[Greenbuilding] new type of chip board

[Sacie Lambertson]

>From a gardening newsletter: fyi

*NEW TYPE OF CHIPBOARD MADE FROM CORN RESIDUE. *Most people are familiar
with chip board, a mixture of sawdust and resin to produce a plywood-type
product that requires the harvesting of vast numbers of trees to provide
sufficient sawdust. But few people realize that a replacement product
called corn board, developed by researchers at the University of Illinois
can be made from the residue of corn fields after harvesting the
kernel-filled cobs. Called corn stover, this left-over biomass of stalks,
dried tassels, leaves and roots is normally ploughed back into the soil.

                Corn Board Manufacturing Inc, founded by Lane Segerstrom,
with headquarters in McKinney, Texas, holds the rights to the patented
technology for the manufacture of corn board, made by bonding corn stover
with resin under heat and pressure. According to the USDA, there are
80,000,000,000 pounds of stover available after harvesting a field of corn,
capable of saving millions of trees currently used to manufacture chip
board since corn board can replace pressed wood products in thousands of
applications, including sports equipment like surf boards and skate boards
to building materials like flooring and furniture. For more information,
visit www.cornboard.com.
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