Why Lumber ?

Wood is one of human civilization's most important raw materials.

Wood is the only raw material on the globe that is renewable.

Wood is very energy efficient - it requires one-tenth or less of the energy needed to make wood substitutes such as steel, plastic, concrete and glass.

Wood is very versatile.  Industrial wood has at least 10,000 different uses. Probably no other raw material has been so useful throughout human civilization.

Wood is a sustainable, renewable, natural, attractive product with excellent properties.  

Wood is a very benign material. Wood use, especially as solid wood, poses very few health risks in either manufacture or use.

Wood is a natural living product designed by nature over hundreds of millions of years – strong while light, firm while flexible, malleable, changeable and beautiful.  Wood is very strong for its weight, and is therefore a very good building material that can be easily and inexpensively processed into products such as joinery, furniture and containers.

Wood is a source of inspiration. It has been used to create some of the most stunning, iconic buildings and structures of our time.

The major advantage of wood is its environmental friendliness.  Wood differs greatly from substitutes made with the substantial input of fossil fuels. The carbon dioxide from the use of wood is, within a few decades, recycled back into more wood by regenerating forests. In contrast, the carbon dioxide from fossil fuels remains a permanent addition to the atmosphere. Wood is one of the least polluting of all products used by human civilisation

Because wood has so many environmental and social advantages a strong argument exists that the world should use more wood as opposed to competing product offerings. The best source of wood is a sustainably managed, renewable, plantation forest. LumberLink sources all its supply in accordance with that principle.

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