Fiberboard and particleboard are increasingly used in the manufacture of furniture as a more economical alternative to solid wood. Current commercial particleboard employs urea formaldehyde (UF) resins as the primary adhesive which is a major health concern since they steadily release formaldehyde, a known human carcinogen. Moreover, formaldehyde-based resins are derived from petroleum, a non-renewable resource. TRRG has developed a soybean protein-based adhesive as a viable resin alternative for particleboard formulated almost exclusively from natural products and is completely formaldehyde-free.

Soybeans are a renewable resource and one of the most abundantly grown industrial crops in the world. Composites fabricated with soybean protein-based adhesives demonstrate performance properties that match and exceed those of commercial particleboards manufactured with UF resin.