 Green Building Products
In accordance with the new green building programs, builders can often
receive credits for using materials and products that contain recycled
plastic content. At NPI we believe that green building products promote
the efficient use of energy, water and materials. They reduce the impact of a
building on the environment and can lead to significant energy savings for
builders, facility managers, interior designers, engineers and architects.
Plastic products are green in the sense that they can mean conservation of
resources, durability and the efficient use of energy.
Using recycled post industrial scrap, we have developed resins for use in
making a variety of building products. Our specialty polymers include high
density polyethylene: NPI – 04HDPE Mixed Color, linear
and low density polyethylene: NPI – 01LL/LD Mixed
Color and polypropylene polymers: NPI – 10PP212
Mixed Color. All our resins are ideal on their own as quality
resin alternatives or when blended with virgin resins. Our products can be
used to make new green building products from paneling and profiles to
plastic pavers and edgings.
What are Green
Building Products
Green building products are any product with recycled content. They include
any product that will reduce a building's overall impact on natural resources
such as wood or fuel. A good example is the use of recycled plastic in the
manufacturing of wood composite products. This practice has not only made for
a superior product, but a product that uses less wood. The successful design
of green building products using recycled plastic resins not only requires
the right product concept and the right design tools, but the right
materials. More than any other material, products made from plastic must be
designed for the process or method of production. Anybody can design a
plastic product, but it takes an expert knowledge of processes such as the
injection molding process. Plastic product designers not only have to know
how injection molds work to create a product that is cost efficient, but that
consumers will want to buy.
Resin Selection for Green
Building Products
Part of our mandate as a plastic recycling company involves helping
processors choose the right resin for their process. Selecting the right
material is critical to your successful design of a new building product.
Today's product designers are confronted with a myriad of design
considerations, coupled with an ever growing number of available resins and
specialty polymers. The problem lies in fully knowing what will be required
of the product in a wide range of environments along with understanding the
true functional behavior of the polymer. Like many other materials, plastic
has a host of different properties under the categories of physical,
mechanical, thermal, and electrical. There are also several properties
peculiar to plastic that are important for processing them.
Selecting the Right Resin for the Right Process
The most important processing and physical properties for specialty polymers
include viscosity, shrinkage, and melt flow index. Blow
molding and extrusion processes tend to use lower melt flow index, while
injection molding typically uses a higher melt flow index.
1. Viscosity, a measurement of a fluid's resistance to flow, controls
how well a resin fills the cavities or voids in a mold.
2. Shrinkage is the maximum percentage of linear shrinkage that occurs
after drying, setting, and/or curing.
3. Melt flow index (MFI) is the output flow rate in grams that occurs
during a 10 minute period.
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Nexcycle Plastics Inc.
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