This startup creates a global technological platform for recycled tree

Each year, 36 million trees fall from the breakdown, diseases, natural disasters or cleansing for new development. The vast majority of these trees either burn, go to the dump or mulch zones, which spends energy and causes carbon emissions.

Now the new technology is used to search, transport and dispose of this tree and again makes it useful.

Campium is a startup that seeks to thwart wood processing space. Its researchers, based on the Baltimore, are working on new ways to track, treat and transfer old wood to the supply chain. This advocates the platform “where the Timber meets technology”.

“We make it really simple to get a tree that would otherwise be in vain, and we build technologies for the woodworking industry so that we can save material, create new local jobs and turn to climate change,” said Ben Christensen CEO.

Each piece of “Carbon Smart” timber has a barcode. Scan it, and the Cambium app determine what it is for the species when it was crushed and what its class is.

Cambium technology helps to find, recycle, and then deliver a tree throughout the United States and in the Canada. The company works with local care services Amazon. CbreGensler, room and board.

“We help truckers coordinate the loads so that they can actually move this material, and then we help saws scream this stuff, track this stuff when they actually use it in the sawmill, and then eventually sell this material,” Kristensen said.

Although there are local wood processors, no one else appeals to the supply chain on a national scale, Kristensen said, adding that he expects that he will eventually become global. This potential is attractive to investors.

“For us, as a venture capitalist who seeks to invest in businesses that can go for a month and become a billion dollars of business, it meets all the criteria,” said Adrian Fent, the founder of the Mac Venture Capital partner.

Cambium is also supported by Volo Earth Ventures, NEA and Resovation Fund Fund Fund Rest. So far, the startup has raised $ 28.5 million.

If you could save all the thrown wooden materials in the US, people could get about half of our total demand, Kristensen said.

Last year, Cambium doubled its sales, and Kristensen said he was on the software side. Its profit comes from direct sales of wood to end users and from software sales to the wooden industry to facilitate the move, tracking and sell recycled product.

“It is very important for investors in the Silicon Valley because we do not want to invest in a wooden company,” said fantas. “We don’t want to invest in a construction company. We want to invest in a software company.”

Christensen said that there are tariffs for the Trump administration on Canadian lumber. These tariffs are expected to affect the Business CCA, especially in the northeastern US region

“We move the materials on the sawmill located 10 or 20 miles from the border, and therefore, obviously, trade policy really affects how this material moves,” Kristensen said.

CNBC producer Lisa Ritzole has contributed to this work.