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Plywood in practice: New home construction in Texas

Plywood has been the engineered wood product of choice for American homebuilders for almost a century. To understand why, we asked several industry experts in what is arguably the United States’ hottest housing market — Texas — to discuss plywood, the uses to which they put it, and why.

Plywood has been the engineered wood product of choice for American homebuilders for almost a century.

Thanks to its exceptional strength, flexibility, and cost-effectiveness, plywood has continued to hold its own, even as the lumber industry has evolved and new products, such as oriented strand board (OSB), have entered the market.

To understand why, we asked several industry experts in what is arguably the United States’ hottest housing market — Texas — to discuss plywood, the uses to which they put it, and why.

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