Norbord Europe Ltd

A piece of artwork detailing England’s football defeats has sold at auction for £425,000. And the star of the show is MDF!

Glasgow-based shopfitter, Barbour Fit Out, combines a mix of modern techniques and traditional craftsmanship to produce quality shopfittings and, at the heart of many creations is Norbord’s CaberWood MDF portfolio.

Clarus Homes, a successful, innovative housebuilder from Maidstone, Kent, now uses Norbord’s Caberdek P5 particleboard flooring as standard for all of its new homes.

Scottish housebuilder, Tulloch Homes, is trialling Norbord’s permanently protected CaberShieldPlus particleboard flooring at two developments in the Scottish Highlands.

Norbord’s flooring product, CaberShieldPlus, is being used by Sylva Design & Build Solutions at Graven Hill, Bicester where they are creating new affordable homes.

Students at Kingston University’s Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture have been getting to grips with Norbord’s SterlingOSB for an assignment.

As a school-leaver, Daniel Hooper served his time on building sites across Europe. Alongside qualifying as a carpenter, Daniel found himself using scraps of SterlingOSB Zero as ‘canvasses’ for his paintings.

Popular restaurant and bar, Stripped, located in coastal town Ventnor, Isle of Wight, has undergone a complete transformation with stranded board, SterlingOSB, the star of the show.

Few applications demonstrate the physical properties and practical benefits of SterlingOSB more graphically than the new Shred Skatepark (www.shredskatepark.co.uk) in the Scottish town of Ayr.

Norbord’s popular flooring solution, CaberDek, was used during an Army Basing Programme project in Tidworth, Wiltshire. The Army Basing Programme provides housing and improved facilities to Service personnel, helping over 100 Army units to relocate in the UK, following the government’s commitment to bring back all units from Germany by 2020.

Norbord’s SterlingOSB has been chosen for the construction of wall panels at the new visitor centre for the Kelpies, artist Andy Scott’s enormous steel horse-head sculptures near Falkirk, Scotland.

Recycled shipping containers in York are being converted into a community space to offer affordable spaces to start-up businesses. Providing an area where locals have an opportunity to enjoy the city, Spark:York has turned to Norbord to help create a hub for social businesses.

More than 2,000 sheets of Norbord’s 11 mm Sterling OSB 3 have been supplied for the structural timber frame of a new grammar school in Kirkwall, Orkney.

Norbord’s engineered wood panel, SterlingOSB, is a fashionable feature in many bars, restaurants and retail outlets due to the earthy, natural look which is en vogue today. Now the FSC-certified board has made it to the uber-trendy campervan world.

Norbord’s SterlingOSB played a leading role in the construction of a prize-winning display by Welsh garden designer, Robert Hughes (www.roberthughesgardendesign.co.uk), at this year’s RHS Flower Show in Bute Park, Cardiff.

A cycling themed pop up café, Velo Life, has been decked out in sturdy and stylish SterlingOSB Zero.

Norbord’s SterlingOSB is ever increasing in popularity; and not just in timber frame kits where the beauty of the strands is covered. The “bare” engineered wood panel is now seen everywhere in retail displays, office refurbishments, restaurant bars and seating, and uncovered walls where designers aspire to earthy, beautiful, fashionable schemes. Now, for a pioneering artist, it has even replaced the traditional canvas.

Norbord’s SterlingOSB Zero is being seen all over the shop! Graham and Kris, owners of Edinburgh-based children’s clothing and toy store, Bon Tot, chose to fit out the whole shop in the striking panels due to its aesthetic and strength.

Popular in fashionable, modern commercial and residential interior design schemes, as well as being the best walling product for timber frame houses, SterlingOSB, a stranded wood panel, has been used in the Urban Creative hairdressing salon in Seaham to create a stunning industrial look.