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Planing mill

A planing mill is a facility that takes cut and seasoned wooden boards from a sawmill and turns them into finished dimensional lumber. Machines used in the mill include the planer and matcher, the molding machines, and varieties of saws. In the planing mill, planer operators use machines that smooth and cut the wood for many different uses.

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A planing mill is a facility that takes cut and seasoned wooden boards from a sawmill and turns them into finished dimensional lumber.1 Machines used in the mill include the planer and matcher, the molding machines, and varieties of saws.1 In the planing mill, planer operators use machines that smooth and cut the wood for many different uses.2

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  1. "Planing mill". Britannica Online. Retrieved 2011-01-07.
  2. "Lumber Mill Worker Job Description". Career Information Center (9th ed.). Visual Education Corporation. January 1, 2007.
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