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Botanical name:
Pinus sylvestris
Growth area:
Northern and Central Europe: Scandinavia
(Finland), the Baltic states (Latvia, Lithuania), Russia, Ukraine and Poland.
Quality:
Grades: A1, A2, A3, A4, B, C and D. Nordic
Timber 1994: A and B, A, B and C. Blue book: Schaalboards, Knot-free three sides, Halvrena side yield,
Halvrena centre yield, Grademix. Green book: O/S, Kwinta and Sexta ,
Schaalboards Halvrena.
Colour of heartwood:
Heartwood is straw yellow to
light brown.
Colour of sapwood:
Sapwood is light to white in
colour.
Mass density:
480-525 kg/m3 16% m/m average.
Grain:
Generally rather straight-grained.
Fissure:
Cuts with embedded heartwood are subject to
extensive fissure. Checks are frequent.
Warping:
Provided the wood was dried properly, it has
only a medium tendency to warping.
Knots:
The knots are generally black and slightly
harder than the surrounding wood.
Bio-substances:
Pine contains resin and freshly
processed pine spreads a characteristic turpentine smell.
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Mould and insects:
Invasion by blue mould often
occurs, in particular in wet wood.
Durability grade:
3 - 4, medium to low durability.
Gluing:
Reasonable to good.
Machining:
Very easy to process with HSS cutting
tools. Rebate cutters must be equipped with pre-cutters in view of splintering.
Cutting tools and machines must regularly be cleaned of resin.
KVT:
Front wall panelling KVT'95, grade B
Dekker range:
Standard sizes in stock: Finger-jointed
/ glued, length 6 m - 72x86 mm (triple
glued) - 72x115 mm (triple glued) - 72x145 mm (triple glued); Non-standard
sizes: Finger-jointed/glued, length 6 m - 72 x 125 mm (5-ply glued) - 95 x 125
mm (5-ply glued) - 72 x 145 mm (5-ply glued). Finger-jointed length 6 m - 63x100 mm - 63x125 mm NB: The pine wood imported by Dekker Hout is in
flawless blocks (in principle sapwood). Due to the strict requirement relating
to front wall panelling, Dekker Hout only supplies pine for indoor
applications, including Dekker Hout's Standard wooden interior door frames and
the pine ‘re-adjustable' frames with fire resistance certificate and pin frames
and beading.
General applications:
Floor parts, rebate panelling,
front wall panelling in the timber industry (must comply with the requirement
of applying only heartwood outside the glass line); furniture industry for the
pale wooden furniture; in the construction industry for renovating front wall
panelling; frames and profiles
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Central Europe 
