Due to modern advances in technology, the products used in the building material supply are evolving to provide more than just one benefit to the contractor and homeowner. Plywood, for example, can ...

In a Sparks Warehouse employees of Havelock Wool open 1,000-pound bales of wool that spills onto the floor like fluffy clouds. “If you come in at the right time, you might find someone diving off the ...

New York, Aug. 26, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Reportlinker.com announces the release of the report "Glass Wool or Fiberglass Insulation – A Global Market Overview ...

Across climate zones, rising codes are increasing awareness of the role continuous insulation (ci) plays in helping buildings meet and exceed energy efficiency thresholds. But while thermal efficiency ...

On a recent Wednesday afternoon, inside a 67,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Reno, Nevada, a large machine moved a fluffy, off-white material through a series of drum rollers. The substance ...

Brownsville farmers Joel and Kay Pynch teamed up with Margaret Magruder of Clatskanie to use extra wool as home insulation. Brownsville farmers Joel and Kay Pynch teamed up with Margaret Magruder of ...

Nova Scotia has thousands of superfluous kilograms of wool, so researchers at Dalhousie University decided to stuff it in walls to see if it would work as home insulation. It turns out it can do the ...

Rainier-based Oregon Shepherd is selling blown-in natural wool insulation to the green building industry. Entrepreneurs Margaret Magruder and Joel Pynch spent nearly a decade researching alternative ...

When buildings are being insulated or torn down, a lot of waste "mineral wool"-type insulation ends up in the landfill. Thanks to new research, however, that material may soon instead find use in an ...