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veyed to the automatic length sorter, which was designed by plant superintendent, Jim Fechner, and built in the company's machine shop. The length sorter can handle as many as 25 difierent lengths from eight inches to seven feet long, adjustable to within one inch.

Moulding stock, after being ripped, is loaded onto carts and routed directly to the moulding department resaws where it is again cut, this time to thickness, and then processed on through one of the eight moulders.

There is no burner. Waste is disposed of through cyclone systems (for sawdust) and a chipping lacility (for larger wooC pieces). Sawdust is shipped in bulk and baled, for use by dairies, nurseries, laboratories and the like. Chips are collected by truek and shipped to a San Franciseo BayArea paper manufacturer for processing into paper products.

The millwork plant manufactures three complete lines of handsomely styled furni' ture for AFPC's Western Sierra Furniture subsidiary. Furniture component parts are shipped by rail to one of three assembly plants in California, Illinois and New Jer' sey.

In addition to a complete line of mouldines and three lines of furnitureo the AFPC millwork plant manufactures jambs, sash stock, industrial cut stock, furniture components (for customer-manufacturers). glued-up panel stock, doors, toy parts, cabinet. trailer and luggage component parts, not to mention box shook which accounts for 40 percent of the plant's production'

Eleven California'based AFPC sawmills provide the millwork plant with the bulk of its lumber requirements. However, several other sources are called upon regularly to help fulfill Stockton's rough lumber needs.

Millwork volume for the Stockton plant in 1965 totaled 57.7 million board feet. Based on production figures from the first half of 1966, sales this year are expected to exceed by 10 percent last year's totals' Of the nearly $100 million volume reported by AFPC for 1965, the Stockton division accounted for $16 million. Sales for the millwork plant are handled by AFPC's national lumber sales division, Tarter, Webster & Johnson.

To put all the lumber measurements and volume another way, Jim Fechner explains. "If our yearly production was used to build a walk-way one inch thick and twelve inches wide, it would reach over half-way around the world."

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