
Wood’s advantages
Some wood’s advantages Wood benefits as a raw material: The best wood for the manufacture of plywood is that which comes from forest plantations. Unlike concrete or metals, wood is a building material that can be grown and regrown through natural processes and also through replanting and forestry management programs. Select harvesting and other practices allow growth to continue while larger trees are harvested. Wood is renewable. While the forests are growing, they are also naturally removing carbon dioxide from the environment. The process of manufacturing timber uses largely less fossil fuel energy per unit volume than steel, concrete, or