What is laminate flooring made of?
Laminate flooring takes lumber, adhesive, melamine resin, paper, ink and alumina directly. Trace them back and you pass 41 made things on the way to 19 raw materials.
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What goes straight in
From the ground: 19 raw materials
- Timber through lumber
- Water through alumina
- Kaolin through paper
- Limestone through paper
- Bauxite through alumina
- Crude oil through adhesive, paraffin wax
- Natural gas through melamine resin, carbon dioxide
- Air through melamine resin, formaldehyde
- Corn through melamine resin, carbon dioxide
- Soybeans through ink, vegetable oil
- Rapeseed through ink, vegetable oil
- Clay through ink, vegetable oil
- Titanium ore through ink, titanium dioxide
- Iron ore through ink, pigment
- Sulfur through ink, pigment
- Sugarcane through ink, ethanol
- Rock salt through alumina, caustic soda
- Coal through ink, titanium dioxide, coke
- Sugar beet through melamine resin, carbon dioxide, baker's yeast, molasses
Made along the way: 35 things
Metals 1
Chemicals and fuels 25
Paraffin waxAmmoniaCarbon dioxideFormaldehydeCarbon blackTitanium dioxidePigmentEthanolCaustic sodaQuicklimeEthylenePropyleneSulfuric acidMethanolPhenolAcetoneChlorineNitric acidHydrogenOxygen gasHydrogen peroxideHexaneNaphthaBenzeneToluene