At TimberHP, we talk often of the clear advantage wood fiber has over all other competitors as a carbon negative insulation that can substantially lower a building’s greenhouse gas emissions over its life span. While our own internal research confirms this fact, it’s always exciting to see third-party validation too!

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If you have a few minutes and want to learn more about all things wood fiber insulation, check out this recent episode of the *BS and Beer show. Scott Dionne, our chief marketing officer, joined five other panelists to discuss the applications and merits of wood fiber insulation, its successful history in the European market, why it will be such a good fit in North America and TimberHP’s plans for bringing our loose fill, batt and board products to market, beginning in early 2022.

GO Lab co-founder Matt O’Malia joined Maine-based architectural photographer Trent Bell for a recent episode ofhis new podcast AD&P—architecture, design and photography. In a more than hour long, wide ranging conversation, the two discussed GO Lab, TimberHP and what wood fiber insulation, made in America, will mean for the future of sustainable building in the U.S.

On May 1st, GO Lab president Josh Henry welcomed Maine Governor Janet Mills to the mill Madison. The governor came to announce how the state intends to use the $1.13 billion it’s receiving under President Biden’ American Rescue Plan Act.

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This winter, MassCEC, the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center, asked design firms to submit proposals for all-electric energy retrofits of the triple decker, wood, balloon-framed apartments that went up all over the state in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to house the steady influx of immigrant factory workers arriving from Europe. TimberHP by GO Lab partnered with OPAL, the architecture, research and design firm, on one of thirteen submissions chosen as finalists in the competition. We’re happy to report that our wood fiber, modular retrofit model was honored for having the lowest embodied carbon of any of the competitions’s finalists.

Congratulations team!

Demand for wood fiber insulation in Europe is projected to grow by 12.7% annually, resulting in nearly $1 billion in annual revenue by 2023, according to a market assessment report prepared by Freedonia Custom Research.  Several of the major manufacturers in Europe are building new production facilities to meet the growing demand in the EU, which is being driven by several factors.

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GO Lab’s ability to pivot and make changes to its financial strategy in the early stages of the pandemic left the company in even stronger shape than it was before the crisis, reports Mainebiz in a feature story for the publications April banking and finance issue.

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It can take an average of 8 years after install for typical insulating materials to offset their carbon footprint with operational energy savings! That’s not the case with wood fiber insulation which arrives at the jobsite carbon negative and sequesters carbon in the built environment.

This time lapse video highlights construction of College of the Atlantic’s Center for Human Ecology, which features continuous exterior wood fiber insulation boards made by a German manufacturer.

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GO Lab marked an important milestone in late February, when the Dutch container ship Alamosborg arrived at the Mack Point terminal in Searsport with a lightly-used manufacturing line from Germany. The Bangor Daily News wrote a nice feature story about the significance of GO Lab’s purchase of the equipment from the German firm Homanit Building Materials GmbH & Co. and its arrival in Maine.

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The boiler has landed! To create our insulation products, we start with wood chips, pressure, and steam. Sawmills will provide the chips; our ‘new’ boiler will provide the pressurized steam. Though this boiler is new to us, it had a very short previous life at a paper mill in Canada that recently closed. 

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