Floor elements

Advanced construction requires advanced solutions. Whether you are using the Kerto LVL panels, beams, or the glued Kerto Ripa elements; Metsä Wood Kerto LVL offers sustainability and high performance for your project.

Due to its stiffness, Kerto LVL is a smart material to use as a beam or a panel in your floor construction. The product offers the contractor, off-site builder, developer and architect a variety of benefits including design flexibility, efficient off-site construction and rapid installation. You may be planning residential housing, multi-storey building, office, school or retail, we are confident that you can make it with LVL.

Kerto-Ripa system

Wooden floor elements based on Kerto-Ripa® design system, are ideal for intermediate floors with spans between 5 and 10m and it can also reach longer spans up to 15m. Made from Kerto LVL they can have open (T-element) or closed (Box) construction and be insulated to the client´s exact requirements.

The element consist out of structural glued Kerto-LVL components and enables you to build your project with a very rigid flooring structure.  The certified gluing technology allows to make elements even to very large spans. Accessible roofs, cantilevers, integrated installations, top slab connection and other configurations are also possible according to customer specification.

These efficient and hollow elements are produced under controlled environment in factories and are delivered with CE-mark by certified partners. Imagine an element that can handle bracing, sound, fire, installations, saving height, …. all one package!

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