Is Vicwood Engineered Veneer CARB certified?
CARB certification, on which you can find more information at http://www.carbrule.org, applies for the moment to the state of California, USA so other countries or states are not currently affected by this ruling. Moreover, it concerns the regulation of formaldehyde emission from composite wood panels, i.e. particleboard, MDF and hardwood plywood. Technically, therefore, Vicwood Engineered Veneer is not affected by the rule. However, as it is made of various sheets of veneer glued together into a block, different levels of formaldehyde emission are possible. Generally speaking, Vicwood uses an E-1 level formaldehyde-emission glue and this has been an accepted standard in Europe for the past several years. The level is tested in our mill via a dessicator and our levels consistently match those imposed by these European standards, i.e. less than or equal to 1.5mg/L. However, some of our customers – in Europe and Japan, for instance – order our engineered veneer with E-0 standard, which p
