PURPOSE: To squeeze out the moisture contained in needle leaf tree veneer by compressing the veneer without largely subjecting the whole of the veneer to plastic deformation or destructing the same.

CONSTITUTION: A pair of rotating rolls 1, 2 of which the rotary axial lines are parallel are arranged so that the interval between the mutually opposed peripheral surfaces of the rolls is set to the length corresponding to 75-90% of the thickness of needle-leaf tree veneer P and a large number of pyramidal projections 3a, 3b are provided to the periperal surface of one roll so that the height of them in the radius direction from the peripheral surface of the roll is set to the interval or less to form a roll fitted with projections and a feed member feeding the veneer in the fiber direction thereof is further provided on the feed-in side of a pair of the rolls 1, 2.