The Facts About Green  (That is, the truth about formaldehyde)
When the market talks air emissions from building products, it’s often talking about formaldehyde-based resins. Here are the facts:

Formaldehyde-based resins are adhesives used to bind together many construction materials. This naturally occurring chemical helps make materials stronger and longer lasting. Without it, many of the products you encounter every day — from your desk and kitchen cabinets to the joists in your ceiling — would never meet even basic performance standards

In low quantities, formaldehyde is absolutely safe. In fact, it exists at low levels in our bodies and is emitted from trees and from a wide variety of products we encounter daily, like vaccines and medicines, cosmetics, clothing and even X-ray film. Our bodies are programmed to process it at those levels

Today’s resin technologies enable us to use the strengthening attributes of formaldehyde while keeping emissions at safe background levels or virtually eliminating them altogether. We’re happy to tell you more about how

Third-party regulators help ensure safe air quality where resin-enhanced products are found. Arclin meets and typically exceeds every existing criteria for low emissions In Fact… (could be a sidebar) “Urban wood” (recycled, reused) is all the rage in the building industry. And it’s a great idea — repurposing wood from deconstructed or demolished structures. It’s typically ground down and remade into particleboard or other substrate materials. Voila. Except that when it’s ground down, it’s may also contain additional formaldehyde from original wood sources and old manufacturing and building processes. Wouldn’t meet emissions standards on a good day. Arclin’s E-Gen-designated E-Sorb and E-Natural adhesive resins — used to bind these substrate materials — have scavengers that are able to trap potential emissions before they escape. Green science.