<![CDATA[Wood-processing industries currently face the limitation of large-diameter wood logs, due to their scarce stocks from natural forests. Wood from plantation forests can deserve consideration as an alternative raw material for those industries. However, plantation-forest woods are usually of small-diameter sizes and lower qualities compared to those of natural forest woods. One solution to deal with those problems is the conversion of plantation-forest woods into the reconstituted wood products, which can be arranged to various desirable sizes, and more beneficial for construction and other purposes. Hereby, the manufacturing of reconstituted wood products, called I-joist beam was tried from small-diameter plantation forest wood species, i.e. cinnamon wood (Cinnamomum burmanii). The assembling used phenol-resorcinol-formaldehyde adhesive. Mechanical properties of the I-joist beam with vertical-gluing profiles between laminae in the web portion were lower than those of the corresponding small-sized defect-free solid wood, but higher than those of I-joist with horizontal-gluing profiles between laminae in the web as well as the horizontally laminated beam made-up of cinnamon wood-laminae. The angle between wood ray and gluing line (plane) correlated negatively with the strengths of I-joist beam. These results indicated the positive prospect of manufacturing I-joist beam from small-diameter cinnamon wood for construction material.]]>
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