Lamco Process / Quality Control / Sustainability

THE PROCESS for both Structural & Architectural products uses patented Tongue & Grove Edge and Finger-Joint Technology.

It allows LAMCO to make very strong, high quality & green engineered wood products:

VIDEO OF THE PROCESS OF MAKING LAMCO ENGINEERED WOOD PRODUCTS

PROCESS:

• Raw Materials: 2x4 & 2x6 are cut into short lengths, tested for moisture & pieces with major defects are removed to ensure consistency & stability.
  
• Profiling: The LAMCO Joint (double tongue & groove) is profiled, removing minor edge defects.
• Pannelizing: The small profiled boards are glued and assembled into panels
• Ripping: Panels are ripped to the final desired depth or its multiple (up to 16")
• Finger Jointing: Short boards are finger jointed into long boards of the desired length (up to 32'1")
  
• In-Line Testing: Each board is tension tested to ensure structural integrity.
• Planing & Labeling: The product is planed, stamped & labeled in accordance with 3rd party inspection guidelines.
• Final Inspection & Packaging: Each piece in inspected again then carefully packaged before shipping.
  

QUALITY CONTROL:

For every production according to quality control manual, a sample piece is removed from the production line to be tested for BENDING, TENSION, DELAMINATION & SHEAR in our Lab. Our quality control procedures are certified and randomly inspected by a 3rd party auditor (CIFQ/PFS Corporation)

SUSTAINABILITY:

RAW MATERIAL OPTIMIZATION:

• Since we only needs short 2X4, 2X5 & 2X6 to start with, the LAMCO process can turn small Black Spruce & Jack Pine boards into long & wide products, optimizing the natural strength of slow growth trees of Northern Quebec.

LESS GLUE:

• Once dry, glue is less than 1% of the volume of our products, meeting California Air Resource Board (CARB) standards. Our glue is accepted in LEED projects.             

NO WOOD WASTE, NO WATER USED:

• Cut-offs are reintroduced into production or together with wood shavings, converted to wood pellets.
• Our low temperature kilns uses less energy and no water using heat pump technology.

REDUCED WASTE at your factory or job site:

• Exact lengths ordered mean no waste for you & less assembly time.
• Custom depths not limited to conventional sizes can optimize your designs & reduce the volumes needed.
• LAMCO warrants 100% of our products are usable for their intended application.

SUSTAINABILITY OF WOOD in general:

• Reduced energy consumption for heating and cooling: Wood is a better insulator than concrete or steel.
• The energy used to produce wood building alternatives to steel or concrete reduces fossil fuels consumed, resulting in 16% to 26% less impact on Global Warming.
• Using wood as a building product creates carbon sequestration (captures carbon).
• Wood outperforms competitors in Life Cycle Assessment  
• To read more on wood design & sustainability                                       

Our passion is to produce the Greenest Engineered Wood building solutions