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 ...

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 ...

Investigations by the NGOs Earthsight, Auriga Nusantara and Mighty Earth have found that plywood from forests cleared in Indonesian Borneo — including critical orangutan habitat — is ending up in U.S.

Jakarta (AFP) – Tropical wood demand from some of America's top RV brands is fuelling deforestation on the Indonesian island of Borneo, home to Asia's last great rainforest, according to a new ...

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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 ...