M6226 - Saw, stud, chip, OSB, plywood, planing mills and wood preserving

Operational Details
Sawmills cut logs into dimensional lumber and can vary from a one man portable mill to large automated mills. The logs are trimmed to length, debarked and reduced into rough lumber.

Stud mills process dimensional lumber into specific lengths and sizes for construction building purposes.

Chip mills use wood wastage or small diameter logs to produce uniform wood chips which can be used in the production of particle board or engineered wood products.

Oriented Strand Board (OSB) mills produce an engineered wood product by layering strands or flakes of wood in specific orientations.

Plywood mills bond thin sheets of wood together under heat and pressure with strong adhesives to produce an engineered wood product.

Planing mills use various types of planing methods to process rough lumber into final wood products. The most common planing method involves a set of knives attached to a rotation drum.

Wood preserving is the process of treating wood products with chemical preservatives to prevent or slow the attack of insects and decay. The process may be done through pressure treatment, painting, spraying or immersion.

SIC Codes
000000409 - Planing
000000410 - Stud & Chip Mills
000000411 - Sawing
000000413 - Waferboard, OSB
000000414 - Peeling, Preserving, Creosoting
000000415 - Plywood