Founded in 1903, Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau (PLIB) is a non-profit, accredited lumber and wood products inspection and certification agency. PLIB provides lumber-grading and grade-stamping services to the lumber industry along with a wide range of other inspection and certification services for related wood-products manufacturers including Heat Treatment, Wood Packaging, CE Marking, WUI, Glulam, Cross-Laminated Timber, and Wood Trusses.
With the merger, PLIB added Glulam and Cross-Laminated Timber quality-control certification to its list of signature services and expanded coverage into the southern United States and Europe. Headquartered in Federal Way, Washington, with offices in Canada and Europe, PLIB operates throughout much of North America as well as the wood producing regions of Europe.
With the merger, PLIB added Glulam and Cross-Laminated Timber quality-control certification to its list of signature services and expanded coverage into the southern United States and Europe. Headquartered in Federal Way, Washington, with offices in Canada and Europe, PLIB operates throughout much of North America as well as the wood producing regions of Europe.
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The West Indies covers many different islands. Some of them require ISPM 15 certification for wood packaging while others do not show up on the list of countries that require it. Cuba, Jamaica and Trinidad/Tobago are three countries that are listed as requiring ISPM 15 certification. Consider having your wood packaging ISPM 15 certified and labeled as such if you are shipping to the West Indies just to be safe.
We hope you find our FAQs helpful and informative. If you have questions not answered here, please send us an email with your question(s) and we will get back to you by phone or email, whichever is your preference. If you are a new member starting service with the Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau (PLIB), please contact our office to order your first set of grade stamps by calling 503.639.0651.
PLIB staff is helpful, knowledgeable, and here to serve its members and subscribers. Beyond that, we are happy to help any specifier, architect, builder, code official, and users of lumber, glulam, wood packaging, or other related products with questions or concerns.
Our inspectors have over 150 years of combined lumber grading, inspection, and quality control experience and our average staff tenure is 16+ years, so go ahead and ask us; we'll do our best to get you clear and straightforward answers.To reach one of our inspectors, please refer to the list below the form.
Our inspectors have over 150 years of combined lumber grading, inspection, and quality control experience and our average staff tenure is 16+ years, so go ahead and ask us; we'll do our best to get you clear and straightforward answers.To reach one of our inspectors, please refer to the list below the form.
American Institute of Timber Construction (AITC) was founded in 1952 to be the national trade association for the structural glued laminated timber (glulam) industry. In 2013 West Coast Lumber Inspection Bureau assumed the Structural Glued Laminated Timber Certification Program of the American Institute of Timber Construction.
PLIB's Grade Stamp Licensing Agreement program authorizes qualified mill personnel to apply the PLIB registered grade marks and issue Certificates of Inspection. The PLIB registered grade marks and inspection certificates are recognized worldwide as evidence of quality. At the foundation of the PLIB grade service program are the PLIB Supervisors, whose decades of combined mill experience make them highly respected throughout the industry.
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