CraftMaster is introducing its Green Doors line, which are made with sustainable materials, recycled content, and low VOC primers and adhesives, thus producing low formaldehyde emissions.
In addition to standard hollow core construction, CMI offers CraftMaster Green Doors with a solid GreenLite fiberboard door core. The rigid, lightweight core provides the heft, weight and sound deadening properties of a solid wood door, plus it is made using wood obtained from forestlands that are certified by Sustainable Forestry Initiative.
CraftMaster Green Doors contain a minimum of 65 percent by weight, pre-consumer recycled content. Hollow core CraftMaster Green Doors contain a minimum of 50 percent by weight, pre-consumer recycled content.
“Because the building industry remains at the forefront of the green movement, there is strong demand for interior doors that maximize the Earth’s natural resources without sacrificing quality and performance,” said Bob Merrill, CMI’s president and CEO. “By specifying CraftMaster Green Doors, builders and remodelers gain the environmental benefits consumers desire, while maintaining the beauty and functionality of molded door designs that resist shrinking, swelling, cracking and joint separation.”
CraftMaster molded door designs, which are used to make CraftMaster Green Doors, have received Scientific Certification Systems’ certification for key green building elements. They also are certified to contain a minimum of 63 percent by weight, pre-consumer recycled content and have no added urea formaldehyde.
CMI uses sawmill chips generated as residual waste from sawmill operations and field chips to make CraftMaster doors and molded door designs. Field chips are the residuals from field chipping operations of tree tops and leftover wood. Left unused, this wood would simply rot or be sent to landfills.
Instead, it is broken down into fibers, and then exposed to intense heat and pressure and converted into engineered durable, beautiful wood products.
For additional information, visit www.cmicompany.com.