We believe the PNW can become a globally competitive cluster of mass timber manufacturing and design within ten years.
We will connect manufacturers and real estate developers with investors and lenders, streamline certification pathways for new products, and provide robust market, financial, and technical performance data.
Our Hub will benefit urban and rural communities equally, alleviate housing shortages, ameliorate climate-related threats, and address national security challenges such as reliance on foreign-sourced steel.
European producers, who began using this technology more than twenty years ago, are increasingly targeting our market.
Our Hub will improve production efficiencies and speed up lab to market product innovation.
We will address known concerns by increasing access to fiber and growing the pool of diverse workers with the skills needed to propel our companies to global leadership.
- Build upon Oregon’s and Washington’s traditional timber industry strengths as the nation’s #1 and #2 producers of lumber
- Leverage the early mass timber leadership in our companies and excellent university-based R&D capacity
- Deploy a multifaceted set of programs that will move our mass timber sector from its current position of U.S. leader to one of sustained global competitiveness
