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INDUSTRIAL
At Maderas Virgilio Pascual, S.L. industry is our focus. We work with radiata pine, a species of wood meant for industrial use, overseeing its processing and conversion, from within the forest to the final product. We have two production teams, one in the forest and one at the mill, both of which rely on advanced technology.
At our sawmill located in Mieres, we have two production lines, one with a double-cut saw and log carriage for trunks of larger dimensions and another high-production line equipped with a canter and double arbour circular saw with telescopic axes for smaller trunks with a dimensional tolerance of +-1mm in our cuts.
RADIATA PINE: OUR MARKET
Our production focuses exclusively on pine and especially on radiata pine, also known as Monterey pine. It is a plentiful, fast growing tree whose characteristics make it very adaptable for industrial use, as it is an impermeable wood with little resin that is easy to process and has short seasoning times.
Widely used in construction, packaging, manufacture of blockboards and glued boards, fiberboards, flooring, furniture making, gardening, paper pulp and carpentry in general.
Description:
- » Whiteness: Yellowish white
- » Heartwood: Yellowish dun to Brown dun
- » Fiber: Straight
- » Grain: Medium to rough
- » Typical defects: Usually healthy, very abundant knots. Young wood and compression wood.
CHARACTERISTICS
PROCESSING
Sawed
Easily
Dried (seasoned)
Quickly. Small risk of checks or deformities.
Planed
Easily
Glued
Easily
Nailed
Easily
Finished
Easily
APPLICATIONS
Construction
Industrial packaging
Blockwood or glued boards
Fiberboards
Flooring
Furniture-making
General carpentry
Gardening
Paper pulp
PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
- Apparent density of 12% humidity: 500 kg/m3
- Dimensional stability
- A stable wood with a volumetric shrinkage coefficient of 0.44 %
- Little tendency to deform with a tangential to radial shrinkage ratio of 1.5%
- Hardness (as per the Chalais-Meudon test) is 2.15, semi-soft wood
MECHANICAL PROPERTIES
- Static bending strength 874 kg / cm2
- Modulus of elasticity 90,000 kg / cm2
- Compression strength 434 kg / cm2
ACROSS INDUSTRIES
Here are some areas where we have extensive experience in pine’s various applications.