Why cut expensive timber – on an expensive saw – to make cheap components?
PTS have emailed out to a number of frame & truss plants a circular that hopefully makes operators question some old and new assumptions about how to lower the installed cost of components in their jobs. If you are a fabricator, you may have received that email. The idea behind the email is to put up for question some assumptions that have been around for some time and some emerging thought about optimising timber usage. In the past, plants would buy long length premium grades (MGP10 & 12) and cut everything themselves from this feedstock. Some plants continue to do this however a growing trend has been to mix pre-docked components and for some applications lower grade, but certainly ‘fit for purpose’ product. PTS are a supplier for these products. There has been and will always be a price differential to ensure ‘whole of log’ production from the mills is taken into the marketplace. Sawmills and processors like PTS work on maintaining the balance between supply and pricing incentive to
