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WPC properties and strengths
Attractive, resistant, versatile, elegant like wood but without its flaws.
WPCs are composite materials containing a wood component in particle form and a polymer matrix. This product class has been developing over the last fifty years, resulting in increased applications and extended market share.
The matrix could be a thermoplastic polymer such as PVC, PE or PP, which can be processed at relatively low temperatures that prevent wood thermal degradation. Furthermore, these composite materials are attractive because they can be worked with tools already used for wood construction.
Wood as a filler has many advantages to other traditional fillers: lower cost, high strength-to-weight ratio, low density and, last but not least, it’s a renewable resource. In fact, the wood material used in WPCs often comes from post-industrial co-products.
