It applied for materials and process patents

, is a commercial compounder that has offered custom compounds with wood for the past two years. Natural Fiber Composites, Baraboo, Wis. Phoenix Color & Compounding Inc. It hires custom extruders and injection molders to make wood-substitute millwork and mouldings. Its capacity is about 10 million lb/yr. The operation runs three ICMA counter-rotating twin-screw extruders to make sheet for car interior panels and trim., the industry giant, uses its own process to combine coarse wood fiber in a single-screw extruder with recycled PE from grocery sacks and stretch wrap., Lancaster, S. North Wood uses an ICMA corotating twin-screw. Four Milacron lines are installed so far. The firm extrudes wood-filled sheet, laminated on both sides, for automotive applications and is developing sheet for building products. Polywood Products (formerly Pacific PET preform mold Southeast Forest Products) in Diamond Springs, Calif. Mikron Industries, Kent, Wash. inherited the American Woodstock operation in Sheboygan, Wis.

It applied for materials and process patents in 1992. It will soon expand to seven-day operation and expects to add a second line later this year. in Sandusky, Ohio, makes up to 60% wood-filled masterbatches and 30-40% wood-filled compounds of PE, PP, PS, and ABS., is a custom compounder with capacity for 10 million lb/yr, primarily of wood-filled masterbatches. Shore Pacific LLC, Mira Loma, Calif. Lear Corp. The company has one Davis-Standard corotating twin-screw compounding extruder and runs around the clock, five days a week. Its MikronWood includes foamed composites and nonfoamed hollow composite profiles. It uses hardboard scrap generated by its partner and next-door neighbor, G&L Industries.

C., is a two-year-old compounder of custom wood-filled PP, PS, HDPE, and ABS pellets for extrusion and injection molding., combines wood flour and post-consumer recycled plastics to extrude edge reinforcements for boxes and pallets., set up a new plant for eight conical twin-screw lines to extrude wood/plastic composites and other products. It compounds up to 50% wood-filled pellets and also uses wood-filled masterbatches., opened a new plant last August that uses Bausano's dual counter-rotating twin-screw system with one extruder side-feeding the other. Trex makes 50/50 wood-filled lumber for decks and railings.. Trex Co. It pulverizes some of its own flour, putting 5-60% in polyolefins and alloys of ABS and other resins., when it acquired Automotive Industries in 1995., Sheboygan, Wis. Louisiana-Pacific Polymers, Chesterfield, Mich., started six years ago to transform itself from a lumber company into a maker of plastic composites. Star Guard Inc. It makes pellets with 10-60% wood in PE, PP, and PS. North Wood Plastics Inc., Winchester, Va