Summary - Canadian Industry Statistics

Definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing boards, dimension lumber, timber, poles and ties from logs and bolts. These establishments produce lumber that may be rough, or dressed by a planning machine to achieve smoothness and uniformity of size, but is generally not further worked or shaped.

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  Establishments that preserve wood are also included.

  Exclusions

  Establishments primarily engaged in:
  chipping logs in the forest (see 11331 Logging)
  manufacturing glued-laminated timber, nailed-laminated lumber beams, parallel strand lumber, laminated
  veneer lumber, fingerjoined lumber, and similar products (see 32121 Veneer, plywood and engineered
  wood product manufacturing)
  preserving purchased plywood (see 321114 Wood preservation)
  peeling or slicing logs to make veneer (see 32121 Veneer, plywood and engineered wood product
  manufacturing)
  planing purchased lumber or working lumber further than dressed (see 32191 Millwork)