How do our acoustical ceiling panels contribute to Indoor Environmental Quality?
SMCCCD has standardized on USG Millennia ClimaPlus and Radar acoustical ceiling panels because of their environmental benefits in our learning environments as well as the company’s commitment to environmental manufacturing processes. USG Millennia ClimaPlus and Radar ceiling panels are mineral fiber and wood fiber ceiling tiles containing recycled material. The recycled materials are primarily slag wool and cellulose fiber. Slag wool is made from a recycled waste product of steel production. Cellulose fiber is made from recycled newsprint. Millennia ClimaPlus ceiling panels have 80% recycled content. The panels have corn and wheat starches as binders, in lieu of petroleum-based chemical binders typically used in such panels. The ceiling suspension systems have 25% recycled steel content, and they can be recycled completely at the end of their lifecycle. USG has used environmental control equipment since before the Clean Air Act was passed in 1969. Their plants consume clean fuel, such
