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Louisiana Pacific SmartSystem Engineered Wood Siding Plant Tour
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" That's a lot of lumber behind this must be just you know thousands of lives here what kind of what is it. On this is that. We've chosen used primarily small diameter -- trees that are smart system product. Really to -- of our product. Industry for the product comes from our renovation rather than very. As opposed to a solid zone of RA violence about when you use our product you are days in the country's dependence the ul logo bars. So that's just one way that you're helping to keep the pot down as well as you know helping out how to make. That's -- how does what's happening behind you here. Well they kind of fear after the -- them into the -- we love and then what I'll laugh need and log conditioning -- heat these laws. And make immediately this takes about eight hours to move through the -- Bob -- bonds. And it gives you the water ranges between sixty and 100 degrees depending on the -- here and they're getting totally waterlogged. Or. Yes that is correct and it does exaggerate the logs and it makes them easier being played into the bar. So what happens once the -- comes out of the soaking five and into the operation. We'll the next phase of the operation they thought we remove the -- the walls and and it moved into the slash dissolved and and into the Blake. Wildlife areas where large disco rotating and actually -- the logical place a typical places about the thickness of a thin sheets of paper. And is about four inches long those are shading operation exactly. And then what. Well then the blades little for the dryer the dryer is a large rotating Roman flakes move through the world. And now we circulate hot air that averages around 1200 degrees. Through the -- in order to remove the more here."
" Operation in the blender is much like a large clothes dryer. About eight feet dollars forty feet -- the flakes actually tumble through. The blender and that's where we incorporate special resins. Bonded product together after the product is have been -- applied in the -- we put it through our smart -- process from the smart card processor is a process which we add special environmentally friendly wood preservative and prevent Iran phone what are they -- it -- a borate based preservative is used in everyday products like so and so you can fertilize."
" Okay Charles and what's happening -- material of this day. We'll actually think they're really starting to come together here what we have in the massive outpouring didn't think -- really composed of very different players running at three different. Whichever direction yeah exactly -- you correctly in order you product great night we have a continuous match here we have a bedroom all the -- the man in new minority. Preference for going here. Is happening right behind you right now and that's exactly right. Now what you have if you have a -- defend freedom revolving read them. They environmentally friendly wood preservative to protect hit rock bottom of the day. And then their -- special paper primed overlay an advantage report goes into the -- The press felt had made opening. We have Michael hall Blake don't let that happen pattern of the -- building when we could be very under brand new. We put the product in the air and we put -- under pressure about new valve and now. I'm a little over 400 degrees here here and around four minutes and we're actually -- things that they don't look into the hand. Well all of the board now they're considered board announced that a plague our neighborhood well I'm not -- people on loan. They would simply break the pieces down into the thousands of customer requires. And it came from last -- the -- nothing pink memo indicates the family will be bigger bed and floor right woven -- a woman here. Then after we read the product now they have enough men who did they learn filming here we have a hard hearing pounding the protecting -- more different versions swelling goes down. -- finish line we. After that the product that -- bundled up and easy to handle package did."
" What Charles smart lab bench mark soffit effectively can replace products like. Traditional red cedar redwood -- what do they cost advantages. Well -- advantage in this case Slater is about hand. What we've really done is created a treated engineered wood siding products that have all the beauty. Public cedar governor yes exactly without all the column itself so easy install -- very durable we have a very strong Wharton -- product on there is a warranty on absolutely. We have a five year 100% repair replace or -- And also a 45 year limit of morphine which is one of the strongest in the industry Exxon with Charles thanks for the tour thank you."