The film features the creation of plywood from hemlock, spruce, pine, western and Douglas fir. It shows the process of felling a tree to transporting it via logging truck, and unloading it at the water. A man in a Nanaimo Yarder is shown creating moving the logs into booms. The logs are shown at the mill, where the process of veneer production from both heartwood and sapwood is detailed. The veneer drying process is shown, and then the bonding of the veneer into plywood using a hot press and adhesive made of formaldehyde resin. The plywood is then shown being trimmed and sanded.
Uses of plywood are shown including the creation of a large loom to be sent to Australia, the forming of concrete, packaging of appliances, tongue and groove panels, cabinets and cupboards, skyscraper construction, construction of the first orthotropic steel deck bridge in North America, construction of Simon Fraser University campus, and prefabricated buildings. A facility for research and testing of plywood is shown, and more uses of plywood are shown including its ability to work as both covering and structuring material, to create stressed skin panels and plywood beams, folded plates, stressed panel arches, rigid frame construction and be adapted to unique uses such as the creation of wood-working tools, as a bath in a film processing centre, as boat siding, or to create a plywood sailplane.
