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Hardwood Record — Veneer & Panel Section 



April 10. 1918 



of one eight-foot rotary machine and one seven-foot, and it is 

 the intention to later add another rotary. The equipment also 

 includes two standard dry kilns, one blower kiln and a Phila- 

 delphia Textile Machinery Company drier. Then in addition to 

 the veneer equipment they have a slack barrel heading plant which 

 is busy at work making heading. The main veneer product of 

 these plants is rotary cut gum, though they have some pine for 

 veneer work too. The heading plant is cutting pine. 



As stated above, the sales end of this undertaking is being 

 handled at Louisville, and the Kentucky Veneer Works people 

 figure that with this equipment and their rotary and machine and 



New Panel Plant Starts Well 



The Inman Veneer and Panel Plant Company, Louisville, Ky., 

 which has for some time been equipping a strictly up-to-date 

 panel plant in Louisville at Twenty-Ninth and Broadway, and has 

 made out of it perhaps one of the most modern panel plants in 

 the country, just got to running good when there came a call 

 for war needs which Involved panel work. 



It has in hand at present certain parts of veneered work for 

 1,300 flying machines and the work is pretty well under way. 

 Airplanes of the type for which they are supplying material 

 saws at Louisville they have one of the heaviest capacity pro- embody twenty-one items In veener work in addition to frames 

 ducing outfits of the country and are prepared to handle a big of other woodwork. And the twenty-one items in this instance 

 volume of business. are divided between the Inman Veneer and Panel Company in 



Geo. L. Kannapell, of the Parkland Veneer Co., who lost his Louisville, and the New Albany Veneering Company. Items one 

 plant at Louisville some time ago in a fire that destroyed the to nine are being made by the New Albany Veneering Company, 

 Parkland Sawmill, is operating a plant at Adams, Tenn., w^hich while items nine to twenty-one are being made by the Inman 

 was a part of and is still operated as the Parkland Veneer Co. Veneer and Panel Company. It is perhaps not advisable to go 

 This is a fiitch-making and dimension stock plant and he has into details as to the items. It can be said, however, that they 



include engine foundations, seat backs, tool boxes, wing panels and 

 quite a lot of purely ply work in veneer, some of which is very 

 thin. 



Their specifications call for yellow poplar centers, the two 

 outsides of mahogany, and in niany cases the stock used is so 

 thin as to practically set new standards in the working of thin 

 veneer in the making of three-ply stock. Some of the three-ply 

 stock must finish dow^n to only I/I6 thick, the poplar centers 

 varying in thickness from eight to the inch to forty-five to the 

 Inch. The mahogany face veneer runs from 15 to 45 to the 

 inch. 



Some idea of what this work means in the utilization of mahog- 

 any can be had from the estimate that the Inman Veneer and 

 Panel Company w^ill require probably 2,000,000 surface feet of 

 mahogany In the completion of the airplane work in hand. 



While specifications for some airplane w^ork seem to call for 

 waterproof glue, in this case the specifications, which are very 

 rigid as to material. Insisting upon poplar centers and mahogany 

 faces, call for a standard grade of hide glue. 



In addition to these war orders the Inman Veneer and Panel 

 Company has already built up a splendid business in standard and 

 special panels for furniture and kindred work, and It is very busy 

 both at the Louisville plant and at a raw material cutting plant 

 which it erected at Mound City, III. The plant at Mound City is 

 known as the Inman Veneer and Panel Company, which has its 

 main offices located at Swlssville, and U. A. Swisshelm is superin- 

 tendent of the practical end both in the Mound City plant and in 

 the operations at Louisville. They have three rotary machines in 

 the Mound City plant, two of w^hich are in operation at the present 

 time. They cut poplar, gum and plain oak. Their quartered 

 oak faces, of which they use considerable quantity, they have to 

 purchase on the outside, as also their mahogany and other figured 

 faces. It is their expectation, however, to make their own fillers, 

 plain veneer and rotary cut oak faces at the Mound City plant. 



The moving spirit behind this new enterprise in the veneer and 

 panel business is C. W. Inman of the Inman Furniture Company, 

 with a plant at 30th and Kentucky, while the active man in 

 charge of the new operations Is his son, Harry Inman. 



not yet equipped it with veneer saws, but has his flitches cut 

 into veneer at custom mills. Mr. Kannapell also heads a new 

 enterprise located at Mound City, 111., which has just started up 

 under the name of the Mound City Veneer Mills. He has C. E. 

 Talbot associated with him in this business, and Mr. Talbot will 

 look after the timber and manufacturing end while Mr. Kanna- 

 pell will look after the selling. The Mound City Veneer Mills 

 started up with two rotary machines. The first start was made 

 Wednesday, April 3. It is the Intention to add another rotary 

 soon, and it is probable too that they will add saws later on. 



Mr. Kannapell, who still has his office in the Louisville Planing 

 Mill plant in the Parkland end of town, expects to locate his 

 sales office up town some time within 60 days and to continue 

 this as headquarters for the two Institutions, doing the selling 

 from this end. 





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Change in English Hardwood Supply 



A review of the English hardwood situation by Timber, a London trade 

 paper, refers to the arrival of parcels of hardwood on consignment, "but 

 the prices asked were well-nigh fabulous." The paper then proceeded to 

 lomment on the outlook of getting supplies from homegrown timber, and 

 stated that it was already being done in the case of oak, ash, and chest- 

 nut, and that It was probalile that home supplies would meet much of the 

 'li-mand after the war. 



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