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sawing and export.
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Several saw-mills are combined with planing-mills. In Sweden there
are comparatively few planing-mills worked independently.
For the better utilization of the waste, many saw-mills have established
charcoal works and wood-pulp works. For the latter see under
Wood-Pulp Manufacture.
As will be seen by Tables 36 and 37, the principal articles oi export
among wood-wares are sawn products: deals, battens, and boards. Great
Britain is the most important purchaser of these goods, and next comes,
in ordinary years, France; among other importing countries may be
mentioned Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, and South Africa.
For planed boards, besides Great Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands,
South Africa, and Australia are the most important markets. In several
of the countries of the European continent the import of planed boards is
hampered by high duties. — Firewood or splitivood (more properly termed
deal- and board-ends, not more than 2 meters in length) consists of such
serviceable pieces as are left after the sorting. The quantity, of course, de-
Table 37. Exports in 1912 of unwrought, hewn, and sawn Timber,
according to Customs districts. Cubic meters.
Deals,
hat-tens and boards (includ.
box-boards), unplaned Planed boards
(includ. box-lioards) Beams and
rafters Round timber [-Pit-props-] {+Pit- props+} Other kinds Total
cubic-meters
Norrland:
Haparanda..... Luleå....... 1 350 932 56 45 946 12 1659 38 614 437 219
Piteå....... 1
Skellefteå..... Umeå....... Örnsköldsvik .... | 376 851 69 918 60 583 619 22 759 82 464 613194
128123 19 311 2 755 841 13 075 23 645 187 750
608 328 20 168 29 549 16 877 51544 113 905 N40371
Sundsvall..... 618 187 164 645 31474 1178 19 959 85 218 920661
Hudiksvall . ... Söderhamn..... | 475 430 80 873 42 841 271 54 983 56 986 711384
Gävle....... 431 267 50 266 — 7 11163 39 010 531 713
East Coast: Stockholm..... 90 961 657 823 2 761 5 240 100 442
Norrköping..... 108 109 13 095 9 5 1215 3 691 126 124
Västervik..... 51 220 3 351 146 — 18 572 2 093 75 382
Oskarshamn . 59 932 45 935 678 853 5 900 13 325 100 2 27 078 34 370 6114 4 824 99 802 9!) 309
Other districts1 . . . 81 378 734 2 265 — 20 826 25 541 1:50 7 44
West Coast: 291 253 118 738 695 15 032 85 285 80 664 591 667
Other districts1 . . . 306 420 112 869 133 883 148 282 74 943 54 609 831 006
Summary: Norrland...... 2 989 118 405 237 213148 19 805 175 142 439 842 4 242 292
East Coast . . 437 535 19 368 22 468 107 104 822 47 503 631803
West Coast1 . . 597 673 231 607 134 578 163 314 160 228 135 273 1422 673
Total 4024326 656 212 370194 183 226 440 192 622618 6 296 768
1 Including the quantity exported by land to Norway.
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