Development in the wood construction market requires new building products

Wood construction is booming worldwide. More and more large investors are recognizing the clear advantages of timber construction and are using wood as a building material. In the USA in particular real estate boom and construction with wood is flourishing. This is having an impact on the global timber trade: for some weeks now demand for sawn timber and glued wood products has been increasing worldwide and delivery times are increasing for many products. Because Canada as traditionally the most important supplier of lumber to the North American market cannot increase its export quota for various reasons, the USA is increasingly importing the USA is increasingly importing lumber from Europe. And Russia will no longer export wood from January 1, 2022. Russia will no longer export any wood. The main beneficiaries of this will be large European timber companies, which supply significant proportions of their output to the USA. However, as demand for wood is growing not only in the USA, but also in Europe and Asia, this will result in a sharp increase in demand.

New solutions are needed
To achieve the net-zero targets, we will have to consistently eliminate steel and concrete. These building materials are responsible for gigantic CO production processes, these building materials are responsible for gigantic CO₂ emissions. The The use of wood as a naturally renewable raw material and CO₂ storage is the logical consequence. Global demand for wood will therefore continue to continue to rise. New building products are needed to meet this demand. building products. This is because the glulam and cross-laminated timber products that are known and often used today and cross-laminated timber products often used today generate a lot of waste. Branches, tree tops and all sawmill waste cannot be used for the production of load-bearing building products, which reduces the yield to a minimum. which reduces the yield to about 30% of the tree. It needs new products for the wood construction market: with Scrimber, whole trees could be processed into building products. For the production of scrimber, tree trunks and branches are tree trunks and branches are shredded into individual fibers with large rollers. with glue and processed into construction products in the desired shape and dimensions.