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noun. 1. : surplus or disused articles (such as furniture) that are stored away. 2. a. : timber or logs especially when dressed for use. b. : any of various structural materials prepared in a form similar to lumber. lumber adjective.
3 meanings: mainly US and Canadian the business or trade of cutting, transporting, preparing, or selling timber 1. awkward in.... Click for more definitions.
- Products
- Tree Species and Regional Production
- Trade
- Lumber and Plywood Manufacturing
- Particleboard and Oriented-Strand Board Manufacturing
- New Products
The products created by the lumber and wood industries include lumber, veneer, plywood, particleboard, oriented strand board (formerly called flake, chip, or wafer board), wood pellets and wood composites (or engineered wood). These products are created by mechanical processes such as sawing, peeling, slicing or chipping. They also produce, as resi...
In Canada, the principal softwood lumber species are spruce, pine, hemlock, Douglas fir, larchand western red cedar, while the predominant hardwood species are birch, mapleand oak. British Columbiaproduces roughly two-thirds of the softwood lumber supply, and as a result, softwood plywood is manufactured predominantly in that province. Hardwood lum...
Most of the lumber produced in Canada is exported; less than 40 per cent is consumed domestically. Since the mid-19th century, the United States has been the most important buyer of Canada’s lumber. For nearly as long, however, and especially since the 1980s, Canadian lumber producers have been subjected to a number of tariffs and restrictions that...
General Process Mechanical or hydraulic debarking is the first step in converting a sawlog into lumber. In conventional sawmills, large logs are placed on a moving log carriage and passed repeatedly through a band or circular saw, each pass producing boards that normally require further processing on edgers, resaws and trimsaws. In sawmills that pr...
Particle Board Wood particleboard is a panel product manufactured by bonding particles of wood together with an adhesive in a press. Since the product is manufactured from small pieces of wood, properties of the finished board, such as density, hardness and elasticity, can be engineered into the panel. The various wood elements are screened and sep...
In the 21st century, Canada’s lumber and wood industries have worked towards manufacturing new, high-tech products by studying wood’s microscopic, or nano, properties and developing applications for them. These include the production of a range of wood composites that can be used to replace traditional materials, most often plastics. Significant re...
The softwood lumber industry is an important sector in the Canadian economy, supporting thousands of jobs in communities across Canada and creating many positive spin-off effects in related industries and services.
There are two meanings listed in OED's entry for the adjective lumbering, one of which is labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
There is one meaning in OED's entry for the noun lumbering. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definition, usage, and quotation evidence.
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There are three meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun lumbering. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
