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Adding a product line is easy. Adding one that lives up to the name on it is not. When CTI decided to offer plywood, the real question wasn't whether we could source panels, but whether we could hold plywood to the same standard we hold every other product. That standard is the whole reason customers choose CTI, and it's the reason this line exists in the form it does. To understand why CTI plywood is built the way it is, it helps to start with what usually goes wrong with pl

On an exterior door, the bottom few inches of the frame do the hardest job. That's where water collects, wicks up through the end grain, and eventually rots out the jamb from the bottom up until it can no longer hold a sill or a hinge. ProtecDoor™ was engineered specifically to defend that vulnerable zone. ProtecDoor™ has evolved. The rot-resistant base that made the product what it is has advanced to a full-PVC bottom finger joint, a change that makes an already durable fra

CTI is adding plywood to its lineup. If you know how CTI approaches everything else we make, you already know the thinking behind it. This isn't commodity panel stock sourced on price and shipped with its fingers crossed. CTI Birch Plywood is built for shops and dealers who can't afford surprises: every sheet is produced under CTI's quality systems so the material arrives exactly as ordered, machines clean, finishes well, and keeps projects on schedule. For anyone who has ope

Any manufacturer can call its own products high quality. What's harder, and far more meaningful, is having that quality verified by an independent third party with no stake in the outcome. That's exactly what just happened at CTI, and the result is worth celebrating. CTI's FFW mill in Cambodia recently completed an SGS audit conducted in conjunction with a customer, and this audit proved to be the most rigorous in CTI's history. The team earned an initial score of 4.5 out of

A moulding profile is judged in the last sixteenth of an inch. A baseboard that runs a hair thick won't sit flat against the wall. A crown that varies in profile depth across a bundle leaves shadow lines at every joint. A casing that arrives with inconsistent moisture content will move after it's installed, and the callback lands on someone else's schedule. None of these are dramatic failures. They're small, cumulative, expensive, and almost always the result of variation tha