Scrimber at the Lucerne Forestry Fair

We all know that we emit far too much fossil CO₂. To compensate for this, we try to capture and store some of it using complex technologies and expensive machinery. The forest does the same. But unlike machines, it does so silently and for free. Do you know how much CO₂ a tree absorbs as it grows and stores in its branches, trunk and roots? Up to twenty tons! That's roughly equivalent to the CO₂ emissions from 150,000 kilometers of car travel. The Swiss forest thus relieves our air of ten million tonnes of CO₂ a year. But have we so far used the benefits of the forest wisely? After all, when a tree burns or decomposes, the same amount is released again.

Absorbing CO2 and transforming it into building products

Scrimber is a new opportunity to manufacture building products from the CO₂ sequestered in trees. Whole trees are laminated and transformed into building products - each cubic metre of scrimmer therefore contains one tonne of CO₂. Once incorporated into buildings, the greenhouse gas remains trapped over the long term. Buildings and cities thus become CO₂ reservoirs. This is an important contribution to climate protection.