EMCO Plywood Corporation

Magallanes, Agusan Del Norte

July 24, 2020

MR. & MRS. DONALD G. ELORDE

Company Owners

Dear Ma’am/Sir,

This letter is to report to you about the rejects in the production

of plywood.
Regarding the rejects, especially those on July 18, what happened
was that the hot press got dysfunctional. We graded almost 1,500
panels of plywood that were not frozen, around 900 panels of which
were grade E. For the production, we analysed it together with the idle
time that is why ma’am got confused why there were many grade E
falldowns. Regarding the dryer, the moisture control for the short core
is 10-16 and the speed is 200rpm. Mr. Bob Busico was there since the
beginning of the process and that is what we have been applying right
now. For the moisture control of the F-bk, we redry it if there is a
double light. We reduced the speed for the ruler dryer to 175rpm
because there were still those that were wet that got through with a
200 rpm speed. There were also blisters and we checked the
temperature of the hot press and found it at 112°C so we lowered it to
105°C. Finally, we also checked the glue spread and found out that the
top rubber roll was thin and the back was thick. We discovered the
problem to be that the spring of the spreader’s knob would release. We
are currently monitoring the spring knob every 30 min. and yesterday
the rejects were minimized. However, after the break at dawn, the
spring released again from 1 AM-7AM so we are still monitoring it.

Respectfully yours,

EDGAR E. JOSOL
Production Head