PORTLAND, Oregon — A 250,000-square-foot cross-laminate timber facility is in the planning stages for a Willamette Valley, Oregon, site. Once completed, the facility is projected to produce an annual output of 100,000 cubic meters of finished CLT products and eliminate "pinch points" in the marketplace.

"Timberlab's objective has been to remove pinch points in the mass timber industry so that timber structures are affordable and widely usable in the U.S. construction market," explained Chris Evans, Timberlab's president. "Over the last four years, we have added two CNC facilities in Portland, OR, and Greenville, SC, focused on expanding the supply chain for mass timber. The increase in mass timber demand, coupled with our successes over the last seven years, is driving us to continue to expand the supply chain by adding our new CLT manufacturing facility in Oregon."

Supported by an investment from parent company Swinerton Inc. the facility will integrate automated processes and is expected to create 100 manufacturing jobs at full capacity – becoming one of the largest facilities in the U.S. 

The company said the mid-Willamette Valley location, which is in the heart of the Pacific Northwest Mass Timber Tech Hub and was designated by the U.S. Department of Commerce's Economic Development Administration (EDA) in 2023, will drive innovation and position Timberlab, Swinerton, and the State of Oregon as catalysts in mass timber construction.