by Working Forest | Apr 4, 2016 | Archives
Northeastern Ontario stands to benefit from a FedNor investment in the Canadian Wood Council’s Ontario Wood Works initiative. The $907,875 contribution was announced Friday morning by Nipissing-Timiskaming MP Anthony Rota at the Metric Aid office on McIntyre Street W....
by Working Forest | Apr 4, 2016 | Archives
Structurlam Products LP is literally reaching new heights in its latest construction projects. That includes the 55-metre, 18-floor Brock Common student residence at the University of B.C. which will be the tallest wood structure in the world. The company is providing...
by Working Forest | Apr 4, 2016 | Articles
Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm have created a transparent wood that can be produced in bulk, the university announced Thursday. Transparent wood isn’t new. Lumber has been fashioned into translucent, minute pieces for the study of wood....
by Working Forest | Apr 4, 2016 | Archives
Scheduled to debut at milan design week 2016, toyota’s ‘setsuna’ concept defies the notion that cars should always be seen technological marvels with the latest gadgets. the unique wooden roadster was conceived to embody the affection owners grow to feel for their...
by Working Forest | Apr 4, 2016 | Archives
Białowieza Forest is the kind of place you imagine from the Grimm fairy tales. Huge firs, oaks and ashes tower over you, woodpeckers and other birds call all around you and the guides who work there know the intimate history, and names, of many individual trees. For...
