Demand for wood-plastic composite and plastic lumber in the United States is forecast to expand 11 percent per year through 2009 to $3.5 billion, according to a study by Cleveland-based market ...

CLEVELAND — Demand for wood-plastic composite and plastic lumber is projected to advance 10% per year through 2011 to $5.5 billion, according to The Fredonia Group Inc.’s new study, Composite & ...

The innovation consists in introducing reinforcing pultruded rods in the plastic matrix during the extrusion process, without any substantial modification of the existing production plant used for ...

Recycled plastic lumber maker Tangent Technologies LLC is investing US$50 million to consolidate and expand its U.S. and Canadian manufacturing operations at a 1.5 million-square-foot facility in ...

U.S. Plastic Lumber signed a letter of intent to test and use post-consumer carpet for some of its DuraTie composite railroad cross ties. Other products USPL expects to test with the carpet include ...

Construction, in particular concrete, is a major contributor to Co2 emissions. Cutting down trees to use as lumber doesn’t help either. So a California company has come up with a clever way to reuse ...

BestPlus Plastic Lumber was used to deck out a backyard oasis for a family in a project for Make-A-Wish New Hampshire. The subsidiary and its parent company, Somerville, Mass.-based Triumvirate ...