. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. September 1, 1920 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 167 Cooperage Industry in Canada is Busy One How Various Lines of Stock are Quickly Turned OutâSome Interesting Opera- tionsâEconomy in Use of Materials and Speed in Production -By J. C. Bailey â One hears and reads very little about the manufacture of coop- erage stock, yet this is a large and important branch of the wood- working industry. A number of large plants, employing many hun- dreds of men, are
. Canadian forest industries July-December 1920. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. September 1, 1920 CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 167 Cooperage Industry in Canada is Busy One How Various Lines of Stock are Quickly Turned OutâSome Interesting Opera- tionsâEconomy in Use of Materials and Speed in Production -By J. C. Bailey â One hears and reads very little about the manufacture of coop- erage stock, yet this is a large and important branch of the wood- working industry. A number of large plants, employing many hun- dreds of men, are equipped for the quantity production of staves, hoops and heading. The size of this branch of the woodworking m- dustry can best be judged by the value of its product which in 1919 ran from $4,000,000 to $5,000,000. One of the larger of our Canadian cooperage plants is that of the Trenton Cooperage Mills, Limited, Trenton, Ont. This plant has a daily output of 45,000 staves, 30,000 hoops, 3000 sets of heading and 500 barrels. Figured in annual output, this would run approxi- mately 5,000,000 to 6,000,000 staves, 3,000,000 hoops, 250,000 sets of heading and 120,000 barrels. In addition about 500,000 ft. of lum- ber is cut and disposed of each year. Some idea of the amount of stock produced may be gathered from the fact that if the 6,000,000 staves produced each year were to be placed end to end, they would form a continuous line which would reach from Toronto to Van- couver, B. C. The total amount of timber worked up annually is in the neighborhood of 2,500,000 ft. ' The wood used is largely elm. Smaller amounts of pine, pop- lar and basswood are worked into heading stock and also made into sawn staves. It has been found that elm is admirably suited for the manufacture of coiled hoops, in fact, to date, a satisfactory sub- stitute for this wood has not been found, and makes a good cut or sliced stave, so that naturally it is preferred by most manufacturers of cooperage stock.
Size: 3161px × 791px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, booksubjectforestsandforestry
