Hope has been restored to the wood carving industry in Ghana with the installation of a 10,000-dollar Solar Kiln Dryer for wood carvers at the Aburi Industrial Centre (AIC) in the Akuapem South ...

Lumber drying is an attractive valued-added business with plenty of opportunities for well run, small- and medium-sized drying operations. The most important issue is the cost of drying we dry lumber ...

Pakistan Forest Institute (PFI) Peshawar has developed a state of the art, Solar Kiln (SK) on experimental basis for drying different sizes and types of wood sleepers in economical budget besides ...

Oftentimes, hardwood lumber drying begins with exposure to an uncontrolled outside environment in a process called air drying. At times, loss of quality in this process can be in excess of 10 percent.