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Article: New Wood-Plastic Composites to Boost Industry, Help Use Waste Products.
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- AScribe Business & Economics News Service
- Article date:
- October 2, 2006
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Byline: Oregon State University
CORVALLIS, Ore., Oct. 2 (AScribe Newswire) -- Wood science researchers in the College of Forestry at Oregon State University have developed new wood-plastic composites that are stronger and less expensive than any similar products now available - a major breakthrough for this growing industry.
Wood-plastic composites, often used for such things as outdoor decking, are one of the fastest growing components of the wood composites industry. Some projections have suggested that these products, which were used for less than 1 percent of decking in the mid-1990s, may capture 20 percent of that market by 2010.
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