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The 'I Never Knew These Came From Trees' list
Products from Live Trees
Products from Solid Wood
Products from Wood Chips and Sawdust
Products from Pulping of Wood
Products from Bark and Cork
- acorns
- almonds
- apples
- avocados
- bananas
- bay leaves
- cedarleaf oil
- cedarwood oil
- chestnuts
- coconuts
- cork
- dates
- essential oils
- eucalyptus oil
- figs
- frankincense (olibanum)
- grapefruit
- grapefruit extract
- hickory nuts
- lemons
- lemonade
- lemon extract
- lemon juice
- lemon rind
- mandarin oranges
- maple syrup
- myrrh and opopanax resins and oils
- nectarines
- olives
- oranges
- orange flower extract
- orange fruit extract
- orange juice
- orange peel extract
- orange rind
- peaches
- pears
- pecans
- pine needle extract
- plums
- rosewood oil
- rubber
- seed source
- shade
- stabilize soil
- tangerines
- walnuts
- windbreak
- airplane fuselages
- airplane propellers
- armoirs
- bagpipes
- bar stools
- baseball bats
- basses
- bassoons
- bird houses
- boardwalks
- boat propellers
- bridges
- broom handles
- brushes
- cabinets
- cable reels
- canes
- cedar chests
- cedar closet liners
- cellos
- chairs
- charcoal and activated charcoal
- chop sticks
- church altars
- church pews
- clarinets
- closet rods
- clothes drying racks
- coasters
- coffee tables
- coffins
- cooperage (barrels)
- crutches
- cutting boards
- decks
- desks
- dining table and chairs
- docks
- dog houses
- doors
- drawer and cabinet pulls
- drums
- drum sticks
- entertainment centers
- fence posts
- fence poles
- ferries
- firewood
- flutes
- furniture
- futons
- gazebos
- glu-lam beams
- grandfather clocks
- home insulation
- handrails
- horse and stock trailer floors
- jewelry
- jewelry boxes
- jump standards for horses
- laundry drying racks
- manufactured homes
- marine pilings
- matches
- modular homes
- mouldings
- non-sparking hand tools
- oars
- oboes
- paint brush handles
- pallets
- paneling
- pencils
- petrified wood
- pianos
- piccolos
- picnic tables and chairs
- picture frames
- pilings
- plywood
- popsicle sticks
- porch swings
- produce crates
- propeller shaft bearings on ships
- racing shells
- rafts
- railroad ties
- recorders
- rocking horses
- roller coasters
- rowboats
- saddle trees
- sailboats
- shakes
- shingles
- siding
- skewers
- tables
- tack trunks
- Tacoma Dome (world's largest wood-frame structure)
- tongue depressors
- totem poles
- travel trailers
- turned bowls
- toothpicks
- utility poles
- violas
- violins
- walking sticks
- wheelbarrow handles
- wine barrels
- wood carvings
- wooden floors
- wooden nickels
- wooden spoons and other utensils
- wooden shoes
- wooden toys
- yacht decking
- cedarwood oils
- concrete forms
- dry process hardboard
- engineered beams
- fuel for sawmills
- high density overlay
- insulation board
- Masonite
- medium density fiberboard
- medium density overlay
- oriented strand board
- particleboard
- dissolving pulp
- linerboard pulp
- paper pulp
- taxol (anti-cancer drug)
- underlayment
- wet process hardboard
- absorbent waddings
- additive system binders
- adhesive systems
- animal feed additives
- arch supports for shoes
- artificial kidney membranes
- art paper
- bakery bags
- bed sheets
- binders
- blankets
- blister packaging
- blouses
- books
- boxboard
- calendars
- carbon black
- cardboard boxes
- cast earth houses
- catalogs
- cellulose acetate filter tow (cigarette filter tips)
- cellulose diacetate (plastic moulding and extrusion applications)
- cellulose triacetate (photo film substrate and specialty textile fibers)
- cellulose filters
- cellulose membranes
- cellophane
- ceramics
- cereal boxes
- cigarette filters
- cigarette paper
- clock facings
- coffee filters
- compression molding polymers
- concrete admixture
- copy paper
- corrugating medium
- cosmetic puffs
- detergent boxes
- dresses
- disposable diapers
- dispersants
- dust control
- dyestuffs
- egg cartons
- elastomeric RIM polymer systems
- electrical insulation
- emulsifiers
- envelopes
- facial tissue
- fast food wrapping
- fax paper
- fiber conduits
- file folders
- film
- filter paper
- flameproof papers
- fluorescent papers
- folders
- folding cartons
- foundry resin systems
- frozen food wrapping
- furnace insulation
- game boards
- gasproof papers
- greeting cards
- grocery bags
- insecticide sprays
- jigsaw puzzles
- juice cartons
- labels
- leather tanning
- lignin
- lignosulfonates
- linerboard
- loose-leaf binders
- lyocell
- magazines
- magazine organizers
- manuals
- milk cartons
- multiwall sacks (pet foods, livestock feed, lawn and garden seed, etc.)
