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Metro-Wood Environment Friendly Material

By carefully adjusting and controlling the extrusion of a mix of either recycled or virgin polystyrene and other chemicals, a product can now be produced with many of the attributes of wood, indeed in some areas even more!

The Application

The application area is vast and is only restricted by ones imagination. The potential applications within the building industry and the furniture industry simply cannot be measured. Metro-Wood has developed numerous products and fabrication methods. Metro-Wood will be a new product that can offer an alternative to both wood and other plastic products. This material has a U.K. patent for a window system.

The Technology

The secret of this material depends in the development and inter-relation of four basic disciplines:

  • Engineering: the design and construction of the extruda and the downstream equipment with screws and barrels etc. all manufactures within strict tolerances.
  • Profile Tooling: the specific design of the die tips and water cooled formers that enable the production of finished profiles.
  • Formulation: the propriety additive formulations and mixtures which allow the closest replication of almost any wood.
  • Processing: the experience gained through many years of research and development can provide a consistant product output 24hours a day.

The Environment

If you could re-produce the look, the warmth and the feel of wood without destroying the worlds forests, would you? Of course you would. The only trouble is that up to now most wood-substitutes look just what they are - substitutes.

This material presents a product almost indistinguishable in most respects from wood itself. At favourable cost. Not only are you promised a alternative to wood, you could save money and help the forest from indiscriminate logging.

That is only the start, imagine a being able to claim that this product is a product of waste. That it is extruded or moulded out of thrown-away polystyrene - polystyrene is the world's least bio degradable substance.

Not only is this one of the most exciting new materials in years, but each ounce, foot, kilo or metre used rids the world of un-wanted and indestructible packing materials and leaves the trees for future generations.

Amazing but it is true..!

 

 

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