Definition: Sawnwood

Category: Forestry

Wood that has been produced from both domestic and imported roundwood, either by sawing lengthways or by a profile-chipping process and that exceeds 6 mm in thickness. It includes planks, beams, joists, boards, rafters, scantlings, laths, boxboards and lumber, etc., in the following forms: unplaned, planed, end-jointed, etc. It excludes sleepers, wooden flooring, mouldings (sawnwood continuously shaped along any of its edges or faces, like tongued, grooved, rebated, v-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/product?code=KS-31-11-137&mode=view UNECE/FAO/Eurostat/ITTO, Joint Forest Sector Questionnaire (2010), Definitions