That special sensation of wood
Wood – a fantastic material
A tree has a lifespan of roughly 65–100 years, so treat your lumber with respect; the wood in the board you’re holding in your hand is very old.
Getting to work with the world’s best material
People have been using wood as a building material and for protection and fuel for as long as we have been able to fell trees, from the distant past to the present day. A tradition of using wood is practically ingrained in our genes. Regardless of how you come into contact with wood, whether as a homebuilder, builders’ merchant, joiner, home repairman or, like us, as planing mill workers, you learn that wood is a living material.
This knowledge is in our very fingers. The heft of the board in your hand that tells you it is dry enough to produce a beautiful, smoothly planed surface. The fragrances and the differences in the appearance of the branches teach us to discern distinctions between spruce and fir once the needles have been removed. There is always something new to learn about wood, if only we will open our minds. As a living material, wood has a desire to keep moving forward by adapting itself to the ambient humidity of its surroundings; this can sometimes be a nuisance, reminding us all of the importance of protecting the lumber right up until it reaches its final destination and is installed.
A tree has a lifespan of roughly 65–100 years, so treat your lumber with respect; the wood in the board you’re holding in your hand is very old. The slow-growth forest provides us with lumber quality that will last for generations.
But wood is not just a sustainable material with tradition, it is also the building material of the future, as it is renewable, ecological, environmentally friendly, climate smart and recyclable.
We have some 130 employees at Valbo Trä, and our average employee has been with us for 10 years, giving us a total of roughly 2,340,000 hours of experience, which is a formidable storehouse of knowledge.
