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.

About Timber Products Company
Founded in 1918, Timber Products Company offers a wide range of diversified wood products and specializes in hardwood plywood. The company is one of the largest material suppliers to the U.S. kitchen cabinet industry. Timber Products owns nine state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities across the United States, a major international division, and 118,000 acres of forestland in Northern California managed under the strict standards of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI®) program. Timber Products was the world’s first hardwood plywood manufacturer authorized to carry the SFI label and began offering products certified by the Forest Stewardship Council in 2007. The company also operates TP Trucking, a nationwide transportation division.

 
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