With the growing popularity of the raw board look – at Corporate Image, we call our product “the bare board binder” – we wondered what would happen if the binder was exposed to water or rain or even heavy rain. Only one way to find out…take a sample binder and expose to big Midwestern thunderstorm, throw in some lightening and thunder and you get the picture…well 24 hours later we retrieved the binder from the rain-soaked grass to look at the results of our research. The binders board did not delaminate even when completely saturated – that’s a testament to the high quality board we use in our product. We dried out the binder and it was still useful. The great thing is that no toxic chemicals are used to make our binders. We use a very simple recipe: take clean paper from offices, newspapers and magazines and make into a sturdy binders board, add some recycled paper for a cover or not in the case of a bare board binder, put in a reusable ring and then just add contents into the ring. Simple and good for the environment; heck you could even pull out the ring some day and throw the binder into your garden for mulch…try doing that with a vinyl binder.