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CalPlant Launches Eureka™, The World’s First Rice Straw-Based MDF
CalPlant Launches Eureka™, The World’s First Rice Straw-Based MDF WILLOWS, Calif. (Nov. 12, 2020) – CalPlant, a Northern California-based company focused on manufacturing sustainably-sourced building products, announces the official launch of the world’s first no-added-formaldehyde, rice straw-based medium density fiberboard, Eureka™ MDF. Eureka is manufactured using post-harvest rice straw, an agricultural waste product, and is engineered…
Straw-Building Movement Exits Huffing, Puffing Stage
Living Building Chronicle
It’s been a long, hard slog. But a California startup is on the cusp of manufacturing a product that could begin a reversal in the role buildings play in climate change.
CalPlant Launches World’s First Rice Straw-Based MDF
The Merchant
CalPlant, a Northern Californa-based company focused on manufacturing sustainably-sourced building products, has begun production of the world’s first no-added-formaldehyde…
CalPlant I Nears The Finish (Or Starting) Line
PanelWorld
One of the many intriguing tales to emerge from the Panel & Engineered Lumber International Conference & Expo held March 12-13 at the Omni Hotel in Atlanta was the plight…
Green Builder Hot 50 Products
Green Builder Magazine
Read about us on Page 32: CalPlant’s MDF performs similar, and in some cases better than, traditional wood fiber-based product in terms of durability and moisture resistance. It’s ideal for…
CalPlant MDF Operation Expects to Begin Production in 2020
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CalPlant I LLC (CalPlant), the $315 million rice straw-based MDF plant under construction in Willows, Calif., will begin production in the first quarter of 2020, according to CalPlant CEO Jerry…
CalPlant MDF Operation Expects to Begin Production In 2020
CalPlant, creator of revolutionary CalBoard medium density fiberboard, was founded with the sole purpose of creating and manufacturing agrifiber-focused building products for the 21st century.
Strategically located in the heart of the rice farming community in Willows, California, CalPlant promotes sustainable practices by producing CalBoard from renewable post-harvest rice straw.
BuildingGreen Announces Top 10 Products for 2020
BuildingGreen | Brent Ehrlich
These innovative products reduce carbon emissions’ impacts and include energy-saving windows and insulation, plus low-carbon pavers, gypsum, and MDF.
BuildingGreen Reveals Top 10 Products for 2020
Architectural Record
CalPlant uses a local agricultural fiber (rice straw), whose disposal typically wastes water and generates greenhouse gases, to create a formaldehyde-free MDF with superior performance over similar wood-based products.
New rice straw-based MDF plant set to start production in California
FDMC / WoodworkingNetwork | Karl D. Forth
A new rice straw-based MDF plant is now under construction north of Sacramento and is scheduled to begin production this fall. Construction of CalPlant I, the $315 million manufacturing plant…
Construction of CalPlant nears completion
Glenn County Transcript | Ruby Larson
Construction on a facility 20 years in the making is set to be complete in the fall. CalPlant 1 will be the world’s first commercial-scale producer of no-added-formaldehyde, rice straw-based…
CalPlant Launches Green MDF Made from Local Agro-Waste
Architect Magazine | Wanda Lau
As the first commercial-scale producer of rice straw–based, formaldehyde-free composite panels, the company will source raw material from within a 25-mile radius.