All About Lumber

All about Lumber

Learn about Lumber

Where can it be found?-Lumber is exported mainly from canada in three provinces, Britich columbia, Quebec and Ontario . B.C is a leading province in the lumber industry

InterestingsFacts-The Lumber industry provides 54 400 direct jobs and 90 600 indirect jobs producing 145 000 jos in total-It takes around six months to season wood to ensure complete solidity and dryness

Products Of Lumber

Processed Lumber transportation

Lumber Mill

Transporting the Logs

Canfor, Beaver lumber and West fraser are among some of the companies that distribute, produce and refine lumber into various products.

Work in the lumber mill includes the operation of machinery in order to reloacte logs including the unloading from trucks, the seasong of wood and the cleaning of lumber.

There is also the job of delivering procesed lumber to companies that have placed orders throughout. THese include private companies aswell as delivering lumber through the border to americans

Transporting the logs or raw lumber to factories for processing opens up jobs for truckers and can provide work for trucking companies on hire

A bit about Lumber-Lumber is exported to various countries, these countries include The U.S, Japan and the European union. The majority of exports going to u.s.a clocking at 80% while japan exports are 11% and european union is 5%.-Lumber includes a variety of wood. Various trees such as oak, maple and birch are all types of Lumber-Different jobs that arise from the lumber industry include transportation, packaging, processing, inspection and even human-resources in factories

Bibliography1.)http://www.nrcan.gc.ca/forests/industry/133112.)http://www.statcan.gc.ca/pub/11-621-m/11-621-m2007055-eng.htm