Posted November 20, 2008 10:48 PM by Mark Piepkorn
Related Categories: Events, Greenbuild '08, Product Talk

Posted live from Greenbuild.

I mentioned Armstrong Ceiling Systems' booth earlier, and the fact that they don't use any wood that's not FSC, and that they don't have any added formaldehyde in any of their products. I didn't mention that all their ceiling tiles are Class A fire rated, because it started to feel I was cheerleading.

There's one other thing that I didn't mention.

In February, they're slated to roll out a ceiling tile made with 46% jute. The stuff goes from seed to harvest in 90 days; talk about rapidly renewable. Like all their tiles, no added formaldehyde. There was a sample there... it looked and acted just like fiberglass. These tiles will have the standard scrim facing that most of their lines use.

No word on what the line will be called.

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