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The Pacific Lumber Inspection Bureau (PLIB) is a private, non-profit lumber quality control inspection agency. Organized in 1903, it provides grading and grade stamping services to over 50 softwood lumber manufacturers, re-manufacturers, and drying facilities in Oregon, Washington, western Idaho, and the coastal and southern interior regions of British Columbia, Canada. PLIB also provides quality control inspection at wood packing manufacturing facilities that are required to comply with export packing regulations. The Bureau is headquartered in Federal Way, WA and has a British Columbia division office in Vancouver, B.C. The PLIB member mills produced approximately 5 billion board feet of softwood lumber in 2006.
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