Columbia Renews PureBond® Declare® Transparency Declaration Label; Expands Transparency Program with Collins Pine FreeForm® Core Construction in West

We Declare! Again…and Again.

Transparency is the new ante for building products manufacturing. Family life revolves around the materials used to create these unique spaces we call home.

As an “ingredient” in home interiors including the kitchen cabinets, bedroom shelving and home office built-ins, Columbia decorative hardwood plywood panels are a trusted, formaldehyde-free solution with over 150 million sheets of plywood made with PureBond® Soy and PVA-based assembly technology.

The Declare product transparency program  helps architects, designers, fabricators and consumers understand intentionally added ingredients to 100 ppm by weight in selected, domestic panel offerings.

Declare labels are an analogue to a food ingredient/nutrition labeling as part of a transparency platform that continues to change the materials marketplace. With Declare®, architects and designers can understand chemistries are intentionally added which speeds the curation, adoption and specification of Columbia PureBond production by name into case goods design requirements. And what works for the professionals works for the homeowner as well…real insight into product chemistry together with a focus on what happens to the product at the end of its useful life.

According to the International Living Futures Institute, a Declare label answers three questions:

1. “Where does a product come from?”
2. “What is it made of?”
3. “Where does it go at the end of its life?”

Declare labels contain information on Red List and watch list chemistries, TVOC performance (on selected product lines) as well as the availability of responsible sourcing options including certified wood with a chain of custody for all product lines we provide.

Labels are renewed annually by Columbia staff through the Toxnot™ platform with the help of knowledgeable consultants who help translate and classify ingredients used in Columbia’s production featuring the Declare® label.

We find through engagement with designers and fabricators, that the Declare label also is a real time saver for submittals. Supply chain partners, fabricators, designers and consumers have all found a Declare label opens doors to a fresh, transparent embrace that many argue is long overdue.

This year, Columbia partnered with Collins to Declare Collins Pine FreeForm®, formaldehyde-free particleboard core hardwood plywood assemblies where the decorative wood face and back are laminated with either Soy or Poly Vinyl Acetate (PVA) assembly technologies. It is an exciting, new addition to Columbia’s cost effective offering for cabinetry fabricators West of the Rockies.

For more information on Columbia’s Declare label visit Declare – International Living Future Institute (living-future.org). 

For more information on the Declare label itself and what is involved to create one, visit About Declare | Living-Future.org.

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