As North America’s largest producer of Southern Yellow Pine glue-laminated beams (glulam), Anthony Forest Products Company, LLC (a Canfor Corporation company) engineered wood products operations offer a wide variety of glulam for commercial and residential applications.
Anthony Power Beam® is designed for use as primary support beams, and matches I-Joist depths and nominal wall widths for flush framing and are manufactured in framing appearance grade. Power Beam® is the strongest engineered wood product (EWP) on the market with design values of 3000Fb - 2.1E - 300Fv.
Power Beam® is a laminated composite product of high-strength lumber. This randomizes any natural defect so there is greater beam strength and a higher degree of reliability. There is also less likelihood of warping, twisting, checking, cupping or shrinkage. Power Beam® is surfaced sealed with a wax coating.
Glulam offer a wide variety of uses in commercial and residential applications including concealed beams, short span headers, garage door headers, roof beams, purlins, floor girders, trusses and deck panels in Mass Timber wood framing systems. Manufactured with superior strength southern yellow pine MSR Lumber. Available in widths from 27⁄16" to 103⁄4" and depths from 31⁄2" to 287⁄8".
Stock and Custom Glulam are available in a range of appearance grades for structural and architectural applications. Glulam falls under the building code category of heavy timber, therefore has excellent fire performance.