PAPERSTONE Sustainable Surfacing

Natural components from which it is made

PaperStone™ is made from sustainable sources. It is manufactured in three versions. Original PaperStone contains  100% post-consumer recycled card board  and PaperStone Certified is made from 100% recycled paper. PaperStone made from virgin fiber is also available. All PaperStone products are made from Paneltech's proprietary, petroleum-free resin that contains natural ingredients like cashew nut shell liquid. All PaperStone products are available in the same panel sizes, basic colors, and have identical mechanical properties.

Composition

Phenolic resins are used to make PaperStone. They have been around fornearly a century since Henry Baekland invented Bake-Lite, the familiar blackthermoplastic case of the original, black rotary telephones. Cashew nutshell liquid (CNSL)-based resins are the type of phenolic resins used tomake PaperStone. They have long been prized for their extremely highabrasion resistance. They are still preferred for high quality automotivebrake pads. What sets PaperStone apart is the company's highly-skilled andcreative technical staff, the company's own resin laboratory, resin plantand commitment to the cleanest and 'greenest' products and processes thatare technically and economically possible. PaperStone resins have also beenspecially designed to produce a hardwood-like, highly workable and notbrittle composite panel.

Paper fiber is the other major component of PaperStone. The source of paperfor the company's Certified product is Grays Harbor Paper Company, a small,independent, paper mill that is located adjacent to where PaperStone ismade. Both Grays Harbor Paper Company and Paneltech International, LLC (themakers of PaperStone) are chain-of-custody certified by Smartwood and theForest Stewardship Council.

PaperStone becomes a composite product when specially-produced sheets ofpaper are saturated with the company's proprietary resins and pressed underheat and pressure. This cross-links the resin polymer in all threedimensions producing a dense, homogeneous and essentially non-porouscomposite product that doesn't delaminate. PaperStone has been tested underthe most stringent testing protocols and has no detectable formaldehyde.