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UMaine's New Patent Leverages the State's Forest Products Industry

from Mainebiz, July 28, 2020

UMaine's New Patent Leverages the State's Forest Products Industry Mainebiz, July 28, 2020 The University of Maine has received a patent for a process that creates construction materials using an environmentally friendly binding agent. The process developed by UMaine researchers eliminates the use of formaldehyde as a binding agent for construction materials such as particleboard, and replaces it with a slurry of cellulose nanofibrils, according to a news release. The use of the slurry increases durability and eliminates formaldehyde off-gassing. READ MORE

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