Lackawanna Plant Making Less-Green MDF

A manufacturing facility built with great green hopes is now spending most of its time making a more conventional product. Great Lakes MDF, LLC has purchased the Lackawanna, New York medium-density fiberboard (MDF) plant formerly owned by The CanFibre Group, Ltd. The plant initially relied on phenol-formaldehyde binders in place of conventional urea formaldehyde and 100% post-consumer wood waste in place of sawmill waste or virgin material, but Great Lakes produces MDF with urea formaldehyde and most often uses hardwood chips as a raw material. The plant still uses post-consumer urban wood about 25% of the time. Great Lakes may be visited online at

www.greatlakesmdf.com.