Trailer manufacturer Cartwright relies on Metsä Wood’s plywood flooring – designed for industrial durability

Cartwright Group has one of the most efficient bodywork and trailer manufacturing plants in Europe. The Group manufactures more than 3,000 trailers a year.

Cartwright builds most of their trailers with Metsä Wood’s Birch Ply Floor 500 plywood flooring, designed for optimal industrial durability.

Birch Ply Floor 500 makes business sense for Cartwright. “There is a good balance between Metsä Wood’s delivery profile, their engineering and the product’s durability properties. This results in cost benefits, making Floor 500 good value for money."

Open Source Wood Innovation Award given to an active member

Metsä Wood’s Open Source Wood is an initiative to share knowledge and innovations in the field of wood construction between construction professionals globally. The platform’s first ever Innovation Award has been presented to engineer and architect Paul Esombi Ekema for his achievements in advancing the idea of Open Source Wood.

The goal of Open Source Wood is to make professionals from different sides of the construction industry come together globally and rethink the way wood is used as a construction material.

“Selecting materials for construction sometimes depends on how familiar the architect or engineer is with what is available,” Ekema says. “Therefore, the platform further enriches and empowers technicians and the wider community to understand materials better.”

A wooden Metsä Pavilion in Tokyo during the 2020 Olympic Games

​Metsä Group and Business Finland are joining forces in building a wooden Metsä pavilion to be used in Tokyo during the Olympic games. The pavilion will be built on the grounds of the Finnish Embassy in the centre of Tokyo, Japan.

The building will be made entirely from Metsä Wood’s Kerto® LVL (laminated veneer lumber) elements. This pavilion is an example of innovative architecture based on industrially manufactured wooden elements. The pavilion has been designed by world-renowned Finnish architect Pekka Helin from Helin & Co Architects.

The raw material for the pavilion comes from sustainably grown Finnish forests, owned by Jukka Heikkonen. 

The structural design of the Metsä Pavilion has been done by a Finnish company, AINS Group. Project Manager Lasse Hietanen is responsible for the structural design of the Metsä Pavilion. The main goal was to create this unique building using as few parts as possible, making the production of Kerto LVL as efficient as possible.

European LVL handbook has been published!

New European LVL handbook is the first comprehensive summary of the properties and end uses of LVL products. It has been compiled and published by the woodworking industry. The handbook is an extensive source of information for designers, engineers and builders.

The LVL handbook was published on September 26, 2019 at the Forum Wood Building Nordic conference in Helsinki. You can download the LVL handbook as pdf. 

The Federation of the Finnish Woodworking Industries and the German Studiengemeinschaft Holzleimbau published on behalf of the LVL producers a joint technical bulletin that specifies the strength classes, tolerances and additional design provisions for LVL. The calculations in the LVL Handbook are based on this bulletin.

The Technical bulletin is available on website https://puutuoteteollisuus.fi/images/pdf/LVL_bulletin_eng.pdf  

The era of extensions is now – light wood is the optimal building material

The natural qualities of wood – lightness and strength – bring multiple positive consequences for both individual constructors and societies undergoing heavy urbanisation. According to experts, one of the areas of wood construction with most potential is extension building. Wooden materials like Metsä Wood’s Kerto® LVL (laminated veneer lumber) make construction fast, light and green.

Concrete formwork from PERI

PERI uses Metsä Wood’s birch plywood in its concrete formwork systems. The Birch Ply panels are used to construct tall concrete walls and slabs on construction sites and to provide the necessary industrial durability. Most importantly, birch plywood gives a high-quality finish that meets the needs of construction companies.

PERI and Metsä Wood have been cooperating since the 1980s. This close cooperation ensures the quality and that customers’ needs are fulfilled. PERI meticulously tests all birch plywood panels.