Project contact is Lech Muszynski, Oregon State University College of Forestry (United States)
Summary
This research is a continuation of a long-term effort of systematically monitoring developments in the global CLT industry launched by the PI in 2011 and since 2017 partially funded by an ARS/TDI grant.
Overall, including research conducted before ARS funding, this effort has involved two surveys launched in 2016 and in 2019; 46 targeted site tours of CLT manufacturing lines located in the USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, China, France, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Estonia; and an extensive review of trade journals tracking the development of the CLT industry. While adhesive-bonded CLT remains the main focus of the research, beginning with 2017 the survey also included two related mass timber panel (MTP) products classified as glueless CLT (massive cross-laminated timber panels bonded with nails and hardwood dowels), MTP hardware manufacturers, construction sites and research laboratories concerned with MTP related research.
To-date we have created and populated a unique database covering more than 116 manufacturing plants (including more than 60 CLT lines) across the globe. The database includes information on MTP manufacturers within and outside the MTP industry cluster, including: changes in production capacity and dominant technologies in global MTP production; key success factors and constraints determining the emergence and growth of production; differences in perception of opportunities, risks, challenges and constraints; related business models, strategies, contextual policies, and; the role of innovation systems.