Celfi: Development,production, application and recycling of Wood Plastic Composites Centexbel - Scientific and Technical Centre of the Belgian Textile industry
Results and conclusions
During the last decades, wood plastic composites (WPC) have become popular in the construction of deckings, sidings, but also in the automobile industry. The reason for this is twofold. First of all, they consist of low-cost plastics such as PVC, PP, PE…, which are easy processable due to their good melt flow at elevated temperatures. On the other hand, they contain wood fibres, which are cheaper, ...