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Title: Canadian forest industries 1911
Identifier: canadianforest1911donm (find matches)
Year: 1911 (1910s)
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Subjects: Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Southam Business Publications
Contributing Library: Fisher - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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F. W. BrenDen, President of the Canada Pine Lumber Company Herbert Brennen, President of M. Brennen & Sons Mfg. Co. Ltd. Albert S. Brennen, Secretary and Treasurer solid two-story structure of brick and stone, 120 x 130 feet, which was built about eight years ago. This establishment, which has been growing continually since it was first instituted, is being added to from year to year, and during 1910 the company contemplate erecting a large addition to accommodate their extensive line of manufac- turing. The plant as it exists to-day is one of the most complete of its kind in America. It contains the most modern type of equipment, which includes excellent dry kilns and a large assortment of the very best types of machinery that are available in North America. Among the machines which constitute the equipment of the plant may be men- tioned the following: Ballantyne stickers, S. A. Woods & Co. timber sizers, Woods matcher, Berlin Machine Co. large-size re-saw, Ballan- tyne inside mortiser, Chattanooga boring machine, overhead carriers for conveying timber to the big sizers, 200-h.-p. twin engines and boilers, two dry kilns, turning lathes of different kinds, all machinery necessary for sash and door manufacturing, including chain mortisers, dowel machine stickers, power mortisers, relisher, sash mortisers, dados, power-fed rip-saw, stair router, American sash plough, Berlin sander, blind slat tennant machine, jointer, band-saw and jig-saw, power clamps and shaper, and a number of other small machines that are necessary for well-equipped sash and door factories. Other com- panies whose machines are represented in the equipment include: J. A. Fay & Egan, Pennsylvania; H. B. Smith & Sons, New Jersey; Smith Phillips, Chicago; Greenlee Bros., Chicago; New Britain Ma- chine Co., Connecticut, and S. J. Shimer & Co., Pennsylvania. The plant also contains machines of nearly every Canadian make, and its capacity is 100,000 feet of lumber and 500 doors daily. It will be seen, therefore, that the company are provided Tvith every facility for the production of a large output of high-class products. It is little wonder that their business is increasing every year. In order to take care of the raw material and the product of this large plant, they
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