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News From MTI Hello Mass Timber Colleagues! This month we are very pleased to feature an exciting piece of news: A status update on Element5's plant in St. Thomas.
Feature: Element5 Plant
Exterior rendering of Element5’s St. Thomas factory and office. Rendering courtesy of Element5. The mass timber construction revolution is poised to surge ahead in central Canada as construction of Element5’s new 12,320 m2 factory in St. Thomas, Ontario, achieved some exciting milestones this month. The principal manufacturing building has been assembled and production equipment is arriving daily. Element5 is installing a state-of-the-art CLT and glulam line manufactured by Ledinek. The press can produce various layups / thicknesses of CLT; panels can be made up to 16m in length and 3.5m in width. At 3.5m, Element5 will soon be producing the widest panels in Canada. Mass timber projects will benefit from the design and material efficiencies this wider format panel provides including fewer panels, less lifting time, and a reduced number of connections. The fully integrated production line does everything - from lumber conditioning and finger-jointing of lam-stock to sanding and CNC machining of the finished components. The line also features Ledinek’s new ‘Z-Press’ which