| With this straw products being so eco-friendly to | | | | home. |
| the environment, it's a different way to go about | | | | Affordability and reduction of sound transmission |
| drywall and gypsum. Disposing of straw has been | | | | are just a few key features of strawboard |
| an environmental issue, especially the remaining | | | | panels. With affordability being such a huge factor |
| by-product of wheat gain after it is harvested. | | | | these days, this is a great product to purchase. |
| The burning of this process causes serous air | | | | Plus, they're also fire, termite, mold, and |
| pollution. The good thing about eco-friendly | | | | impact-resistant. |
| strawboard panels is that they can replace | | | | Strawboard is close to wood in texture so it can |
| gypsum drywall which consumes much more | | | | be sawed, drilled, routed, nailed, screwed, and |
| energy to produce. With these highly compressed | | | | glued. In the U.S, there are two companies that |
| straw panels, the studs are not needed in some | | | | manufacture strawboard panels. They are Enviro |
| interior partition walls. Some applications are | | | | Board Corp. of Sacramento, CA. and Durra |
| interior and exterior walls, load and non-bearing | | | | Building Systems, based in Whitewright, Texas. |
| ceilings, roofing, doors, and flooring. Because | | | | Also a product called BIOFIBER™ wheat panels |
| wheat is grown allover the world every year for | | | | that are made by Environ BioComposite can be |
| food, it is a rapidly renewable resource! It also a | | | | used for interior applications within steel buildings |
| great eco-friendly product that can be used | | | | such as table surfaces, cabinetry, furniture, and |
| anywhere for your steel building as well as your | | | | decorative & architectural applications. |