Lumber Shipment

Lumber shipment needs professional service and arrange ment on trucking and customs clearance. Especially for cross-border transport because most export lumber is shipped to United States by trucking.

Lumber shipment by

Trucks
Bulk carriers
Cotainers
Rail

Different woods/Lumber shipment.

Pine
Douglas Fir
Hemlock
Yellow Cedar
Maples

Dimensional lumber

lumber that is cut to standardized width and depth, often specified in millimetres or inches. Dimensional lumber is widely used in framing wooden buildings or civil contruction.

Common Lumber Size in Canada and the United States,

the standard lengths of lumber

6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 feet
Studs’ size: 92 5⁄8 inches, 104 5⁄8 inches, and 116 5⁄8 inches

Engineered lumber:

Engineered wood is usually manufactured by gluing wood strands, sheets, wood or other forms of wood fibers together to produce larger and integral composite units that are stronger and stiffer than the sum of the individual parts. Plywood is one of the most widely used engineered wood products and has existed for nearly a century. However, in recent years, manufacturing technology has led to other engineered wooden building materials, including oriented strand board (OSB), glued timber, timber I-beams, structural composite timber and structural composite panels.

Many of these products have become standard features of residential buildings, with many benefits. From greater design flexibility, spacious spaces, to more structured floors, walls and roofs, engineered wood is shaping the way we build.

According to APA-The Engineered Wood Association, engineered wood is consistent with building green and can “use more efficiently” available resources. “Engineered wood can be made from fast-growing, underutilized and cheaper wood in privately managed forests. This helps protect old forests.”

Compared with non-wood products, the use rate of engineered wood is also high in terms of pollutants and emissions during the manufacturing process. For example, compared with the same wooden siding, aluminum siding requires four times the energy and 22 times the energy of brick panels to produce and transport to construction sites. Concrete floors always require 21 times more energy than wooden floors.

However, more important than these environmental benefits is that engineered wood is strong and durable and can provide better protection from natural disasters. It exceeds the performance level of its log counterparts. For example, cross-laminated plywood and OSB distribute along the grain strength in two directions to make the whole stronger. Compared with solid sawn timber of the same size, wooden I-joists and glulam beams bear greater loads over longer spans.

The sales growth of engineered wood products proves the technical adaptability of the wood products industry based on the ever-changing wood fiber resources. “Because of the traditional and public forest manufacturing of wood products with less wood, producers are improving existing methods and inventing new methods, with less cost and more wood fiber resources,”

Laminated veneer lumber (LVL)
Wooden I-joists
Finger-jointed lumber
Glulam beams
Manufactured trusses