Business View Magazine | November 2020

24 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2020 overall capacity to handle complex projects.” Trees are harvested in the boreal forests of northern Quebec, consisting mainly of black spruce, jack pine, and balsam fir. Nordic Structures’ forestry operations are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Internationally recognized for its robust social and natural resource sustainability standards, this certification ensures Nordic Structures approaches its forest lands with a high level of sensitivity and responsibility, while ensuring benefits for the surrounding communities. “We focus on smaller caliper trees, which requires a dedication of technological resources and imagination to transform into mass timber products,” says Dubois. “However, our manufacturing process is optimized to take advantage of these smaller caliper trees, and we have achieved this through our unique Enviro Lam process, developed by Nordic’s technical and production staff and approved by APA, the certifying agency for engineered wood products.” The Enviro Lam process uses sizes as small as 25 x 50 mm (1 x 2 in.), making it possible to enhance fiber recovery from the whole tree, including side-cuts and the crown. The result is an increase in yield of between 18 and 20 percent compared to other sawmills’ processes. “The Enviro Lam process came not only because of the dedication of resources,” says Dubois, “but also a visionary approach to building a highly efficient and sustainable business.” Nordic Structures serves clients across the entire range of mass timber services depending on each client’s project scope and scale. Dubois emphasizes, “We don’t do a lot of cookie-cutter type projects, so there’s not a lot of replication. For some projects, especially the smaller ones, we supply materials like glulam beams, I-joists, and CLT. For larger projects, we make sure that we guarantee the quality of the installed structure by providing turnkey structural Cross Laminated Timber Construction Technology advances in building materials increase the quantity of mass produced components on construction sites. Cross Laminated Timber is a key element in this construction trend. High impact solutions, created with consumers in mind Partner with us to [be more] reliable www.henkel-adhesives.com