An Environmentally Friendly Update to Acoustical Insulation

When it comes to acoustic-friendly insulation, sound quality tends to overpower eco-friendliness. In the last year or so though, companies have been coming out with alternatives to formaldehyde and phenol packed insulation. The latest is from Knauf Insulation, which makes Ecose insulation from naturally occurring and/or recycled raw materials.

According to Electronic House, "Knauf’s new ECOSE Technology binder does not contain petroleum-based chemicals, formaldehyde, phenols and those other baddies. It can also be molded into multi-density boards to achieve various acoustical properties. Best of all, Kinetics Noise Control [the company that uses the insulation] says is doesn’t cost any more than its previous, not-so-green products."

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Comments (3)

I love this product. I'm sure many other people do, too. Unfortunately the web designer for the site [Knauf Insulation] does not want anybody to use thier product.

There is no information anywhere on the site, either on the main site or region specific, pretaining to purchasing insulation, or even *WHERE* it can be purchased.

Usually, when you are in the business of selling of product, you make it as easy as possible for, you know, people to BUY your product.

An interesting business stratege they have.

posted by marm0lade on October 5th 2009 at 12:31pm
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Hey Marm0lade,
According to the Electronic Home story Kinetics Noise uses the material. http://www.kineticsnoise.com/
Hope that helps.

posted by soniaz on October 6th 2009 at 10:02am
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Thank you for the link. It did help a little. You can locate a dealer to get pricing from the kinetics site. I live in upstate NY and the only dealer they have that services this area is in Ohio :(

Oh well. Hopefully I can find an alternative somewhere around me. It was worth a try!

posted by marm0lade on October 6th 2009 at 2:46pm
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