Hardboard Clipboards manufactured from a type fiberboard.Similar to particleboard and medium density fiberboard, but is denser  and much stronger and harder because it is made of exploded wood fibers that have been highly compressed . It differs from particle board in that the bonding of wood fibers requires no additional materials although resin is often added. Unlike particle it will not split or crack. Crane’s  hardboard is dry  processed hardboard smooth on both sides. Earth friendly see the Ghibli our new legal size PLUS hardboard ring board with low profile rings.

Unlike solid wood  hardboard is very homogenous with no grain. A wood grained veneer can be glued onto it to give the appearance of solid wood.  Hardboard is popular among acrylic and oil painters as a painting surface due to its economical  price (though it must be coated with gesso or canvas before use).

Hardboard has long been used as the surface material in economy letter size wood clipboards. It is also used as the final layer in many skateboard ramps and the Half-pipe.

The wet manufacturing processes for these man made wood panel products  were developed in the 1930s,40s and issued Letters Patent by the United States PTO.  The patents have mostly expired along with  trademarks that were allowed to expire.

Clean and green. We live in a litigious nation and  we see constant legislation for  environmental controls that are increasingly necessary as forward looking leaders see the planet beginning to suffer.  Could plastics be the DDT of the oceans?

Crane Binder Technologies wants to market the wood hardboard clipboards to the very offices that are entrusted to protect the infrastructure  of modern society and build up human worth and dignity Can you help?

Clipboards are needed to do the physical inspections. Note taking materials, business forms and filing products.Think of the hardboard clipboard as the paper companion to your Smart Tablet, iPhone/ iPad, wood clipboards.

Hardboard is an Environmentally Preferred Product (EPP) certified by the Composite Panel Association.

Composite Panel Association is 55 year old North American  wood based  panel and decorative surface trade organization. The association provides leadership on federal and state levels.

Progress is being made in sustainable forestry and process mills.  CPA offers an Environmentally Preferable Product (EPP) certification program, which certifies composite panel products that contain up to 100% recycled  or recovered  fiber and meet low formaldehyde emission limits. Most EPP - certified mills have also achieved compliance with California’s stringent  tough new regulation on formaldehyde emissions- the CARB rule.

NEWS RELEASE: Steel TOE Clipboard tm is a new hardboard clipboard created by Crane Binder Technologies. Unique , novel wood hardboard clipboards that have protective metal corners. Dec 1, 2014.