Chipboard factory. Smoke rising from a chimney at a chipboard factory. Chipboard (also known as hardboard) is a cheap building material made by pressi

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Chipboard factory. Smoke rising from a chimney at a chipboard factory. Chipboard (also known as hardboard) is a cheap building material made by pressing together wood chips and binding them with synthetic a resin at high temperatures. The manufacture of chipboard results in the emission of formaldehyde (methanal) into the atmosphere. Photographed in Hexham, Northumberland, UK.

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