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jumped back up to nearly 2 billion board feet. 
Paranda pine, mostly from the States of Parana and 
Santa Catarina, constituted about 80 percent of 
their lumber output (fig. 24). The rapid depletion 
of Parana pine in the eastern part of these States 
has forced many mills to the less-developed western 
part of Parana and Santa Catarina, from where 
lumber can be shipped to Argentina on the nearby 
Parana River. The State of Sao Paulo produced 
about half of the broadleaf (hardwood) lumber in 
this region: imbuia, cedro, and louro were the 
principal species. 
The majority of the southern sawmills are small 
installations which cut less than 2 million board feet 
per year. Their lumber output is generally inac- 
curately sawed and insufficiently seasoned in open 
stacks. There are also some well-equipped mills 
that cut more than 5 million board feet per year. 
and some of them operate dry kilns. Most of the 
lumber destined for export is trucked over 150 to 
200 miles of poor roads from the highlands to ports 
on the coast, while lumber for the large domestic 
market of Sao Paulo is trucked over distances of up 
to 300 miles or shipped by rail. 
Vitéria and Salvador are the principal sawmill 
centers for timbers from the coastal rain forest, and 
Manaus and Belém for timbers from the Amazon 
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FORESTS AND FOREST INDUSTRIES OF BRAZIL 
_ Amazonas (fig. 25). 
rain forest. Of the 93 sawmills operating in 1953 
in the North region, 60 were in Parad and 20 in 
Only 15 of these mills produced 
individually more than 500,000 board feet of lumber 
per year. 
region is estimated at 20 million board feet annually. 
Total lumber production of the Amazon 
In the metropolitan centers of Rio de Janeiro and 
Sao Paulo are several well-equipped sawmills with 
vertical and horizontal bandsaws for the produc- 
tion of high-quality broadleaf lumber for the domestic 
and export trade, as well as with frame saws for the 
common construction grades. Logs for these mills, 
as well as for mills in the coastal towns of the North- 
east, are shipped in from the North and South. 
Plywood and Veneer 
In 1958 Brazil produced about 12 million cubic feet 
of plywood and veneer. About 45 percent of this 
output was of Paranda pine produced in the three 
southern States of Parana, Santa Catarina, and Rio 
Grande do Sul for which statistics are available (table 
10). The State of Parana accounted for one-third of 
the total output. 
pine is used mainly for crating; that of broadleaf 
Plywood and veneer of Parana 
species, principally cedro, imbuia, jequitiba, jacar- 
anda, peroba, and sucupira, for furniture and cabinet- 
work. 
Table 10.—Plywood and veneer output of the States of Parana, 
Santa Catarina, and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 1955-61 
Plywood 
Year Parana Broadleaf Total 
pine | (hardwood)| 
Thousand | Thousand | Thousand 
cubic feet | cubic feet | cubic feet 
OS Seb oee inet eres DPS | 791 3,416 
OSG. vieshays sof A ey 2, 582 | 887 | 3, 469 
NOS Gaeta seypeyoeie gen: Beales | 729 3.046 
NOS Se pean ost: che eho ieens 2, 825 197 | 3, 622 
OS OMe ag hehe oer Te 2,504 | 783 3, 287 
IQG0 ee oscaae oe. he eee 2, 653 | 835 | 3, 488 
NO GIGS. Ses tetris 1,709 | Sh 4,981 
Veneer 
OSS ei tcc ceta ree eee Ges 1, 048 1,206 | 5, 254. 
ILS Sf oreraieratiot sone Gee 4, 137 1,222 5.359 
LACES 7d = Atay cen takai OR amoe 3, 463 1,152 1,615 
TOSS Seer Onceymeec its 2,559 1, 079 3. 634. 
LOSS i eee 2, 376 907 | 3.283 
TO GOR eres roe reacts 2,305 834. 3,139 
LQG eh Fae os oa 3, 082 931 1,013 
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