Wood Products

Wood is a natural material which is obtained by sawing logs into a desired cross-section. Hence, all wooden parts are, from the outset, of linear shape. Traditional timber structures therefore used to be frameworks of bar-like components. Modern wood technology, however, has made available a wide gamut of industrial-type wood derivates. They allow manipulating the otherwise very demanding basic properties of wood—e. g. its pronounced anisotropy, its tendency to uncontrollable warping—by forming new wooden parts from smaller wooden parts or particles. Thereby, also two-dimensional, plate-like wooden elements can be produced—a novelty in timber construction. Particularly solid-wood derivates have introduced profound changes in the way wood material is used in building constructions.