Value-added wood products

Value-added wood products (VAWPs, sometimes also called secondary processed wood products) are wood products that have been further processed into furniture, builders’ joinery and carpentry products, profiled wood, and engineered wood products. VAWPs include I-beams (also called I-joists), with their I-shaped cross-sections, finger-jointed sawnwood, glulam (“glued laminated timber” made of sawnwood glued into beams), and laminated veneer lumber (LVL), which is formed by gluing together sheets of veneer and then resawing to desired dimensions. Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a new addition to this chapter; it is now more than an innovative product and has moved solidly into the mainstream.

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