<div dir="ltr">Has anyone seen any data on the trade-offs on this? On the face of it, pulling all the organic matter out of the soil to make building products will obviously require adding more fertilizers (and, perhaps, more pesticides) to get the next crop. This seems like the definition of not sustainable.<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 2:00 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greenbuilding-request@lists.bioenergylists.org" target="_blank">greenbuilding-request@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Send Greenbuilding mailing list submissions to<br>
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1. new type of chip board (Sacie Lambertson)<br>
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Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 22:01:05 -0500<br>
From: Sacie Lambertson <<a href="mailto:sacie.lambertson@gmail.com">sacie.lambertson@gmail.com</a>><br>
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Subject: [Greenbuilding] new type of chip board<br>
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>From a gardening newsletter: fyi<br>
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*NEW TYPE OF CHIPBOARD MADE FROM CORN RESIDUE. *Most people are familiar<br>
with chip board, a mixture of sawdust and resin to produce a plywood-type<br>
product that requires the harvesting of vast numbers of trees to provide<br>
sufficient sawdust. But few people realize that a replacement product<br>
called corn board, developed by researchers at the University of Illinois<br>
can be made from the residue of corn fields after harvesting the<br>
kernel-filled cobs. Called corn stover, this left-over biomass of stalks,<br>
dried tassels, leaves and roots is normally ploughed back into the soil.<br>
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Corn Board Manufacturing Inc, founded by Lane Segerstrom,<br>
with headquarters in McKinney, Texas, holds the rights to the patented<br>
technology for the manufacture of corn board, made by bonding corn stover<br>
with resin under heat and pressure. According to the USDA, there are<br>
80,000,000,000 pounds of stover available after harvesting a field of corn,<br>
capable of saving millions of trees currently used to manufacture chip<br>
board since corn board can replace pressed wood products in thousands of<br>
applications, including sports equipment like surf boards and skate boards<br>
to building materials like flooring and furniture. For more information,<br>
visit <a href="http://www.cornboard.com" target="_blank">www.cornboard.com</a>.<br>
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Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 10:51:19 -0700<br>
From: "Erin Rasmussen" <<a href="mailto:erin@trmiles.com">erin@trmiles.com</a>><br>
To: "'Green Building'" <<a href="mailto:greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org">greenbuilding@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>><br>
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It's nice to see corn based particleboard resurrected. I have a friend who's house was built in the 1970's that has large panels of this everywhere, and it has held up pretty well.<br>
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cheers,<br>
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From: Greenbuilding [mailto:<a href="mailto:greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org">greenbuilding-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org</a>] On Behalf Of Sacie Lambertson<br>
Sent: Monday, September 15, 2014 8:01 PM<br>
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Subject: SPAM: [Greenbuilding] new type of chip board<br>
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>From a gardening newsletter: fyi<br>
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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.<br>
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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 <a href="http://www.cornboard.com" target="_blank">www.cornboard.com</a>.<br>
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