With the world’s population growing apace, the need for new building materials that are cost effective, safe, widely available and carbon neutral is growing. Engineered timber is an exciting new development that allows skyscrapers to be built primarily from wood.
With the world’s population growing apace, the need for new building materials that are cost effective, safe, widely available and carbon neutral is growing. Engineered timber is an exciting new development that allows skyscrapers to be built primarily from wood.
Timber shortage threatens to send builders to the wall In part two of InDaily’s special report on the national timber shortage, South Australian builders warn of
With behaviour changing as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the price of timber began a steady rise. Whether this was the result of higher demand or market speculation is the topic of some debate.
With the world’s population growing apace, the need for new building materials that are cost effective, safe, widely available and carbon neutral is growing. Engineered timber is an exciting new development that allows skyscrapers to be built primarily from wood.
Timber’s versatility is unrivalled. In a world of plastics and polymers, wood has proven resilient to the massive transformations that took place last century and continues to serve us as well as it did our ancestors. As a material, its robustness, longevity, beauty, strength, and low environmental impact mean it will be as important tomorrow as it is to people today.
Evergreen Forestry is a vertically integrated, sustainably focused forestry company managing seven plantations across the KZN Midlands. Evergreen Forestry grows its own trees for pulp and sawmilling, with an increasing focus on the sawmilling value chain.
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Permanent staff
4900ha
Hectares under management
200,000m³
