Laminated Truss Beams

This page describes engineered building products carried by abc truss such as laminated beams arches and other engineered wood products.
Laminated truss beams. Glue laminated glulam beams timber technologies glue laminated beams are superior in all strength characteristics to solid sawn lumber and pound for pound stronger than steel. Glulam beams and trusses glu laminated beams have been around for 150 years and commonly used in construction of over 80 years. It is typically used for headers beams rimboard and edge forming material. Rigidply rafters inc has been manufacturing glue laminated products since 1954.
We are one of only a few distributors in cape town that stock supply large quantities. Our titan timber beams resist checking and twisting and are jobsite ready. Our titan timber beams resist checking and twisting and are job site ready with one piece construction and more cost efficient than lvl and psl. Laminated beams are superior in all strength characteristics to solid sawn lumber.
Not only do we supply builders carpenters roof contractors and the public our laminated beams are now also available to other truss plants and retailers at wholesale prices. It is the system of gluing individual sawn lumber beams together usually 2x lumber in the same direction to form a larger and stronger beam significantly stronger compared to a similarly sized solid sawn beam. Laminated veneer lumber lvl is an engineered wood product that uses multiple layers of thin wood assembled with adhesives. The standard truss configurations listed here can be fabricated by using straight glulam glue laminated beams.
Timber technologies glue laminated beams are superior in all strength characteristics to solid sawn lumber and pound for pound stronger than steel. Trusjoist microllam lvl by weyerhaeuser. Because of the laminated construction technique beam depth can be supplied much larger than solid timbers which are normally limited to 16 20 inches of depth with beams up to 60 deep having been manufactured. Glue laminated trusses glulam truss beam thickness is normally 3 7 but can be larger.