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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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