Ecor® | The Shape of Green to Come ™
Ecor® is an innovative environmental core technology offering an extensive new generation of highly versatile, strong, lightweight, three-dimensional engineered molded fiber (3dEMF) panel products manufactured from an almost unlimited variety of readily-available, low-cost and underutilized raw material sources.
FPL Research Making Its Way to the Marketplace
By Rebecca Wallace, Public Affairs Specialist
The Forest Products Laboratory has been involved in research to develop three-dimensional molded fiber structures using waste materials since the 1980s. At that time, “green” characteristics did not bring a premium and commercialization efforts were unsuccessful; however, research continued on 3-D structural panels. In 2006, commercial partners again sought out FPL to see what developments had been made and found 3-D engineered fiberboard to be cost effective and appealing to a market that was turning toward greener materials. From 2006 to 2008, FPL worked with Noble Environmental Technologies Corporation to move the technology from the lab to commercial start-up, and Noble has since demonstrated the potential of this FPL-produced material by developing many useful applications. An article in
Surface & Panel
magazine highlighting the commercial products and potential of these materials can be found byclicking the link below:
http://www.surfaceandpanel. com/articles/tech-spec/shape-green-come
- Article Source: Forest Products Laboratory
Photo Description
Left: 3-D engineered fiberboard samples. - Right: FPL Employees HongMei Gu and John Hunt hold a 3-D engineered fiberboard.
