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 ...

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 ...

Sui-Lee Wee, reporter at the New York Times, discusses her reporting on the RV industry’s reliance on lauan, a tropical wood in southeast Asia. Since the pandemic, demand for recreational vehicles has ...

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 ...

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