Concrete manufacturer Heidelberg Materials Precast Contiga and Metsä Wood develop new hybrid element
Swedish concrete manufacturer Heidelberg Materials Precast Contiga and Finnish producer of engineered wood products Metsä Wood, have initiated a cross-industry collaboration to capitalise on the benefits of combining concrete and wood in future building structures. The ambition is to jointly develop and launch a hybrid element with a low carbon footprint.
The collaboration involves starting the development of a new hybrid element that is constructed with both concrete and wood as constituent building material. The result when combining climate-improved concrete with wood, is a new type