In the furniture-making and other woodworking industries, offcuts, shavings, sawdust, and wood waste are produced every day, often representing a cost—whether for disposal, storage, or sale at a low price. At the same time, facilities consume large amounts of energy to heat workshops, production halls, wood drying kilns, and paint shops, often using old furnaces that require manual loading and ash removal, or expensive fuels such as gas or heating oil.