Fact Sheet Published On 60-Day BBA Certified CaberShield Eco By West Fraser

Incorporating all the familiar benefits of CaberFloor P5 plus a super resilient protective surface , CaberShield Eco is the new and greenest answer for laying decks in challenging conditions. As a manufacturer of panel products using responsibly sourced and certified timber, West Fraser has now published a useful fact sheet outlining the product’s highly sustainable credentials: underlining why CaberShield Eco represents the future for weather-decking. As well as listing

A Staple Component In Homes Since 1966!

MDF is a staple component in most homes; the panel product has been around since 1966 when West Fraser’s CaberMDF was introduced to the building market. It can be sawn, drilled, shaped, and routed cleanly with minimum fuss, using hand or machine tools and looks good as the sm ooth surface of the panels is ideal for painting , veneers, or paper foils. Photograph courtesy of Unsplash CaberMDF plays hide and seek around the home; it can be an architectural feature, fa s cia

Worsening Weather Underlines The Benefits Of CaberShield Eco From West Fraser

A growing number of building contractors, and especially timber frameerection specialists, are making use of the weather protected panel products within the West Fraser range, allowing them to carry on working effectively despite increasingly wet winters and even the more frequent tropical-like downpours of the summer. The newest addition to West Fraser’s range is CaberShield Eco , which is t he company’s latest eco-friendly option for creating high specification, waterproof

Timber Treading Lightly On The Landscape - The Future For Carbon Negative Building Materials

It was back in 2012 in its Living Planet Report when the World Wildlife Fund asserted that , if the Western developed nations continued with their pattern of consumption, we would need three planet’s worth of resources by 2050. During the years since then, consumerism and population have expanded across regions like Africa and parts of Asia, with supposedly sustainable activities such as sourcing the minerals required for electrical vehicles steadily scarring once pristi

The Unifying Power Of SterlingOSB Zero

As the annual SterlingOSB Zero/RIBAJ competition celebrated its 10th anniversary, the 2025 competition entitled Powers of Ten, challenged architects to explore the principles of scale. Entrants were unrestricted by building standards and were free to play with the concept of scale and design a structure from competition sponsor West Fraser 's SterlingOSB Zero . Pictured are architects Olivia Dolan and Sem van der Straaten, with West Fraser's marketing manager, David Connache

Kashdan-Brown Architects Reaches For The Sky With SterlingOSB Zero

As the annual SterlingOSB Zero/RIBAJ competition celebrated its 10th anniversary, the 2025 competition entitled Powers of Ten , challenged architects to explore the principles of scale. Entrants were unrestricted by building standards and were free to play with the concept of scale and design a structure from competition sponsor West Fraser's SterlingOSB Zero . This year's competition winner, Kashdan-Brown Architects, imagined a 1:10 scale model reconstruction of the 140-m

Engineered Wood: The Environmental And Economic Benefits

David Connacher, Marketing Manager of West Fraser, discusses the benefits of engineered wood panels It is well accepted that the use of timber panel products began a century back when plywood was first manufactured in quantity . Aeons beforehand, the E gyptians also came to understand the benefit of gluing sections of timber together, enhancing the natural strength of wood fibres by alternating the direction of the grain. Today, as mankind struggles with huge population gr

West Fraser Helps Housebuilders Meet Net Zero Targets

West Fraser has always been committed to being at the environmental forefront within its industry. The company promotes the benefits of sustainable forestry , w ith young, fast-growing trees being the lungs of Earth, breathing in carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen during the day to help generate a healthy world in which we can all thrive . The company’s well - managed stocks also provide the raw material for the company’s panel products. As well as planting more trees

SterlingOSB Zero Is A Picnic For Architects

As the annual SterlingOSB Zero/RIBAJ competition celebrated its 10th anniversary, the 2025 competition entitled Powers of Ten, challenged architects to explore the principles of scale. Entrants were unrestricted by building standards and were free to play with the concept of scale and design a structure from competition sponsor West Fraser 's SterlingOSB Zero . Pictured is West Fraser's marketing manager, David Connacher, and Steve McCloy This year's commended winners, St

Pinewood Structures Using SterlingOSB Zero Across Its Offsite Systems

A specialist timber engineering company, active throughout East Anglia and the Home Counties, is making extensive use of West Fraser ’s SterlingOSB Zero in the production of its diverse offering of high performance, sustainable offsite solutions. Based in the village of Gamlingay on the Cambridgeshire-Bedfordshire border, Pinewood Structures was established in 1981 and has grown steadily to become one of the UK’s foremost suppliers of timber-based systems across a variety o