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As mentioned below by faithful commenter ‘the milliner’ people are often looking for alternatives to the way it used to be.  That being not giving a shit about the products we ingest or bring into our homes.  Options are becoming more readily available for every recipe, for every project.  Take plywood, please.

Columbia, North America’s largest manufacturer of hardwood plywood and hardwood veneer has created a formaldehyde-free product branded, Purebond.

Columbia has converted all of its hardwood plywood and particleboard facilities to a proprietary formaldehyde-free manufacturing system called PureBond^®. Cost-competitive with the similar urea formaldehyde (UF)-made hardwood plywood, Columbia’s PureBond formula is derived naturally, then enhanced with a proprietary resin, giving it particularly strong bonding and water-resistance qualities. And better yet it enables Columbia to completely eliminate formaldehyde from its standard veneer-core decorative panel production.

So if you’re having some built-ins constructed, or you need a new coffee table, or perhaps the bookshelves are in need of a makeover.  You now have a local source for Purebond.  Unfortunately that source is the Home Depot… groan.  I tried to order some panels last year direct from the local distributer, he asked how many pallettes I needed, click.

If it’s proving hard to find in the store, look for the labeling on the side of each panel.  Since you surely won’t get any help from the staff…Highest price being the 3/4″ 4×8 sheet with Birch veneer at 64$.

PS:  As for sustainable and healthy MDF, you’ll have to look for SierraPine products branded as;  (I haven’t tried to source it in Montreal…any help out there?)

Arreis SDF  No-Added Formaldehyde Industrial MDF

Medite II SDF  No-Added Formaldehyde MDF with Superior Properties

Medex SDF    No-Added Formaldehyde MDF for High Moisture Areas

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