Dowel Lam Timber

DowelLam is a global leader in mass timber manufacturing, recognized for delivering Dowel Laminated Timber (DLT) panels in significant projects across North America.   By merging traditional doweling with cutting-edge machinery and automation, we deliver mass timber panels that are free of metal and adhesives between laminations. Since 2017, our team has built over 3 million square feet (about 300,000 square meters) of DLT and Acoustic DLT across every project type, including educational, office, institutional, public and residential buildings.

DLT, as the first all-wood mass timber panel, uses hardwood dowels (rather than glue or nails) to bond the edgewise softwood dimensional lumber strands together, resulting in an architectural, strong structural panels ideal for floors, roofs, and walls. DowelLam offers unique advantages to owners and designers, including structural efficiency, sustainability, architectural quality, and large panel sizes.

We are the leading supplier of Acoustic DLT (ADLT), a high-performance panel which integrates a built-in acoustically-absorptive ceiling into the underside of the DLT panel, allowing the mass timber to remain exposed while meeting both structural and noise reduction demands. 

In 2017, StructureCraft brought this technology to the North American market with the world’s largest automated DLT manufacturing line.  In 2025, as demand for the DLT product continued to grow, StructureCraft formed the DowelLam division to focus on the full-service design-assist and supply of DLT to clientele across North America.

DowelLam's Abbotsford facility is a state-of-the-art 50,000- square-foot manufacturing hub designed to produce DLT, the largest such facility in the world. The facility houses advanced equipment and automation, enabling the efficient production of panels over 60 feet long, with precise control over panel dimensions and dowel placement to meet structural and architectural requirements. The production process integrates computer-based technology with sustainable practices to produce minimum waste. From lumber grading, visual optimization and finger-jointing to moulding, pressing, CNC milling, and coatings, the entire facility is optimized for quality and efficiency. Panels are customized with profiles for aesthetic or acoustic purposes and can be reinforced with structural sheathing or screw systems for enhanced performance. Automated notching and coating ensure panels are ready for site installation, while engineers review dowel placement and panel configurations to meet project-specific demands. This integrated approach has allowed our facility to deliver over 3 million sqft (about 300,000 square meters) of high-quality DowelLam panels used across North America in over 150 projects to date.