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Timber skyscrapers could be made with Northern Ontario wood Jul 26, 2019 2:36 PM By: Ian Ross
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Element5's conceptual of a Toronto office building using Glulam columns and beams.
Northern Ontario wood will feed the province’s first cross-laminated timber (CLT) plant in southwestern Ontario. Patrick Chouinard, a co-founder of Element5, the operators of a proposed $32-million facility in St. Thomas, said the fibre sourced for their operation will come from the White River area. He said siting a CLT plant in Northern Ontario was their first option when they were deciding where the building was going to go. But after crunching the numbers, Chouinard said it made economic sense for the plant to be close to their customers. “Because of the cost of transportation, it was decided that the plant really had to be in southern Ontario where the majority of our opportunities are.”