Klausner's new Southern Pine dimension lumber mill in Live Oak, Fla. began producing 2x4 earlier this month, a company spokesman announced, quoted by Random Lengths. Initially, the mill expects to ship most of its production overseas to a variety of destinations worldwide.
Klausner's plant will have a capacity of 700 million board feet, which corresponds to approximately 1.6 million cubic meters.
Klausner is expected to run one shift at the onset of production, with about 50-100 employees to start. As the operations progress, those numbers are expected to increase up to 350 permanent jobs in full production mode.