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2. Sawmill - Wikipedia

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   A combustion engine drives a selfmade sawmill in north Florida. Stereo recording 1988. A sawmill's basic operation is much like those of hundreds of years ago: a log enters on one end and dimensional lumber exits on the other end. After trees are selected for harvest, the next step in logging is felling the trees, and bucking them to length.

3. American Forest Products Corporation - Wikipedia

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   American Forest Products Corporation (AFPC) was a Fortune 500 [1] company initially producing wooden boxes and shipping materials but expanding into the timber, sawmill, and lumber industries. The company began in the 1920s and operated under the same leadership until it was sold to the Bendix Corporation in 1969.

4. Gautier, Mississippi - Wikipedia

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   He established a lucrative sawmill business in the area, and the town grew up from it. The home, known by locals as "The Old Place", is owned by the descendants of Fernando Upton Gautier and his wife, Theresa Fayard Gautier (1828–1911), [ 5 ] and is used for private and public events.

5. Brooks-Scanlon Lumber Company - Wikipedia

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   When it began sawmill operations, Brooks-Scanlon owned 250,000 acres (1,000 km 2) of timberland south and east of Bend, while Shevlin-Hixon owned 215,000 acres (870 km 2) including parcels along 70 miles (110 km) on both sides of the Deschutes River. Within a year of opening, the Brooks-Scanlon and Shevlin-Hixon sawmills were the two largest ...

6. Meadow River Lumber Company - Wikipedia

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   The Meadow River Lumber Company, which operated in Rainelle, West Virginia from 1906 to 1975, was the largest hardwood sawmill in the world. It had three 9 feet (2.7 m) bandsaws under one roof. In 1928, during peak production, its 500 employees produced 31 million board feet (73 thousand cubic meters) of lumber , cutting 3,000 acres (12 km 2 ...

7. How a 95-year-old Wisconsin sawmill used wood chips, bark to ...

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   Kretz Lumber, located just outside of Antigo, uses byproducts from its sawmill to power a new boiler system. How a 95-year-old Wisconsin sawmill used wood chips, bark to sell electricity back to ...

8. Simpson Investment Company - Wikipedia

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   Simpson was a prominent forest products company in Northern California for much of the 20th century, after first acquiring California timberland in 1945, eventually managing more than 450,000 acres of forest in California, in what was then known as the Redwood Division and is now mostly part of spinoff Green Diamond Resource Company.

9. Wood industry - Wikipedia

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   In the narrow sense of the terms, wood, forest, forestry and timber/lumber industry appear to point to different sectors, in the industrialized, internationalized world, there is a tendency toward huge integrated businesses that cover the complete spectrum from silviculture and forestry in private primary or secondary forests or plantations via the logging process up to wood processing and ...