If you’ve purchased an American RV at any point in the past several decades, there’s a pretty good chance that at least some part of it was made out of a tropical plywood known as lauan. The RV ...

Lauan is one common name for lumber from a large number (over 120) of species in the Shorea genus. These trees are grown in Southeast Asia, including Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines. There ...

American demand for tropical wood that is used in motor homes, conservationists say, is accelerating the disappearance of some of the world’s largest forests. American demand for tropical wood that is ...

There is no viable alternative to a tropical hardwood that grows in Southeast Asia, according to the American R.V. industry. By Sui-Lee Wee Reporting from West Kalimantan Province, Indonesia The U.S.

The artist’s terrifying wooden sculptures are built with skeletons of 2x4s, layers of wooden flesh, and then skinned with lauan chips. But the sculptures themselves are delicately handmade in Fosik’s ...

Elkhart, Ind.-based Patrick Industries Inc., a component manufacturer for the RV, marine and manufactured housing markets, acquired Elkhart Composites Inc., a manufacturer of alternative-wood sidewall ...

Tropical wood demand from some of America’s top RV brands is fuelling deforestation on the island of Borneo, home to Asia’s last great rainforest, accor­ding to a new investigation by environmental ...