Formaldehyde Article

As there often is, there’s a good article in the latest edition of Hardwood Floors magazine, which came across my desk this week. This one is entitled “Formaldehyde Fears”. Sounds like pretty exciting, right?

Well, it’s a growing concern about composite wood floors that are glued together using glue that contains formaldehyde. Problem with formaldehyde is that it off-gasses over time and this exposure to formaldehyde gas has been shown to be cancerous over time. As a result, there have been stricter regulations about the use of formaldehyde glue in the manufacturing of composite floors.

Inherently, since they are made of strips of bamboo that are glued together, bamboo is also a composite floor. Indeed, early bamboo floors were made using urea formaldehyde adhesives, and this particular brand of formaldehyde glue emits the highest level of formaldehyde.

That was then. Now bamboo manufacturers use a type of glue that is referred to as “No Added Urea Formaldehyde”, or NAUF. This is not addressed in the article, but it is important to note that our Zenterra flooring has none of the off-gassing that has found to be harmful.

This is going to be a question that people will need to have increasingly addressed, as regulation against the use of formaldehyde in flooring increases. Just wanted to let you know that we’re ready for it, and encourage regulation that increases the safety of both plant workers and owners of bamboo flooring.

If you’d like to read the article, you can visit it here: http://hardwoodfloorsmag.com/articles/article.aspx?articleid=1551&zoneid=2. diovan viagra