A new video shares how U.S. soy protein in 150 million Columbia Forest Products PureBond plywood panels deliver a cost-competitive, environmentally friendly adhesive that replaced the toxic urea–formaldehyde (UF) resin. To celebrate the milestone, Susan Watkins and Robert Petter, who are United Soybean Board directors and soybean growers from Virginia and Arkansas, toured the factory to share how the EPA-honored innovation has benefitted millions of customers, woodworking employees and U.S. farmers.

EPA awarded the researchers who developed this soy-based panel assembly approach with the 2007 Presidential Green Chemistry Award. According to the EPA, the technology represented the “first cost-competitive, environmentally friendly adhesive that replaced the toxic urea–formaldehyde (UF) resin.