Vermont Natural Coatings

Vermont Natural Coatings’ PolyWhey™ wood finishes for floors and furniture enhance the innate beauty of wood.  PolyWhey helps replace petroleum-based products preserving wood with a durable shield that is environmentally safe for those who work with it and for those who live with it. 

Whey is a by-product of the cheese-making industry, which has a high BOD (biochemical oxygen demand) that can increase the burden on waste treatment facilities it can also pollute rivers, lakes, and even the ocean. By reformulating whey into a durable, natural wood finish, a potential waste product is taken out of the waste stream and put to a useful purpose.

PolyWhey has greater durability with a cured hardness that is twice that of the average water-base finish. It also has 25% less VOC content than the standard that most other water-based finishes try to meet. The VOC level for Vermont Natural Coatings’ finishes is ≤180g/L (grams per liter). The toughest In-Door Air Quality standard in the United States is California’s 250g/L.   PolyWhey accomplishes this while using a natural, renewable resource as its bonding agent.

Benefits:

• Twice the Durability: PolyWhey has a cured hardness twice that of other water-based finishes which means it is hard wearing even on floors that have heavy traffic.
  
  
• More Coverage: Conventional water-based finishes have an average coating coverage of 300 to 400sq.ft./gallon PolyWhey’s cover is 450 to 500sq.ft./gallon.
  
  
• Shortened Dry Time: Conventional water-based finishes take 45 minutes to dry. PolyWhey dries in 30 minutes.
  
  
• Easy Application:  VPolyWhey natural finishes have excellent flow, which makes them easy to apply with a brush, spray gun, or lambs wool.