Oregon is the number one producer in the United States of softwood lumber, plywood and engineered wood products. Because Oregon is one of the best places to grow trees, and because of our best-in-class forest practices, we have led the nation in the production of highly sought-after softwood lumber and plywood for decades. This production supports a wide range of wood products such as lumber for home-building, paper products, cardboard, cabinets, furniture, heating pellets, biomass energy production, shipping pallets, and even pencils, musical instruments, and – with the use of cellulose fiber – rayon and cellophane.
Oregon is also the leader in producing engineered wood products such as cross-laminated timber (CLT), glue-laminated timber (glulam), and mass plywood panels (MPP). Wood grown in Oregon helps meet a growing world-wide demand for renewable, carbon-friendly building materials. Powered purely by sunlight and rain, trees absorb carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) from the air and turn it into oxygen and wood. As a result, half of the dry weight of wood is carbon.
Wood products are the only renewable, carbon-friendly building products. Investing in advanced wood products technology like mass timber provides strong and stable alternatives to traditional more carbon-intensive materials. These new options allow developers to build with greater environmental and aesthetic value while reducing a building’s carbon footprint and the cost of construction through custom-engineered panels. In fact, for every ton of carbon stored in wood structures, more than two tons of carbon emissions are avoided because carbon-intensive alternatives weren’t used.
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