TimberHP EPDs Document Carbon Storage Across Complete Wood Fiber Insulation Portfolio

Independently verified Environmental Product Declarations document carbon storage and environmental impacts across TimberHP's complete wood-fiber insulation portfolio

MADISON, Maine, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- TimberHP, the first U.S. manufacturer of wood fiber insulation, today announced the publication of Environmental Product Declarations for its full product line: TimberBoard, TimberBatt, and TimberFill. The results show that all three products store more carbon than is emitted through raw material sourcing, transportation, and manufacturing, resulting in a negative cradle-to-gate carbon footprint.

EPDs, independently verified reports detailing environmental impacts across a product's life cycle, provide architects, developers, and builders with transparent data to evaluate the environmental impacts of building materials. Verified under ISO 21930 and ISO 14025 standards, TimberHP's EPDs quantify the biogenic carbon stored within its wood-fiber insulation products alongside the emissions associated with sourcing, transportation, and manufacturing.

Manufactured from abundant wood residuals from the regional forest-products industry, TimberHP's bio-based insulation stores carbon within the building's thermal envelope while helping reduce the energy required to heat and cool the building. When used together, TimberBoard continuous exterior insulation, TimberBatt friction-fit cavity batts, and TimberFill dense-pack and loose-fill insulation create a durable, high-performance insulation system that combines carbon storage with thermal performance and moisture resilience. Because wood fiber is vapor open and moisture tolerant, these assemblies support drying potential and help reduce the risk of moisture accumulation within the building envelope. By supporting durable assemblies and longer service life, the benefits of carbon-storing insulation can extend well beyond initial construction.

"Architects face increasing pressure to meet new sustainability goals by reducing both embodied and operational carbon," said Matt O'Malia, CEO and Co-Founder at TimberHP. "With verified EPDs across our entire product line, we're showing how one specification decision delivers immediate carbon storage while supporting high-performance, durable building assemblies."

The Value of Immediate Carbon Storage

Life cycle assessments account for the emissions associated with raw material sourcing, transportation, and manufacturing in a product's cradle-to-gate global warming potential. Conventional insulation materials, including mineral wool and foam, typically carry a positive embodied carbon footprint, adding emissions before a building is ever occupied. Bio-based insulation changes that equation.

Wood is approximately 50% carbon by dry mass, carbon originally removed from the atmosphere as trees grow. TimberHP uses residual wood fiber from the forest products industry and incorporates that carbon-rich material into durable insulation designed to remain within the building envelope for decades.

TimberHP's EPDs account for this stored biogenic carbon alongside the emissions associated with producing each product. Across TimberBoard, TimberBatt, and TimberFill, the carbon stored within the wood fiber exceeds the cradle-to-gate emissions, resulting in a negative cradle-to-gate global warming potential.

The result is a different carbon equation for insulation: rather than beginning a building's life with an added embodied carbon burden, TimberHP wood-fiber insulation stores carbon within the building envelope from the outset, while its thermal performance continues to help reduce operational energy demand throughout the building's service life.

Explore TimberHP's Environmental Product Declarations and learn more about the carbon impact of wood-fiber insulation at www.timberhp.com/why-timberhp/healthy-planet.

About TimberHP

TimberHP manufactures high-performance wood fiber insulation products for the North American market, designed to meet evolving energy-efficiency codes and support low-carbon construction. Based in Madison, Maine, the company offers three distinct product lines, TimberBatt, TimberFill, and TimberBoard, that provide innovative and cost-competitive alternatives to conventional insulation materials and meet Build America, Buy America domestic production requirements. TimberHP is committed to improving energy efficiency, promoting safer working and living environments, and supporting the revitalization of U.S.-based industrial wood products manufacturing.

SOURCE TimberHP