WWP February 1999

Some Cutting-Edge Advice for Optimizing Wood Yields : Cutting tool experts slice right to the point about improving yields when machining solid wood. - Feb. 1999

The Titanic Syndrome, Part 2 : Identifying production and profit leaks leads to making the necessary corrections that will help shore up profits. - Feb. 1999

Lumber Company Tracks Wood Wirelessly : An automated data collection tracking system incorporating bar coding replaces counting inventory by hand. - Feb. 1999

Chenchen is a wood that has been gaining in popularity but is still not widely known. Part of the problem may be that this African wood is known by so many different names. Antiaris and kyenkyen are the most commonly used, but bonkonko, kirundu, oro, ogiovu, ako, andoum, tsangu, akeche, mkuzu, mlulu, and mumaka are also used in various parts of the world.