Timber iQ June - July 2017 // Issue: 32 | Page 19

COVER STORY U niversal Plywoods is primarily a plywood specialist group and has successfully ventured into the wood engineering sector with products like Laminated Veneer Lumber (LVL); UPM Grada thermoformable wood panels; Delignit-made Beechwood plywood, which is approved and used by Passenger Rail Agency of South Africa (PRASA) and Bombardier high speed trains for train floor panels; and WISA-BusFloor for the bus floor industries. With various projects on the go, Universal Plywoods has also partnered with Earthworld Architects to supply all the LVL beams for the roof structure of the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa Campus. They supplied large panels of Birch plywood for the portal frame