Structural Composite Lumber (SCL) - APA – The Engineered Wood …
Structural composite lumber (SCL), which includes laminated veneer lumber (LVL), parallel strand lumber (PSL), laminated strand lumber (LSL) and oriented strand lumber (OSL), is a family of engineered wood products created by layering dried and graded wood veneers, strands or flakes with moisture-resistant adhesive into blocks of material known ...
LSL vs. LVL vs. PSL vs. Glulam: Composite Lumber | SFS USA - SFS …
Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) LVL leverages heat and pressure to bind thinly sliced veneers parallel to one another, a process that is particularly accommodating to narrow beam dimensions. Its shear strength is superior to LSL but doesn’t quite match PSL’s ability to …
Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) - APA – The Engineered Wood …
Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a large-scale, prefabricated, solid engineered wood panel. Lightweight yet very strong, with superior acoustic, fire, seismic and thermal performance, CLT is also fast and easy to install, generating almost no waste onsite. CLT offers design flexibility and low environmental impacts.
WHAT ARE SCL AND GLULAM? Structural composite lumber (SCL) and glulam tim-bers are recognized as rectangular shaped products that have strength, stiffness, and consistency resulting from wood fiber orientation and strict manufacturing process control. Advancements in technology have given SCL manufacturers the ability to take apart a smaller ...
Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) as a Construction Material
Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is one of the most widely used engineered wood products for constructional applications. It is a composite product manufactured from multiple thin layers of veneer that are aligned with the length of the finished lumber.
First used during World War II to make airplane propellers, laminated veneer lumber (LVL) has been available as a construction product since the mid-1970s. LVL is the most widely used structural composite lumber (SCL) product because of …
Laminated Beams & Rafters | Timber Technologies Products
Timber Technologies Glue Laminated Beams are superior in all strength characteristics to solid sawn lumber and pound for pound, stronger than steel. Our Titan Timber® beams resist checking and twisting and are job site ready with one-piece construction and …
Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL) as a Construction Material
Laminated veneer lumber (LVL) is a high-strength engineered timber formed by bonding multiple thin wood veneers layer by layer using adhesives. LVL was developed to use new species and smaller trees that cannot be used to make solid sawn lumber.
Laminated strand lumber (LSL) - naturally:wood
LSL is used primarily as structural framing for residential, commercial and industrial construction. It is suitable for headers and beams, tall wall studs, rim board, sill plates, millwork and window framing. LSL also offers good fastener-holding strength. It can also be left exposed as a …
Glulam/SCL - American Wood Council
Glulam is produced in laminating plants by gluing together layers of sawn lumber to form large timbers that retain the traditional beauty of wood along with increased and engineered strength. Glulam is typically constructed with laminate layers (called lams), glued together.