Homasote Company Introduces
PINnacle^™ 440 and
PINnacle^™ N.C.F.R.®
Display Panels/Tackboards

PINnacle Tackable Museum-Grade Panel
Eliminates the Need for Additional Finishing

LAS VEGAS (International Builders' Show) — Homasote Company, the nation's oldest manufacturer of building products made from recycled materials, has introduced tackable PINnacle^™ 440 and PINnacle^™ N.C.F.R. Class A Fire-Rated pre-finished interior museum-grade panels, for interior and protected exterior use. These tackboard panels, made from classic Homasote^®, are the latest generation of Homasote panels that have been the benchmark for pin-retention (tackability) characteristics for nearly a century. A uniform material without knotholes, voids or splinters, and available in 4' X 8' sheets and custom sizes, PINnacle is ready for immediate use for all applications and does not require additional finishing or edge treatment. For custom designs, PINnacle is ready to receive fabrics, wall coverings, paint or dye.

The panels are designed for schools, businesses, hospitals, all public access areas where superior aesthetic qualities are required in a single board and in-home use. Its velvet finish is popular with museums, the display industry and architectural designers.

“PINnacle has an advantage over other tackboard products in that it is lightweight and durable and clean and flexible, making it easy to cut and work with,” said Manker Mills, director of sales and marketing for Homasote Company. “And its finely sanded, soft-textured surface is aesthetically appealing, eliminating the need and cost associated with coverings,” Mills said.

PINnacle, which is sound deadening, insulating and environmentally friendly, is made from 100 percent recycled post-consumer waste paper and does not contain toxic additives such as formaldehyde or asbestos. PINnacle has proven performance, is moisture resistant and also integrally protected against termites, rot and fungi.

PINnacle N.C.F.R. Class A Fire-Rated panels offer fire-resistance through a unique manufacturing process that mixes fire-retardant chemicals evenly throughout the board. PINnacle N.C.F.R. panels meet ASTM E-84 Class A requirements and should be used when aesthetics and fire retardant qualities are required.

PINnacle and most other Homasote products may contribute to aggregate Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED™) credits in several categories in the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) Green Building Rating System^™ including Energy and Atmosphere, Materials and Resources, Indoor Environmental Quality, Innovative and Professional Credits.  The LEED program provides national standards for designers and building owners to improve environmental, health and economic performance of buildings.

PINnacle is available from Homasote retailers and lumber yards, in 3/8" thick panels. A 1/2" panel is available by special order.

For more information about Homasote Company, PINnacle 440 and PINnacle N.C.F.R., or to locate the nearest Homasote dealer, call Homasote Company toll-free (800) 257-9491, Ext. 1500 or (609) 883-3300, Ext. 1500 or consult the "where to buy it" section of the Homasote Web site (www.homasote.com).

PINnacle Tackboard Delivers Superior Aesthetic Qualities

Architects, specifiers and designers around the world have relied on Homasote® panels and their fabric-wrapped or cork-laminated sister products as tackboards of choice for decades.

Coupling Homasote’s unique environmental pedigree, including up to 98 percent post-consumer content, with the product’s famed tack-retention and healing capabilities have helped to make it a standout tackboard.

Today, 93 years after Homasote board first was produced, the New Jersey-based company has introduced a new elegant panel called PINnacle™ that marries pure tackability with a rich new, natural and easily touched-up sanded surface.

For interior finish and protected exterior applications, new museum-grade PINnacle is available in standard 440 or Class A-rated PINnacle™ N.C.F.R.®.

As America’s oldest manufacturer of building products made from recycled materials, Homasote Company has been a committed, responsible recycler and environmental manufacturer since the first boards rolled off the production line in 1909 to become the roofs of railroad cars, and later Model T Ford automobiles.

Years before Earth Day was first celebrated, and decades before recycling was mandated, Homasote Company was diverting hundreds of tons of newsprint from the waste stream each production day to turn it into molded Homasote board.

As voluntary and mandated green building initiatives now sweep the country, spearheaded by organizations like the U.S. Green Building Council and its LEED™ program, the entire line of Homasote-based products — from sound control for floors and walls to nailbase roofing insulation — is becoming even more important to architects, specifiers, designers and engineers.

Over the years designers and architects have sanded Homasote board manually in order to create interesting effects and present a more uniform surface which does not mimic the mesh used as the board is molded under 2,000 pounds per square inch pressure.

Inside floor-ceiling and wall systems, natural Homasote board’s mesh/canvas pattern is unimportant. Even in exterior use, when painted as board and batten, the natural surface look also was acceptable.

But when tackboards need to be dressed up, basic Homasote was just not “pretty” enough. Until today.

Sanded on both sides in one pass through a massive, six-head finishing machine recently installed at the company’s 750,000-square-foot facility, PINnacle presents a fine-sanded front (and a medium-sanded back)which allows it to be seen in the best of company and places, including museums, retail stores, trade shows and offices — anywhere that tackability and elegance are required.

When Ross Barney + Jankowski Architects in Chicago heard about PINnacle they became the first in the country to use them, installing the tackboards in all their conference areas.

Square-edged PINnacle is ready for immediate use for all applications and does not require additional finishing or edge treatment. For custom designs, PINnacle is ready to receive fabrics, wall coverings, paint or dye.

The panels have already been specified or installed in schools, businesses, hospitals and all public access areas where superior aesthetic qualities are required in a single board. Its velvet finish already is popular with the display industry and architectural designers.

“Homasote has an advantage over other tackboard products because it is lightweight, durable, clean and flexible, making it easy to cut and work with. And PINnacle™ with its finely sanded, soft-textured surface is aesthetically appealing, eliminating the need and cost associated with coverings,” according to Manker Mills, director of sales and marketing for Homasote Company.

PINnacle deadens sound, and just like basic Homasote board it is insulating and environmentally friendly. It is made from 100 percent recycled post-consumer waste paper, does not contain toxic additives such as formaldehyde or asbestos and is moisture resistant and integrally protected against termites, rot and fungi.

For public buildings, with or without LEED design issues, PINnacle N.C.F.R. panels offer fire-resistance through a unique manufacturing process that mixes fire-retardant chemicals evenly throughout the board. PINnacle N.C.F.R. meets ASTM E-84 Class A requirements and should be used when aesthetics and fire retardant qualities are required.

Homasote is delivering PINnacle to its distributors, for them in turn, to sell to Homasote retailers and lumberyards in 4x8-foot, 3/8-inch panels. A 1/2-inch panel is available by special order.

Reprinted from Design Cost Data (www.dcd.com)

About Homasote Company

Founded in 1909 and located in West Trenton, New Jersey, Homasote Company is known worldwide for recycled, sustainable, environmental, and structural Homasote® board, a basic building block of nearly all Homasote products. Its 700,000-square-foot manufacturing center processes hundreds of tons of post consumer waste paper each workday into unique structural building products on which architects, engineers, designers, specifiers, builders and equipment manufacturers have relied for sound control, insulation, flooring, roofing, interior design, tackability, concrete forming and packaging. Homasote Company is an American icon — the only manufacturer of its kind in the US and the oldest manufacturer of building products from recycled materials in the country. The first Homasote board was produced in 1909, decades before recycling appeared on the American horizon. Homasote was originally used for train car and automobile roofs, later for military housing during both World Wars and then for decades as a premiere exterior sheathing. More about Homasote.

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Obtain A Sample
If you are an architect, designer, builder or building products retailer interested in receiving a sample of PINnacle, please contact Homasote Company's Sales Department at (800) 257-9491 Ext. 1500 or email sales@homasote.com.