Production, Marketing and Use of Finger-Jointed Sawnwood: An Overview

Abstract

The demand for methods of end jointing sawn timber seems to have developed in parallel in several countries over recent years. This development may be due to several reasons, such as a wish for longer lengths, a growing tendency to deliver precut timber of exact lengths to the consumer and to a certain extent also a possibility of upgrading timber by cutting out defects and jointing the pieces together. A very important factor has been, however, that the method of finger-jointing, which was known for a long time and used for jointing furniture parts, making skis etc., had developed to a stage where it could possibly be used for sawnwood for structural purposes.