TOLEDO, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Owens Corning (NYSE: OC) announced today that it signed an agreement with JR Plastics Corporation to acquire WearDeck®, a premium producer of composite ...

Freres Lumber Company says it has achieved Mass Plywood Panels (MPP) certification under the APA - The Engineered Wood Association's ANSI/APA PRG 320 standard. The product is the first Mass Timber ...

Demand for environmentally friendly, virtually maintenance-free Trex composite decking grows every year. Why has this home-improvement upstart captured so much attention?

Structural composite lumber, such as laminated veneer lumber (LVL), laminated strand lumber (LSL), parallel strand lumber (PSL), oriented strand lumber (OSL) (in development) and steam-pressed scrim ...

LEESBURG, Va. – The American Wood Council (AWC) has released a revised 2015 Manual for Engineered Wood Construction, which contains design information for structural lumber, glued laminated timber, ...

This brief overview of the types of mass-timber systems from WoodWorks, While innovative systems continue to be developed within the mass timber category, common products currently include: ...

The recent push for larger and taller wood structures may seem like an architectural fad—plenty of hype, but only a few dozen completed projects globally. Concrete and steel still rule the world of ...

Elaine’s background in construction connects her to this project, because if composites could replace wood and conventional materials in the construction world, it would be cost-efficient and ...

Welcome back to the "Behold the Beam" series of articles. In part three (Firehouse®, September 2010) of the series, we discussed the first five of the 13 common types of beams that firefighters can ...

Wood-filled/thermoplastic composites, first introduced to consumers in the early 1990s, may represent the largest single consumer growth market for composite ...