AR-News: (AU) Saves the environment

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Major advances in timber processing technology are leading Australian 
builders towards integrated systems of engineered wood products (EWP) such as the 
Silent Floor system manufactured by Trus Joist from Pine Solutions, which 
minimises impacts on the environment because it makes more efficient use of a tree’s 
wood fibre.

While alternatives like steel are promoted as “stronger, stiffer, straighter”
 choices, a material’s structural quality is more an issue of overall 
performance. Although wood-based EWPs are manufactured to minimise timber’s natural, 
strength-reducing defects such as knots and pitch pockets and to reduce 
bowing, twisting, shrinking and other changes in shape.





full story:

http://www.infolink.com.au/articles/40/0c01e740.asp 
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