The latter workshops may not have the capital to buy all the necessary logs. They either use loans from their final buyers or obtain their supplies in a large number of small purchases, or do both. These workshops subcontract the initial sawmilling, just after buying the logs, before bringing the processed logs to their workplace. The sawmilling mainly consists of splitting the logs into planks, which are later used in manufacturing the components. The recovery rate in this initial step is about (mean calculation based on data provided by three sawmills, sawing respectively 3 110, 576 and 288 m3 .
