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We use wood mainly in the form of sawn timber, its resistance. We carry out long-term tests on our
squared timber or round timber. Larch laminated products and are actively involved in the DIN/EN

timber is particularly convincing with its natural standards committee – after all, environmental
durability, as is robinia wood, which can be protection starts with product development!
installed outdoors without any treatment due to

DID YOU KNOW...

that the forest removes about one tonne of this amounts to around 118 million tonnes
CO2 from the air with every solid metre of of stored CO2 in wood products. Only at the
wood that grows? In the process, 250 kg of end of the product life cycle is the stored

carbon is bound in the wood, bark, twigs, CO2 released. This in turn is absorbed by
leaves and roots and 750 kg of oxygen is renewable trees, creating a closed, neutral
released. In durable wood products, the carbon CO2 cycle.

remains stored for many years. In Germany,

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