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  1. 8th November 2013, 04:12 PM #1
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    Default Potatoe based MDF

    I saw this on another forum and thought it worth a repost here.
    New MDF Panel Uses Potato Starch Resin

    Assuming other starches can also be used, soon you'll be able to order MDF not just by colour but by flavour.
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    Does that mean it can be fry as well
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    Does that mean you have to keep that MDF in the dark or it will turn green?
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    Reading the article, they are working on using potato starch in place of UF resin as the binder in the board. Fifteen years ago, the septics were making environmental MDF using straw as the fibre instead of wood fibre. Looked like a good idea, but it made one heck of a dust hazard while being worked, sort of made working timber based MDF look clean.

    Combine the two proccesses and you set up production from ajoining paddocks with an annual crop cycle, no need to wait 30 years to get harvestable 'waste' timber.
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