Largest CLT plant in the world to be build in Montana, U.S.

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SmartLam plans to build a new wood products plant at Columbia Falls Industrial Park, United States. When completed it will be the largest cross-laminated timber plant in the world, U.S. Sen. Jon Tester said (quoted by flatheadnewsgroup.com) during a meeting with city officials and business leaders at Freedom Bank on March 20.

According to Casey Malmquist, SmartLam general manager, also present at the meeting, the company is in talks with the industrial park's new Canadian owners about plans for construction of a new manufacturing plant to produce the giant wood panels.

“We plan to quadruple our capacity, which will make us the largest CLT plant in the world,” Malmquist told Tester, as quoted by flatheadnewsgroup.com.

SmartLam’s panels are made with low-grade dimensional lumber from F.H. Stoltze Land & Lumber Co. that are sawn into smaller pieces and finger-jointed and planed into a 2-inch product that is then cross-laminated into large, heavy and very strong panels.

Currently the panels are being used in the oil industry for drilling rig platforms, bridges and roadways, but SmartLam wants to start producing panels for building construction, which is common in Europe.

Malmquist enumerated the environmental benefits of replacing concrete and steel with renewable and sustainable wood products.

“There still needs to be a cultural change,” he said. “People still think cutting down a tree is wrong.”

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