- napkins
- newspapers
- newsprint
- notebook paper
- nitrocellulose (guncotton and billiard balls)
- nuclear power plant steam valve packing (carbonized rayon)
- oil filters
- oilwell drilling mud
- packing material
- panel boards
- paperboard
- paper-based tape
- paper cups
- paper plates
- paper towels
- paper trays
- partitions
- photographic paper
- pine tar
- pipelines
- pitch
- playing cards
- plugs
- poultry feeders
- pressure sensitive labels
- price tags
- printer paper
- rayon
- rigid reaction injection molding polymer systems (RIM)
- rosin
- rubber reinforcement
- sandpaper
- sanitary pads
- sausage casings
- seawalls
- seed starters
- sequestrants
- set-up boxes
- shrink and stretch overwrap films
- solid fuel rocket motor nozzles (incl. the space shuttle)
- speaker cones
- spiral notebooks
- spray-on acoustic and thermal insulation
- stationery
- steam valve packing (replacement for asbestos)
- surfactants
- surgical gowns
- tall oil
- tar oils
- tea bags
- telephone sets
- thermoplastic resins
- thermosetting resins
- tissue paper
- toilet paper
- toys
- tubes for toilet paper and paper towels
- turpentine
- twines
- vanillin (artificial vanilla flavoring)
- vellum
- wallpaper
- washable paper mats
- waxed paper
- well drilling mud
- wood particulate binders
- wrapping paper
- writing paper
- Bark
- arena footing for horses
- beauty bark for gardens
- hogged fuel
- Cork
- agglomerated cork
- pure expanded agglomerates - aglutinated with the corks own resins.
- compound agglomerates - aglutinated with non-cork products such as asphalt, rubber, casein, cement, gypsum, glue, plastic, natural or synthetic resins, etc.
- anti-static computer flooring
- ashtrays
- battery mold coating
- baseballs
- bath mats
- bathroom fittings
- beehives
- boxes for fishing equipment
- bulletin and tackboard materials
- candle holders
- ceiling tiles
- cigarette boxes
- coasters for glasses
- cold storage insulation
- composition rolls and sheets
- corkboards
- cork buoys
- cork coasters
- cork facings for walls and ceilings
- cork insulation in solid fuel rocket motor cases
- cork rolls and panels
- cork-rubber mixed gaskets in the automotive and electrical industry
- cork slabs and sheets
- cork stoppers for bottles, jars, and decanters
- cork wallpaper
- cork washers
- cricket balls
- dart boards
- desk pads
- expansion and compression joints in concrete structures
- self-expanding cork
- fishing rod rings and handles
- fishing net floats
- floor and carpet underlayments
- floor tiles
- fuel floats
- glass polishing
- golf balls
- golf clubs
- handicraft items
- hot pads
- jar lids
- life-jackets
- life-buoys
- linoleum
- machinery anti-vibration sheets and pads
- marble and granite grinding
- mats for plates
- memo boards
- musical instruments
- mute in wind instruments
- organ pipes (used as a stopper for)
- pipe insulation
- polishing blocks
- protector plates
- pump packing
- radioactive isotope capsule
- railway cars, steamships, truck insulation
- roofing for traditional dwellings (Portugal)
- safety helmets
- sandpaper backing sheet
- shoes
- shuttlecocks
- sound and thermal insulation in walls and roofing
- storage tank insulation
- table-tennis bats
- tapered cork stoppers
- thermal insulation in walls and roofing
- transmission bearing seals
- vibration damping in machinery
- wall tiles
- waterline gauge
- water tight seals
- whistles (the pea in whistles)
- wine corks
Many of these cork uses come from:
de Oliveira, M.A. and L. de Olivera, THE CORK, May 1995, reviewed and edited by the Portuguese Trade Commission and the Cork Institute of America with cooperation and authorization of Amorim Group.
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