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Article: Carlon is back in the buoy business: new products are PVC free and environmentally friendly.(Product roundup)
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- National Fisherman
- Article date:
- June 1, 2008
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"It looks just like the old PVC buoy, but it's not. It's special," says Anne Slattery, president of Carlon Flotech Innovations in Waterbury, Conn., a company that is back in the business of manufacturing buoys, especially those used by lobstermen and crabbers, after about a year's absence.
But as Slattery notes, the new Innovations Series buoys are different. The major problem with the previous buoys is they were made of polyvinylchloride, or PVC, as it is better known. Some people refer to PVC as the poison plastic. In California, the use of phthalates (an ingredient in PVC) has been banned in products for kids under the age of three. Phthalates have also been ...