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The LSPI has been using the FPRDI moisture meter for seven years now.
The LSPI has been using the FPRDI moisture meter for seven years now.

The management of the Laguna Southwoods Products, Inc. (LSPI), maker and exporter of high quality wooden pallets based in Sto. Tomas, Batangas, recently hailed the FPRDI digital wood moisture meter as an essential tool in their operations.

The FPRDI wood moisture meter is a handheld device that reads the amount of water present in wood, especially of Philippine wood species. It was made using local spare parts and is much cheaper than imported meters at only Php 5,500 per unit.

A plywood glue newly formulated by the DOST-Forest Products Research and Development Institute (DOST-FPRDI) will soon be tested in making full-sized plywood.

This, after the Institute and a private company signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) last 04 October 2019 that prompts the trial run of producing full-sized panels (4 ft. x 8 ft.) using FPRDI-developed glue mixtures with spent tea leaves (STL) and tobacco dust as additives.

As part of the project “Processing and Utilization of Senile and Unproductive Rubberwood (Hevea braziliensis) Trees for the Production of High Value Furniture, Mouldings and Joineries”, the DOST- FPRDI recently published training manuals on rubberwood sawmilling, protection and preservation, lumber drying, and furniture making.