Treated Laminated Strand Lumber
They cut pine aspen and other soft woods into strands less than one foot long then pressure bond them using a waterproof adhesive.
Treated laminated strand lumber. 1 1 4 inch 1 1 1 2 inch 14 1 3 4 inch 103 5 1 4 inch 6 actual width. These are oriented for maximum strength and glued together into 8 foot by 64 foot billets using a steam injection process which was patented by macmillan bloedel. Lsl factories typically use soft fast growing wood in place of slow growth hardwoods. Lsl provides attributes such as high strength high stiffness and dimensional stability.
When making a selection below to narrow your results down each selection made will reload the page to display the desired results. Laminated strand lumber is good for the environment and builders alike. Timberstrand by weyerhaeuser offers a range of features for manufacturers of components such as rails runners posts frames and cleats. The manufacturing process of lsl enables large members to be made from relatively small trees providing efficient utilization of forest resources.
Laminated veneer lumber 103 pressure treated glulam beam 3 actual thickness. Laminated strand lumber lsl is one of the more recent structural composite lumber scl products to come into widespread use. Lsl beams and columns are made by shredding wood from fast growing low value hardwood logs such as aspen birch and poplar into thin strands. Laminated strand lumber lsl mjb offers a domestic laminated strand lumber lsl product for applications where strength and durability are critical and where the surface of the raw material will not be seen.