Structural Board Association Profile

Structural Board Association:
25 Valleywood Drive, Unit 27
Markham, Ontario, Canada L3R 5L9
Phone: 905-475-1100
Fax: 905-475-1101
Or Contact Us Online

Founded in Canada in 1976, the Structural Board Association (SBA) represents leading Oriented Strand Board (OSB) mills around the world. The Association is incorporated in Canada and the U.S. and its name and logo are now registered in Canada, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

As the structural wood panel industry's authoritative source for OSB product and technical information, the SBA manages an extensive market and member driven OSB research and technical development program. In recent years, industry groups including SBA have been active in educating architects, builders, consumers, specifiers and engineers about OSB's performance characteristics.

The SBA was formed to represent various OSB mills in the United States, Canada and offshore. The SBA efforts were targeted at gaining building code acceptance, developing product standards, and coordinating the promotional and technical activities of those mills.

Starting with the National Building Code, the association relentlessly pursued product acceptance in Canada, America and offshore with the objective of convincing specifiers, builders, and contractors of the performance and value in using oriented strand board or OSB.

OSB received national attention in the late seventies with the introduction of the first American performance standard for OSB. This named OSB as an equal alternative to plywood for use as a sheathing product, and destined oriented strand board (OSB) to be the successor to the earlier developed product known as waferboard.

^Top | Home < About SBA < Structural Board Association Profile