LOGGING
- Logging companies use heavy machinery to move and stack the logs.
- Huge trucks are used to haul the heavy logs.
- Logging roads are needed to haul the logs from the camp to the saw or paper mills.
THE SAWMILL
- Trucks haul the logs to the sawmills.
- Logs are stacked in the yard.
- Logs are cut and the bark is stripped off in the mill.
- Saws trim the boards to different sizes.
- Boards are sorted by size, stacked and allowed to dry in bins.
- The stacks of lumber are dried in kilns.
- Every piece of lumber is inspected and graded.
- Lumber is stacked according to length, width and grade.
- The bundles are strapped together and wrapped in weather-proof covering.
- Bundles are moved to the yard, then shipped by truck or rail.
- Wood chips are collected for pulp and paper manufacturing.
PULP AND PAPER MILL
- Bark is removed from logs. Then logs are chipped for processing. (Wood chips also come from sawmills.)
- The wood chips are steamed and cooked to separate the wood fibres.
- Chemicals are used to bleach the brown fibre into white pulp fibre.
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Bleached pulp (softwood and hardwood) is sold to papermakers
in Canada, United States, the Pacific Rim and Europe.
- Softwoods - Jack Pine, White and Black Spruce
- Hardwoods - Aspen (White Poplar).
- The Paper Machine produces paper in sheets or rolls. The paper is used for photocopiers, writing, computers, books and other print material.