21.   The Mobil Chemical Co. is converting those baggies, along with waste wood fibers, into composite lumber for residential decks, dance floors and boardwalks.

22.   The oils are rubbed onto the surface, and the wood fibers absorb them.

23.   They penetrate, solidify, and harden the wood fibers.

24.   Things look a little better for pulp, the processed wood fiber used to make paper.

25.   Thus, the color penetrates into the wood fibers, rather than resting in a surface film like paint.

26.   Until the dioxin scare, most mills bleached wood fibers with chlorine gas.

27.   Unlike ordinary stains that darken and discolor wood fibers, glue stains are not apparent until a finish or stain is applied.

28.   Weyerhaeuser used to produce in Longview a material known as PreStock that combined wood fibers and polypropylene into mats that were used in car panels.

29.   When driven, both wedge apart wood fibers, which then spring back and lock into the spaces between the threads or rings.

30.   Robert Glowinski, executive director of the American Wood Council, said many composites include wood fibers and that woodmakers are using composites to improve their own products.