Factory precutting reached 94 percent of post-and-beam timber houses in 2024, Japan's Forestry Agency reported in its white paper

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Japan. The Forestry Agency's white paper says precut timber has its joints and connections cut in advance to set shapes so that post-and-beam houses can be built easily on site, and that the precut processing rate in the post-and-beam method reached 94 percent in 2024; the figure is footnoted to the national precut machinery association. It measures how joints are cut, not how many carpenters work on site.

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