A natural building product for lining internal walls and ceilings in commercial, industrial and residential applications, Durra Panel is a truly sustainable building material made entirely from reclaimed wheat straw.
Durra Panel is manufactured in Bendigo, Victoria using agricultural waste – straw stubble – which is a by-product from food crops, sourced from farmers within a 100km radius of the manufacturing facility. This straw is abundantly available and is renewable with every year.
Durra Panel uses a unique dry extrusion manufacturing process which requires no water, gas or chemicals. Using only heat and pressure, a natural element within the straw is released and allows the panel core to self-bind without resins or binding agents with an extremely low embodied energy.
This incredibly sustainable process allows Durra Panel to provide positive benefits for both humans and the environment. Being 99.9% free from Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), Durra Panel creates spaces that embody an extraordinary natural feeling while providing healthy living and working environments.
Our built environment creates approximately 40% of the world’s waste, so environmentally friendly building materials are a necessity. Durra Panels are 100% biodegradable and don’t end up in landfill at the end of their useful life. Instead they can be used as compost or soil conditioner, which avoids contributing to the millions of tonnes of toxic building waste that end up in landfill across Australia each year.
The innovation of Durra Panel is its simplicity, working with nature and the natural carbon cycle by using a waste resource to produce a building material that can be returned to the earth at the end of its useful life.
Durra Panel presents a great opportunity to change the way the world thinks about building by choosing a healthy building material with a nature positive impact.
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