Celbar Is Naturally Safe

Spray insulation environmental concerns are answered with Celbar which is a very high post consumer recycled content cellulose insulation. It is the least energy intensive product when compared to vitreous materials. When you use spray insulation in your home or business project, you can feel good about helping reduce the environmental problems now facing our man made landfills.

Spray Insulation Environmental Concerns Ease with the Celbar Insulation System

Produced from Recycled Products

Unlike other forms of insulation, Celbar has very high post consumer recycled content. When you use Celbar in your home, you can feel good about helping reduce the environmental problems now facing our man-made landfills. Increasing our environmental responsibility allows our generation and ones to follow the chance to enjoy Planet Earth and live a healthy life.

Low Embodied Energy

According to the Construction Specifier, March 1994, cellulose is the least energy intensive product when compared to vitreous [glassy] materials. To assess the efficiency of any product, the embodied energy must be first factored. This energy factor is the amount of energy required to produce, transport, and install any product.

Unlike cellulose, vitreous fiber insulation is produced by melting sand, slag or rock in a hot furnace that burns fossil fuels, releasing those spent gasses into our air as pollution. To maintain their extreme high temperatures, the furnace operates continually, never shutting down for the weekend.

Clean Manufacturing

Celbar Insulation is processed in a clean, efficient, electrically-driven mill that requires relatively little amounts of energy. At the end of the production day, on weekends, and holidays, the mill shuts-down totally. Information supplied to the Canadian Standards Association by a vitreous manufacturer indicated it required 59 times more energy than cellulose on a pound for pound basis.

Environmental Facts for major types of insulation materials

Fire Spread and Smoke Developed are two key metrics regarding how insulation will perform in a fire.

Fire Spread refers to the speed at which flames spread along the surface of the insulating material. Smoke Developed refers to the amount of smoke that is produced while the product burns. In most house fires, it’s not the flames that cause injury or death, but rather smoke inhalation. Smoke also creates confusion and can obscure fire exits.

In one study, the ratings show that cellulose insulation out performs the competition on these two key metrics. On smoke developed, less than 400 is a passing score. In order to pass, Icynene® needs an additional component to meet the requirements.