2012 Annual Report
Homasote Company, America’s oldest manufacturer of building products made from recycled cellulose fiber, recently released its Annual Report for 2012. Click here to download the Annual Report for 2012
Parsons The New School for Design and Homasote Present Installation at WantedDesign
Student projects always seem to blow our minds and the Parsons The New School for Design had a really cool seating installation made from recycled fiberboard. Read the full article
Recession Forces NJ Remodeling Firm to Pull More “Green” Out of Homasote 440 Recyclable Building Materials and Still Give Back to the Community
Innovative use of Homasote 440 Soundboards allowed Turner Construction of New Jersey to reduce the cost of protecting existing floors and walls in a laboratory renovation. It also allowed them to get LEED credits and still be able to donate the soundproofing wallboards to a low income housing project. Click here to read the full…
Homasote Announces an STC 55 wall Considered “Excellent” Sound Control
Homasote announces an STC 55 wall; considered “Excellent” Sound Control in a single wall, with it’s 440 SoundBarrier on only 1-side of the wall. A wall with an STC 55 will reduce the transmission of Sound through a wall by roughly 25% (a difference in STC of 10 is twice (or half) as loud. Requires…
440 SoundBarrier Installation Video
Homasote is pleased to announce the release of its first Installation Video regarding the installation of Homasote 440 SoundBarrier in floors. 440 SoundBarrier is the only fiberboard made for use in floors and is suitable for use under ceramic tile, hardwood floors – all installation methods including: nail-down, glue-down and floating floor applications, vinyl flooring…
Homasote 440 Sound Barrier key to material in “Dream House for Emergencies” by John Steele, www.KeystoneEdge.com
Raise your hand if you ever built a dollhouse as a kid. It started as a simple pile of plastic walls but, through the magic of toy manufacturing, it soon became a home, sprung forth from a tiny box. And as you, unfettered by lack of tools or general mechanical knowledge, inserted tab A into…
440 SoundBarrier Installation Highlights
We have released a new instruction sheet of important installation tips for our 440 SoundBarrier. Download 440 SoundBarrier Installation Highlights here.
Study finds benefits of “single stream” recycling can be deceptive and costly
Recycling’s real purpose is remanufacturing and end use. Most lay people, and perhaps most local officials, assume that all recycled items go to their best use. They are shocked to learn that the materials they dutifully put in a recycling bin may in fact wind up in a landfill. Unfortunately single stream recycling decreases the…
Homasote Voted Product Choice Award Winner by Industry Peers
Recognizing the top building product providers, Multi-Housing News readers voted Homasote as a recipient of an “2009 Product Choice Award in the category of Sound Control” for “exceptional value, materials quality, design innovation and customer care”. By Natasha Selhi, Associate Publisher, Multi-Housing News Jan/Feb 2009 Multi-Housing News is proud to present the 2009 winners of…
