{"id":2597,"date":"2012-04-09T18:28:25","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T18:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/?p=2597"},"modified":"2013-07-31T16:32:18","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T16:32:18","slug":"q-is-an-greenix-panel-a-green-building-product-is-it-environmentally-safe-to-make-and-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/q-is-an-greenix-panel-a-green-building-product-is-it-environmentally-safe-to-make-and-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Q.) Is a Greenix Panel a &#8220;green building product?&#8221; Is it environmentally safe to make and use?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A.) Yes. SIP homes require considerably less framing lumber than a conventionally framed home. This saves trees. OSB is made from the 37% of a tree that is normally waste from making solid lumber. Solid lumber, as used in typical wood-frame homes, requires 63% of the wood from harvested trees. SIP homes, pre-cut in the factory, result in far less \u201cjob-site waste.\u201d The small amount of wood scraps resulting from the SIP manufacturing process at the manufacturing facility is used for other products or recycled, rather than going into landfills.<\/p>\n<p>We use a low-pressure foaming system designed to maximize the advantages of the foam properties. The cured foam is inert and non-hazardous. The foam process used by SIP Supply uses no \u201cozone depleting substances\u201d, such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), hydrobromofluorocarbons (HBFCs), halon, methyl bromide, carbon tetrachloride, or methyl chloroform. Only EPA-approved materials are used in the manufacture of Greenix Panels. Greenix Panels polyurethane foam contains no formaldehyde. The foam contains agricultural-based oils derived from soy beans, corn, sugar beets, and\/or sugar cane. The foaming equipment is cleaned with hot water and a detergent, and the small amount of residue is safely disposable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A.) Yes. SIP homes require considerably less framing lumber than a conventionally framed home. This saves trees. OSB is made from the 37% of a tree that is normally waste from making solid lumber. Solid lumber, as used in typical wood-frame homes, requires 63% of the wood from harvested trees. SIP homes, pre-cut in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25],"tags":[158,160,163,164,161],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sipsupply.com\/sip-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}