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June 2021 #13263 Page #70
CNC = CLT: Growing Mass Timber in Arkansas
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n December 2019, Structurlam Mass Timber Corporation, the leading mass timber manufacturer in North America, announced the expansion of its operations into the United States, with a plant in Conway, Arkansas, set to open in mid-2021. The Canadian-based company, in which Walmart has made an investment, planned to spend $90 million to purchase, retrofit, and equip a former steel plant, thereby creating 130 new jobs and sourcing softwood lumber from Arkansas-grown Southern Pine trees.
By Steve Shrader Business Development / Operations Hundegger USA
Last month (May 2021), I was pleased to visit the new plant and see our Hundegger machines in the final installation stages! Hundegger is proud to be the CNC partner in the new Structurlam CLT factory in Conway, and we are proud to be a part of the Structurlam and Walmart mass timber products. The photos include the Hundegger UFA machine, 1 of 3 CNC machines specifically built for Structurlam. The UFA was designed to square and profile CLT floor and roof panel elements and finish processing them on the underside. And why Walmart? Because Walmart, the first customer of Structurlam’s Conway facility, plans to use more than 1.1 million cubic feet of Arkansas-grown and Arkansas-produced mass timber in its new Home Office campus in Bentonville, Arkansas, making it the largest campus project in the U.S. using mass timber.
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