A campaign to promote OSB has held a training day to help convert the builders of the future to using the product.
The JOSB Done campaign held the tutorial at Mid-Cheshire College for 30 second-year carpentry and joinery students, with a detailed insight into the manufacture, application, quality and environmental credentials of OSB.
A practical session showed how the product could be used in a variety of building jobs, large and small, with students given the task of making a bookcase from the material.
Alistair Kerr, director-general of the Wood Panel Industries Federation, said the training day was the first event of its kind organised by JOSB Done and the campaign was keen to replicate the success at other colleges in the UK.
JOSB Done promotes OSB as a cost-effective, environmentally sound and tough alternative to uncertified plywood and is backed by Norbord, SmartPly, resin supplier Huntsman and the Wood Panel Industries Federation.
