Wood Plastic Composites - Using Green Strategies to Boost Growth

Publication Date	September 2008
Publisher	Frost & Sullivan
Product Type	Report
Pages
ISBN Number	not applicable
Product Code	FRS00160

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Summary

This strategic white paper deals with the developing role of wood plastic composites (WPCs) in North America as a truly sustainable green material in the building and construction, and several other, markets that traditionally use wood products sourced from the forestry industry. Apart from addressing the wood lumber issue, this white paper addresses the benefits of WPCs that offer the best of two industries with the robustness of wood and the flexibility of plastic. This white paper examines how a cost-efficient, high-quality, and truly green WPC product can be developed to provide immense benefits to the manufacturing industry, as well as the end users.

Content

Wood plastic composites
- Introduction
  - Objective
  - Overview to wood plastic composites
- The wood lumber issue
  - The wood lumber issue
- Robustness of wood and flexibility of plastic
  - Robustness of wood and flexibility of plastic
- Formulating cost-efficient wpcs
  - Overview
  - Wood based filler - lightweight and structural
  - Plastic resin matrix – flexible and machinable
  - Additives - stabilizing and functional
- Features of a high-quality wpc product
  - Performance characteristics
  - Workability and manufacturing
- Benefits of wpcs to industry and end users
  - Overview
  - Summary of benefits
- Defining a truly green wpc product
  - Overview
  - Green criteria
  - Wpc’s environmental performance
  - Green wpc participant models
  - Summary of wpc's green performance
- The green future of wood plastic composites
  - The green future of wpcs