The California Air Resource Board regs routinely send shivers up the spines of the manufacturing world, so it’s encouraging to see a company proactively beating deadlines the way Timber Products announced this week.
The company has gotten CARB certification for several of its mills in advance of the January 1, 2010 deadline for compliance.
(If you’re on Twitter, and you want to keep up with TP’s latest product and manufacturing news tweets, you can find the company at @TimberProducts.)
Timber Products’ Medford, OR mill is now CARB 2 compliant.
Read the release after the jump.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 7, 2009
TIMBER PRODUCTS COMPANY MILLS EARN
CARB PHASE 2 CERTIFICATION
Company’s products ahead of schedule to meet last wave of formaldehyde standards
SPRINGFIELD, Ore. – Well in advance of the final compliance level of the California Air Resources Board (CARB) formaldehyde requirements, Timber Products Company announced that its hardwood plywood and particleboard mills in Medford, Ore., and Grants Pass, Ore., have been certified to CARB Phase 2 levels.
The Medford facility is 100 percent certified and is producing veneer core and MDF hardwood plywood, as well as raw particleboard, which comply with the Phase 2 requirements. Grants Pass’ veneer core panels meet the new standards and the facility is expected to be 100 percent certified in the next two months.
“Our goal is to ensure that customers can order Phase 2 material now so they won’t have to worry about complying with this last phase of the rule later this year,” said Timber Products Vice President Roger Rutan. “This will make the Phase 2 sell-through provisions a non-issue as our customers will have more than adequate time to work through Phase 1 material.”
CARB Phase 2 requirements for veneer core hardwood plywood take hold Jan. 1, 2010, with lower formaldehyde emission levels. Raw particleboard and MDF have an additional year, until Jan. 1, 2011, to comply with Phase 2 emission levels. Hardwood plywood with a composite core has a deadline of July 1, 2012.
Rutan added that the company’s Corinth, Miss., mill will also begin manufacturing CARB Phase 2-certified hardwood plywood by the end of May 2009.
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