Rensselaer also had his own distillery and cooperage circa 1805. Today the distillery and cooperage reside in Rensselaer's former carriage house. The facility in which casks are made is also referred to as a cooperage. Amrut Distilleries has a cooperage on site to handle repairs. Sweetgum is used principally for lumber, veneer, plywood, slack cooperage, fuel, and pulpwood. By the mid-19th century, Acton was an industrial center for the production of barrels (cooperage). The slaves were skilled in their crafts, e.g. shoe making, cooperage, blacksmithing, carpentry. Barrels are only one product of cooperage. In some American cooperage the wood is dried in a kiln instead of outdoor seasoning. Its durable wood is highly valued in construction, furniture production, wood-carving and cooperage. The colonists built an admiral's house, a chapel, a storehouse, a cooperage, and a guardhouse. The building was used to display barrel-making until 1992 when the new cooperage was built. In 1926, the company made its first public offering as The Greif Bros. Cooperage Corporation. The new Cambus cooperage was opened in December 2011 by the Earl of Wessex. The wood has sometimes been used for wood wool and cooperage.