Coastal Plywood Company

1. Is Coastal Plywood Company a member of the American Panel Association (APA)? What is your mill number?
Yes, Coastal Plywood Company is a proud member of the APA and all of our on-grade plywood is APA grade stamped. Our mill number is 351.

2. What are your shipping hours?
Normal shipping hours for plywood orders are 7:00 AM -11:00 PM Monday - Friday. Please be here in time to get your bill of laiding before the 11:00 PM closing. Please note these hours are subject to change without prior notice.

3. How much do your packs weigh and can you load a van or a container?
1/4" weighs approximately 3700 LBS and has 132 pieces per unit.
11/32", 15/32", & 19/32" weigh approximately 3200 LBS.
11/32" has 88 pieces per unit.
15/32" has 70 pieces per unit.
19/32" has 56 pieces per unit.
23/32" has 46 pieces per unit and weighs 3450 LBS.

We do not load vans or containers. We load flat bed trucks and rail boxcars only.

4. Does Coastal Plywood Company use an interior glue to lay up panels?
All of the glue we use is exterior glue; therefore, all of our Rated Sheathing is Exposure 1. Any C grade or higher must be exterior glue.

5. What qualifies Structural-1?
APA designated Structural -1 panels must meet all PS-1 requirements plus special species, grade, and glue bond requirements. Our Rated Sheathing Structural-1 contains D grade inner ply with additional restrictions, exterior glue, and 100% Group 1 SYP species veneers. All of our C & Better Exterior panels meet the requirements of Structural - 1 since they are all PS-1, exterior glue bond, and 100% Group 1 SYP veneers. We will stamp our exterior panels as "Struct-1" for an upcharge.

6. Is Coastal Plywood Company a manufacturer T1-11 or OSB (Oriented Strand Board)?
Coastal Plywood Company is strictly a plywood manufacturer and does not produce T1-11 exterior siding or OSB.

7. Is Coastal's BC plywood considered underlayment?
11/32" - 23/32" BC panels are approved for underlayment and indicate this on our BC grade-stamps.

8. Is concrete form plywood a product Coastal manufactures?
BBOES (Oiled and Edge Sealed) is the concrete form we produce. We also Oil and Edge Seal other products by special order.

9. What is Radiant Barrier Sheathing and do you produce it?
Radiant Barrier Sheathing is a Rated Sheathing product that has a foil coating on one face of the panel. This foil coating reduces up to 97% of the radiant heat transfer from the roof to the attic and helps keep the house cooler and the energy bills lower. Coastal produces radiant barrier panels marketed under the name SolarPly.

10. Do you make a CC panel?
CC is a downfall product from AC, BC, and BB. Our 11/32" is PTS (Plugged and Touch Sanded). 15/32" CC, 19/32" CC, & 23/32" CC is NOT PTS (Plugged and Touch Sanded). Our CC is usually sold in 1/2 packs.

11. What is the National Green Building Standard?
The National Green Building Standard was the first green building standard ever approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) in 2008. This standard provides an alternative to the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED® program, which is considered by many as being biased against wood construction. The National Green Building Standard is more appropriately weighted to the entire life cycle of products being used for construction whereas the LEED® program focuses more on where the constructions materials came from.

12. Is Coastal's plywood stamped "Heat Treated"?
Coastal Plywood Company's panels are exempt from regulations requiring the "Heat Treated" stamp because all of our plywood veneer is heated to high temperatures during the manufacturing process. When wood is being shipped in or out of the U.S., the "Heat Treated" stamp is required on solid lumber products to insure that they have been kiln-dried at a high enough temperature to kill any harmful organisms. The stamp is required on solid wood, not on plywood since it is an engineered wood product. For further clarification on this issue please read the statements below which come from www.apawood.org, the American Panel Association website.

Engineered Wood is Exempt from ISPM-15
Plywood, OSB, and laminated veneer lumber (LVL) are members of the engineered wood family. The severe environments that the raw materials experience in the manufacturing process not only destroys any live organisms in the wood but dries it down to 6-8% moisture content making it a very lightweight, economical shipping platform.

Clear Customs with Engineered Wood
Engineered wood packaging materials are exempt from ISPM-15, an International Standard for Phytosanitary Measures adopted by the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). Under this standard, wood packaging materials are required to be either Heat Treated to 56 degrees C to the core for 30 minutes or fumigated with Methyl Bromide to the schedule in the ISPM15 document. A total of 134 nations will eventually implement ISPM15 regulations regarding the importation of solid wood packaging materials.

