<p></p><p>MONMOUTH JUNCTION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cardolite Corporation has earned the USDA Certified Biobased Product Label for its cardanol product line. Cardanol is the main component distilled from Cashew Nutshell Liquid (CNSL), an annually renewable and non-food chain material extracted from the soft honeycomb structure inside the cashew nutshell.“We are proud to have one of our key product lines receive the USDA Certified Biobased Product Label. At Cardolite, we truly believe in using renewable and sustainable materials to drive innovation and create value for our customers” <br></p> <p>“We are proud to have one of our key product lines receive the USDA Certified Biobased Product Label. At Cardolite, we truly believe in using renewable and sustainable materials to drive innovation and create value for our customers,” said Timothy Stonis, President of Cardolite Corporation. “Cardanol has a long and successful history in the chemical industry of being used to achieve better formulas with unprecedented performance levels. We continue to heavily invest in R&D to advance CNSL technology, and enable the formulation of cardanol derivatives in new applications that can benefit from its unique properties.”<br></p> <p>Over the years, cardanol has found broad use in coatings and adhesives as a building block for epoxy, amine and polyol functional derivatives, and by itself as a multipurpose diluent and modifier. This material’s differentiated structure results in desirable properties: a strong aromatic backbone provides high chemical and thermal resistance, a long aliphatic side chain imparts hydrophobicity and surface wetting, and a phenolic hydroxyl delivers fast cure even at lower temperatures. Cardolite recently developed a proprietary process technology to yield very high purity cardanol grades with ultra light color (Gardner 1 or less) and excellent color stability over shelf life. This leap forward in CNSL processing technology is expanding the use of cardanol to new markets including use as a replacement for potentially toxic materials or substances of concern such as nonyl phenol.<br></p><p></p>