Identifier: canadianwood22 (find matches)
Title: Canadian wood products industries
Year: 1922 (1920s)
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Subjects: Furniture industry and trade Woodworking industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam-MacLean Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ownpower is conspicuous among a number of advantagesthey enjoy. How many woodworking plants in Can-ada develop their own electric power? Here is a nicelittle problem for the readers of The Woodworker.We venture the opinion that the fingers of one handonly will be necessary in arriving at the solution. Thepower-house shown in our illustration is situated onthe Riviere du Loup. The company develop over400 h.p., of which they use 150 h.p. for the operationof their plant. Surplus power is thus available fortwo other factories—engaged, say in the manufactureof chairs and high-grade furniture. Apart from the companys power development,the municipality have a plant at which they develop2,500 h.p., electric energy being available at very lowrates. The St.Lawrence Furniture Company are encagedin the manufacture of cheap and medium grade house-hold furniture. Their market is an extensive one—the territory stretching from Newfoundland to Van-couver. They specialize in bedroom and dining-room
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103 Canadian Woodworker and Furniture Manufacturer suits, manufactured out of native hardwoods securedwithin a radius of one hundred miles of the plant,rhey have their own saw-mill, in which they cut some500,000 feet of lumber each year—approximately one-third of the material used by the plant. Factory Plan Facilitates Routing of Material andProvides Breathing-Space at the Same Time From the general plan of the factory it will beseen that the plant enjoys many advantages. Firstand foremost is the manner in which the plant itselfis laid out. While the various departments are notsufficiently removed from one another to interfereeither with the routing of the material through the,various stages of operation, or with efficient super-vision on the part of the management, they are soplaced that there is ample breathing-space and lightin every corner of the industry. The advantage of locating a factory where plentyof land is available at a reasonable figure needs noelaboration. Only too of

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