This is a wood-based panel mainly used as a structural substrate in buildings. OSB is made from long thin strands of wood and resin pressed together to make a flat structural panel. It started life as an alternative to plywood and this is still the mainstay for OSB. There are over1,000,000 housing starts per year in the US and most of these use a lot of OSB. OSB also continues to find new applications or iterations of itself and is becoming the basis of value-added structural products and in related formats...
Another wood-based panel but with different applications. Particle board is made from small wood chips and resin pressed together to form a panel. It is the preferred substrate in many furniture applications and is often finished with veneers of decorative laminates to give it an attractive appearance. Many of todays kitchen cabinets, knock-down furniture, and even high-end office furniture all utilize Particle board. The applications for TSI equipment in the particle board industry are the same as in the OSB...
The primary application of TSI technology is for the drying of wood chips to make Industrial Wood Pellets. In this industry TSI builds many complete Dryer Island Systems (see products page) that include a turn-key process island complete with Heat Energy, Drying and Pollution Control. Industrial Wood Pellets are a renewable fuel used in Utility Power Stations instead of coal. Whereas coal emits CO2 into the atmosphere with no reciprocal absorption or other mitigation, wood pellets come from trees that absorb...