Manufacturing Industry
FOAMING Expands Possibilities for WOOD-FIBER COMPOSITES.(Brief Article)
Plastics Technology, July, 2001 by Schut, Jan H.
"Foam will be the next wave of wood replacement after decking," predicts Don Murray, industrial sales manager of American Wood Fibers, which sells wood flour and plastic master-batches. "It's the next evolution."
"Foaming is a big cost saver," says David Swinscoe, plant manager at Iso-Teck in Pompano Beach, Fla. "It cuts your material costs in half." Reducing profile density by 20-25% saves roughly twice that much in material cost because the resin may be only 40-50% of the profile but is typically 80-90% of material cost composites can't go now." Floating docks could be one. The U.S. Navy funded a five-year, $10 million program at Washington State Univ. in Pullman, Wash., to develop foamed wood composites that could replace pressure-treated lumber. Dock...
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