Thursday, March 13, 2008

Pine (Pinus) - Pine

It takes about 1 / 6 of all forest area of Russia and the CIS. The most common Scots pine (P. sylvestris) - Common pine. It should be noted Crimean pine-tree (P. taurica), which differs from wood Scots pine smoloproduktivnostyu high.

Pine wood has a slightly pinkish kernel, which over time becomes reddish-red, broad cosmetics from pink to yellow in color, highly visible annual layers with a clear boundary between the early and late wood, a rather large and numerous moves gum.

Wood medium density (p12 = 500 kg/m3), high strength, rack against decay, are well treated.

It is used in construction, machine-building, furniture production, the railways, in the tare production for mounting mining, etc.

Widely used as a raw material for chemical processing to obtain pulp, fodder yeast; of pine timber in large quantities exported.

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