Engineered wood packaging materials are exempt from ISPM-15 regulations because the manufacturing process not only destroys live organisms in the wood, it also minimizes the moisture content, resulting in extremely lightweight, economical shipping products.

13. Is Coastal Plywood Company FSC or SFI certified?
We are not FSC or SFI certified at this time.

Coastal Plywood Company has recognized the need for sustainable forest management throughout the history of the company, long before the environmental movement became so popular. All of the logs used in the manufacture of plywood at our facility are procured within a 100 mile radius of Havana, Florida and come from American southern pine forests, which are the best and most cared for forests in the world. Since we believe in providing our customers with the most competitive pricing possible, we have chosen to forgo expensive and redundant certification programs and pass the savings on to our customers. No certification programs can make our plywood more environmentally friendly, they will only make it more expensive. You can be confident when buying our products that we meet all local, state, and federal regulations and guidelines regarding sustainable forest management.

PerformancePanels.com provides the following information:
"Forest Certification programs sprouted in the 1990s to address rampant deforestation and mismanagement in developing countries. Today there are several forest certification agencies that verify the sustainable forest management practices of land management companies, forest product manufacturers, and other related organizations. The certifying agencies typically assess forest management using sustainable forest principles, criteria, and performance measures."

"North American companies have practiced sustainable forest management long before certification came into existence. For this reason many manufacturers opt to forgo some certification programs - not because they do not comply with the standards of certification, but rather because of the expenses involved in obtaining and maintaining certification, which may include independent auditing, membership dues, and additional fees. Contact each manufacturer directly to learn about its philosophy and practices regarding sustainable forest management."

14. Is mold and mildew a problem? What can be done to prevent mold growth?
Coastal Plywood Company ("CPC") produces high-quality plywood suitable for residential and commercial construction, as well as various industrial applications. We manufacture, store, and load our plywood in accordance with APA, TECO, ANSI, HUD/FHA, #VM40C and PRP 133 standards.

CPC certifies that when we ship plywood from our mill, it is dry and it's moisture content is below 16%. According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, moisture content of 19% or higher is required to support mold growth.

CPC's requirements for proper handling and storage of it's plywood to prevent mold or mildew
growth are:

Distributor Delivery: CPC only loads and ships dry plywood. Distributor should receive and unload plywood only under cover and place it in dry storage immediately.
Job-site Delivery: Hauler should keep plywood dry during transport and builder should store plywood at least 4" above ground and covered by a suitable moisture barrier.
Ventilation: Keep plywood in well-ventilated areas and store above ground and away from standing water.
Inventory Rotation: Use plywood production dates to ensure proper inventory rotation (first in, first out) in all distribution channels all the way through to final consumption.

CPC cannot control how it's plywood is handled once it is shipped. CPC therefore expressly disclaims any liability for mold or mildew growth that occurs on it's plywood after CPC ships it or for any damage such mold or mildew growth may cause.

15. Does Coastal produce "formaldehyde free" plywood
The following is our statement regarding formaldehyde emissions and our plywood products.

Formaldehyde is a ubiquitous molecule, commonly found in small amounts in the environment. It's also a naturally occurring biological molecule found in living organisms. Human blood contains about 2 ppm of formaldehyde.

Coastal Plywood Company uses phenolic resin glue as the bonding agent for their high quality plywood. Therefore all APA grade-marked panel products produced by Coastal Plywood Company are manufactured in accordance with U.S. Voluntary Product Standards PS-1 or PS-2 and they exceed all U.S. requirements pertaining to formaldehyde emission standards. In fact, large-scale chamber tests have shown that formaldehyde emission levels in Coastal’s panels are no higher than the levels found naturally in the environment. Indeed, because formaldehyde levels associated with phenolic resin-bonded products are so low, these products easily meet or have been exempted from the world’s leading formaldehyde emissions standards and regulations, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the California Air Resources Board (CARB) Air Toxic Control Measure for Composite Wood Products, Japanese Agricultural Standards (JAS), and the EN 300 standard for European markets.

In summary, the terms "formaldehyde free" and "zero formaldehyde" are misnomers since the formaldehyde molecule is all around us. But Coastal’s panel products are the solution to your "lowest formaldehyde" requirements.

For more information on formaldehyde in panel products, please click on the following link at performancepanels.com: http://www.performancepanels.com/?content=app_pp_atr_form