{"id":17765,"date":"2024-05-17T14:49:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T04:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/?p=17765"},"modified":"2024-10-21T20:19:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-21T10:19:26","slug":"america-turns-to-glulam-as-global-demand-set-to-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/america-turns-to-glulam-as-global-demand-set-to-soar\/","title":{"rendered":"America Turns to Glulam as Global Demand Set to Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The global glue-laminated timber market (GLT) could reach US $6.22 billion over the next decade,\u00a0fuelled by growth in the United States, with China and India driving a surge in glulam manufacturing across the Asia-Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That is according to a new report published by\u00a0Spherical Insights, which estimates that the global market for glulam will jump from US $4.1 billion last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes after Wood Central\u00a0revealed that the global market for cross-laminated timber\u00a0is expected to triple, largely fuelled by growth in Australia, Japan, China, and India.<\/a>\u00a0However, like CLT, Europe and North America are the industry’s engine rooms,\u00a0with both capitalising on the push to use glulam over steel-and-concrete systems to reduce embodied carbon.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Download the report<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday, Timberlab\u2014one of North America’s largest mass timber manufacturers\u2014announced that it would acquire American Laminators (previously known as Swinerton Mass Timber), adding to major investments in new CLT plants in March<\/a>. According to Christopher Evans, Timberlab’s President, the deal “is a leap forward to advancing our capabilities and services across the mass timber industry.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Timberlab President Chris Evans<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
American Laminated, previously known as Swinerton Mass Timber was behind the Hidden Creek Gym glulam roof. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Under the deal, Timberlab – which has split the company into Timberlab Laminators (for manufacturing) from Timberlab (for consulting) – will acquire American Laminators’s two glulam mills in Oregon – which together have a capacity of 20 million board feet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to Dave Anderson, President of American Laminators parent company, Diversified Wood Resources, the acquisition is “an exciting time for the future of American Laminators.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“By combining our strengths and expertise, we are well-positioned to expand in the mass timber market while continuing to provide superior service, quality, and craftsmanship,” Mr Anderson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 2,000 mass timber buildings, many with CLT floors and Glulam columns and beams, are rising across the United States,\u00a0with demand expected to surge in the coming years<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This includes Portland’s new Mass Timber Airport, which is set to open in August, which combines CLT (manufactured by Timberlab) and Glulam columns and beams (supplied by Zip-O-Log Mills) in the world’s largest timber-based airport project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The global glue-laminated timber market (GLT) could reach US $6.22 billion over the next decade,\u00a0fuelled by growth in the United States, with China and India driving a surge in glulam manufacturing across the Asia-Pacific. That is according to a new report published by\u00a0Spherical Insights, which estimates that the global market for glulam will jump from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16501,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[51,37,47,46,39],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[70],"class_list":{"0":"post-17765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-americas","8":"category-building-and-construction","9":"category-commercial","10":"category-industry","11":"category-mass-timber"},"authors":[{"term_id":70,"user_id":2,"is_guest":0,"slug":"jason","display_name":"Jason Ross","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/J-Ross-headshot.jpeg","url2x":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/J-Ross-headshot.jpeg"},"0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17768,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17765\/revisions\/17768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17765"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodcentral.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=17765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}