Major N. American CLT producer temporarily suspends operations at one plant

Structurlam Mass Timber Corporation is temporarily suspending operations and reducing staff at its Conway, Arkansas, plant due to a customer contract cancellation. Matthew Karmel, CEO of Structurlam Mass Timber Corporation, explained that since the company is no longer constrained by its exclusive production agreement, it now has the ability to support new customers with more than 1 million cubic feet annually of Glulam and CLT mass-timber products. “To put this into context, the state-of-the-art Conway plant has a capacity sufficient to construct a 200,000 square foot office building every two months,” he added ...