Consistent manufacturing from logs to final products.
CLT stands for "Cross Laminated Timber," which is referred to as "cross-laminated timber" in Japanese. It is a wood product made by gluing together layers of boards (lamina) with their fiber directions oriented perpendicular to each other. Developed in Austria in the 1990s, it is a new wood construction material that is now being adopted in buildings across Europe and North America, rapidly gaining popularity.
CLT achieves large thicknesses, widths, and lengths that were not possible with existing wood products. It enables the use of wood in large-scale and mid-rise buildings, which were previously difficult to construct with wood, in addition to small-scale structures like wooden houses. High-rise buildings utilizing CLT are being constructed in North America and Europe.
In Japan, CLT has also gained attention, with the establishment of the JAS (Japanese Agricultural Standards) manufacturing standards in December 2013, and the announcement and enforcement of building code notifications related to CLT in April 2016. This has initiated the general use of CLT, and mid-rise wooden buildings using CLT have also begun. Our company started manufacturing JAS-compliant CLT in July 2018.
