EWP breakthrough brings tree’s shape into the built environment

Green, low-cost manufacture on a global scale Samling, a major Malaysian vertically integrated ply and timber company, has become the first to recognise the global potential of an Australian engineered wood system that brings most of a tree’s natural shape into the built environment for housing, commercial, and mid-rise, multi-residential apartment buildings. Based at Wollongong in New South Wales Loggo IP Pty Ltd’s low-cost manufacturing process focuses on three multi-patented engineered wood products, each based on retaining the ‘rounded shape and properties of a tree’. “The Loggo concept capitalises on the tree’s natural rounded shape and strength, unlike the present