Composite wood products have had a bad reputation over the years, being considered a low-cost means of using commercial waste or low-quality wood.
That image is changing, and Fred Kamke is helping make sure it continues to change.
“The old paradigm of growing trees for lumber or pulp is no longer the only option,” Kamke says. “Short-rotation woody crops, intensively grown on a relatively small land area, may be used to produce structural products with properties equal to or better than the highest-grade Douglas-fir lumber.”