Engineered
Wood Products
We
are a leading distributor of top quality engineered wood products by iLevel/Weyerhaeuser.
iLevel/Weyerhaeuser manufactures a variety of engineered lumber products.
Built to satisfy the demanding criteria of today's building industry,
these products offer all the benefits of the large dimension lumber that
is no longer readily available due to environmental issues, declining
timber quality and unpredictable pricing. Wood-based engineered lumber
satisfies current building demands with wood products for framing that
are actually stronger than today's sawn lumber. Because these products
are created from wood, they provide the natural insulation for which wood
is renowned and a level of strength and stability that is competitive
with steel.
These revolutionary
products are made from fast growing aspen and poplar and can be fashioned
into a variety of components such as floor joists, rim boards, beams and
window, door and garage headers.
Weyerhaeuser
owns and manages 35 million acres of forests in North America and monitors
the use of best management practices by their log suppliers. All of their
U.S. mills that use logs or wood chips as their raw material are independently
certified to meet the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) standard.
Under the standard, wood from certified forests used to make these products
is tracked through each stage of production. This includes all primary
facilities— those using logs or chips to produce lumber, oriented
strand board, plywood, TimberStrand®, Parallam®, paper and pulp.
In addition, three of Weyerhaeuser’s I-joist mills (or secondary
manufacturing plants) are certified as meeting the SFI chain-of-custody
standard (in addition to meeting the fiber-sourcing provisions of the
SFI standard).
In
the field, engineered wood products save builders time and money because
they weigh less than traditional lumber and fewer tradespeople are needed
to provide installation. Every order of engineered wood is accompanied
by iLevel/Weyerhaeuser's Frameworks technical and engineering support
network - created specifically to help provide answers before problems
arise.
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