Andrew from Vermont Natural Coatings tells Ricky about the PolyWhey finish, a natural wood finish. Whey protein is the binder used for the finish. PolyWhey can be applied to furniture, flooring, and exterior surfaces. It is easy to apply. One of the advantages it has is it low VOC content. It is a professional and durable finish. Vermont Natural Coating received the top ten green product award in Boston 2008's Greenbuild.
Alumillenium, a company that makes tiles out of 100% recycled metal content, exhibited their products at this year's Greenbuild conference. The company manufactures aluminum and brass tiles in innovative designs. Ricky interviews Pedro from Alumillenium about the company's tile fabrication and sustainability. How are these tiles manufactured? In the fabrication of Alumillenium tiles, brass is colored by fire patina and aluminum is sand blasted, vibrated, fully bathed, and brushed. The entire ...
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Envirogreen Building Technologies (EB-Tech), a company based in Mexico, featured their Thermablock product at this year's Greenbuild conference. Thermablock is a constructive system of isolated walls based on insulating materials (a styrofoam interior core), concrete, exterior wall applications, auto-formwork, steel reinforcement and fiberglass, at a competitive cost and higher in constructive properties, such as structural, thermal and acoustic, and it is faster to build and lightweight ...
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Hycrete products make concrete waterproof, by reducing absorption of water and dissolved salts into the concrete and by forming a protective layer over reinforcing steel. The Buildaroo News Team interviewed David Rosenberg from Hycrete about the technology behind the waterproof concrete as well as the cost savings gained through its use. Watch more videos about sustainable companies and products at buildaroo.com Some information about Hycrete: - Regular concrete absorbs water and anything ...
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Native Trails is a leading manufacturer of kitchen and bath products specializing in handcrafted copper basins, tubs, vanities, mirrors and accessories. These products are truly exquisite and quite surprisingly they're sustainable! Ricky from buildaroo.com interviews Naomi, the owner of Native Trails, who tells us about the company's kitchen and bathroom sinks that carry a unique hand hammered design. For more videos about sustainable companies and products go to buildaroo.com. All of Native ...
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We were excited to see Caroma at this year's Greenbuild conference. Caroma is known for having toilets of excellent quality, but they unfortunately are not as well known in the US as some other brands. Caroma manufactures exclusively dual flush toilets, and they have been manufacturing these for the last 30 years. That means they are pretty expert on how to get a dual flush to operate at its optimum. In fact these toilets have such a great flushing technology that the company says they are ...
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CertainTeed, manufacturers of sustainable energy efficient products, had a bunch of great products on display at their booth at this year's Greenbuild conference. Two really awesome products we took notice of were a hybrid insulation product, composed of part spray foam insulation and part blown virgin fiberglass, and a beautiful faux slate roofing product (the Symphony series) made of polymers and significantly lighter than real slate. The Buildaroo News Team interviewed Lucas from ...
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Tom from Tandus tells us that their company takes waste streams and turns them into flooring coverings. Vinyl carpet tile was where the company started, and since then, the company has found numerous other waste streams. In addition to making carpet tiles from grinding vinyl backed carpets, called ER3, Tandus also grinds up safety glass to derive Ethos which is used as a backing for their carpet tile. Other materials Tandus is using to manufacture their carpet tiles include pool lining ...
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Midnight Solar's Classic MPPT charge controller is going to be "the most sophisticated MPPT charge controller in the world," according to Robin Gudgel of Midnight Solar. The company says that the Classic MPPT charge controller will substantially increase the flexibility, features and range currently found on MPPT controllers. The Buildaroo News Team interviewed Robin Gudgel at this year's Solar Power International. Watch this video and find out what he had to say. Some information about the ...
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John from Kirei shares with us about his company's new products. Kirei's fun board shows art, stenciling, cut outs, and laser etching designs on various products. Kirei has a new hemp board in the works, and they have been introducing their new chocolate bamboo and flooring. Torzo is a new product where the Kirei board and other agricultural fiber products are fused with polymers; the result is a more durable and hard product. Kirei's flooring is another new product that they are introducing ...
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