California extends sale dates for composite panel products
Heath E. Combs -- Furniture Today, June 8, 2011
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California furniture retailers are among those that have been given more time to sell off product that doesn't comply with the state's stringent new composite panel regulations.
The California Air Resources Board last week extended two sell-through dates that affect enforcement of the first phase of new composite panel regulations here.
The regulations involve formaldehyde emissions from composite panel, a commonly used product in wood furniture and upholstery frames.
The state's new standards began implementation by a phased-in approach starting in 2009. Several parties in the supply chain are now working to sell off inventories containing Phase 1 board.
The new deadlines allow businesses to sell existing inventories of furniture and other products manufactured before the more stringent Phase 2 standards become effective for them.
Last week's extension affects Phase 1 sell-through dates for distributors, importers, fabricators, and retailers of finished goods containing hardwood plywood with a veneer core, according to the advisory. The deadline to sell that product was extended from June 30 of this year to June 30, 2012.
The sell-through date for retailers of finished products containing Phase 1 particleboard or MDF remains June 30, 2012, according to the original regulation.
The sell-through date for distributors, fabricators and retailers of pre-Phase 1 finished goods was previously extended by CARB until Dec. 31, 2011.
The extension granted last week also affects distributors of Phase 1 particleboard and medium density fiberboard panels made before Jan. 1, 2011. That group's sell through date was moved from May 31 to Dec. 31 of this year, aligning it with the sell-through date for panel retailers.
No extensions were provided to manufacturers of hardwood plywood with a veneer core, particle board and MDF, all of which currently must be Phase 2 compliant.
Also, all hardwood plywood with composite core and thin MDF being manufactured for California must now be at least Phase 1 compliant.
CARB said the extension would also alleviate confusion caused by current staggered sell-through dates, "especially with regard to the labeling requirements," the advisory said.
The agency has issued several delays of sell-through deadlines since the sale of goods slowed in the economic downturn.
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