Strong by Form will show its ultralight engineered wood at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025

Strong by Form, a Chilean startup, is showcasing its ultralight engineered wood product at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 in San Francisco. The company has developed a novel structural floor panel that can replace concrete and steel in buildings, enabling architects to design lighter, less carbon-intensive structures. Unlike traditional cross-laminated timber (CLT), Strong by Form’s floors feature an internal structure filled with cavities made from wood shavings pressed into a wavy, optimized board. This design allows their floors to span up to 10 meters—double the typical span of CLT floors—while being lighter than steel, concrete, or conventional engineered wood. The startup’s innovative wood panel uses advanced software and manufacturing techniques to align wood flakes within a glue-like binder, creating a next-generation oriented strand board (OSB). Although the engineered wood product is initially more expensive, its lighter weight reduces the need for steel and concrete in the building frame, balancing overall costs to achieve price parity with concrete. Strong