ABSTRACT
The wood industries are fairly evenly distributed throughout the country, although there are marked concentrations of the furniture-making and shop-fitting industries in the London Region. The conversion of large logs into planks is carried out on various kinds of heavy bandsaw and reciprocating saw. The planks are dried either in the open air or by the much quicker process of kiln drying in large heated drying chambers. The logs for plywood making are practically all imported and are of the same enormous size as those used by the major sawmillers and veneer cutters, a typical log being three to six feet in diameter and anything up to thirty feet long. Furniture is bulky to transport and though it can sometimes be carried in a knock-down form and assembled on arrival, it is important that factories should be reasonably near to their consumer market.
