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Table 26. — Lumber consumed in manufactured products, by product group, 1928-2000 



[Million board feet] 



Product group 



1928 



1933 



1940 



1948 



1960 



1962 



Projections 





1970 



1980 



1990 



2000 



Furniture: 



Household - - 



1,269 



718 



1,323 



1,965 

 105 



283 

 477 

 255 



435 

 392 



2,088 

 173 



261 

 414 

 218 



295 

 403 



2,255 

 182 



257 

 412 

 221 



293 

 620 



2,360 

 210 



280 

 360 

 240 



300 

 670 



2,450 

 240 



310 

 320 

 290 



310 

 700 



2,620 

 280 



330 

 320 

 330 



290 

 740 



2,890 



Commercial and institutional 



320 



Consumer goods: 



Income-sensitive 



304 

 368 

 331 



1,169 

 303 



76 



279 



92 



274 

 118 



214 

 521 

 125 



323 

 297 



350 



Income-insensitive 



Commercial equipment 



Industrial machinery and equip- 

 ment 



320 

 360 



290 



Miscellaneous products 



750 



All products 



3,744 



1,557 



2,803 



3,912 



3.852 



4,240 



4,420 



4,620 



4,910 



5,280 



about 26 percent (table 26 and fig. 16). The pro- 

 jections for the various product groups, however, 

 show widely varying increases as indicated below. 



Household furniture. — In 1962 some 2.3 billion 

 board feet of lumber, or 53 percent of the total 

 volume used for all manufacturers, went into 

 household furniture. The projection shows a rise 

 to 2.9 billion board feet by 2000, an increase of 

 28 percent over 1962. 



Commercial and institutional furniture. — Lum- 

 ber consumption in the manufacture of items such 

 as office chairs, desks, tables, and file cabinets; 

 wood desks and other school furniture; and church 

 furniture amounted to about 182 million board 

 feet in 1962. In spite of a prospective drop in 

 lumber use per dollar, the large increases projected 

 in the total sales result in a prospective rise in 

 consumption to 320 million board feet in 2000. 



Income-sensitive consumer goods. — Included in 

 this group are items such as sports equipment, 

 pianos and other musical instruments, boats, toys, 

 and luggage, for \yhich demand has risen sharply 

 with increased income. Projected trends in 

 lumber use vary widely among these products, but 

 the total rises from 257 million board feet in 1962 

 to 350 million board feet in 2000. 



Income-insensitive consumer goods. — Because 

 sales are not increasing in proportion to income, 

 and other materials are replacing wood in such 

 items as brooms and brushes, caskets, shoe find- 

 ings, lasts, and matches, lumber use for income- 

 insensitive goods was projected to fall from 412 

 milHon board feet in 1962 to 320 million in 2000. 



Commercial equipment. — Lumber use in water- 

 cooling towers and other commercial refrigerating 

 and air-conditioning equipment has increased 

 substantially since 1948. Use of lumber for 



partitions and fixtures and for signs and advertis- 

 ing displays, on the other hand, has been dropping, 

 partly because of the substitution of metal and 

 greater use of plywood, hardboard, and particle- 

 board. Projections for the group as a whole show 

 a rise from 221 million board feet in 1962 to 360 

 million in 2000. 



Industrial machinery and equipment. — Use of 

 lumber in industrial and agricultural products, 

 such as patterns and jigs, truck bodies and trailers, 

 machines, electrical equipment, and agricultural 

 implements, declined from about 435 million 

 board feet in 1948 to 290 million in 1962. Largely 

 because of the rather substantial increase pro- 

 jected in sales, lumber use has been projected to 

 remain at about the 1962 level. 



LUMBER CONSUMED IN MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS 



FURNITURE 

 Housetiold 



Commetciol ond Inslrlulionol 



CONSUMER GOODS 



Income-Sensilive 



Income-insensitive 



COMMERCIAL EQUIPMENT 



INDUSTRIAL MACHINERY AND EQUIPMENT 





Figure 16 



