 1.07 pounds of oxygen.
The following information is from the website of the Temperate Forest Foundation {http://www.forestinfo.org/Discover/facts.htm#Recycling}:
• In 1995, some 1.6 billion seedlings were planted in the U.S. - more than 5 new trees a year for every American. Millions of additional trees were naturally reforested.
• Private owners account for 59% of the nation's 490 million acres of commercial forestland; government owns 27%; and the forest industry owns 14%.
• Each person in the United States consumes approximately 675 pounds of paper a year.
• On the average, everyone uses the equivalent of a tree, 18 inches in diameter - 100 foot tall, every year. That's 80 cubic feet!
The United States is a wood-rich country; people in the United States (on average) use about three times as much wood each day as people in the rest of the world. One of the most common uses for wood around the world is for fuel!
And finally, a surprise for (almost) all Kentuckians:
3M Corporation’s popular product, Post-It Notes, are manufactured exclusively in Cynthiana (Harrison County), Kentucky!