The framing built for New Zealand’s toughest conditions

J-Frame’s performance starts long before it reaches a building site. 

Manufactured with timber from Juken’s own forests, the engineered timber has greater dimensional stability than conventional framing, helping deliver the consistency, stability and reliability that builders expect.

It’s a difference Lance has seen plenty throughout his career. 

“The first thing builders notice is how straight it is,” he says. “With J-Frame, you don’t have the twists, bows and warps you typically spend time correcting.”

Rather than spending valuable labour hours straightening wall frames, builders can focus on progressing the build. Those efficiencies continue throughout the project, supporting plasterboard installation, accurate cabinetry fit-outs and tighter finished tolerances. 

For architects, it means the finished project reflects their design intent, with the precision behind the walls the layer that becomes the standard for everything that follows. 

This performance doesn’t happen by chance. 

“We’ve got our own forests that then turn into products for New Zealanders in New Zealand,” says Lance. “Owning our own forest means we have greater control over supply and long-term planning.”

With approximately 40,000 hectares of plantation forest across the country, Juken has oversight of the entire journey, from growing the trees through to manufacturing the finished J-Frame product. 

“It’s not just about manufacturing quality timber, it’s about starting with quality timber in the forest,” says Lance.

When you’re building in places where temperatures can swing from freezing mornings to 30-degree afternoons, you need materials you can trust. J-Frame is engineered to stay straight and strong.

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