{"id":14310,"date":"2007-07-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-30T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20070701-07n"},"modified":"2017-10-19T10:06:41","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T08:06:41","slug":"lumber-maker-suing-dow-over-formula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/lumber-maker-suing-dow-over-formula\/","title":{"rendered":"Lumber maker suing Dow over formula"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Federal Way, Wash.-based lumber products giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weyerhaeuser.com\/\">Weyerhaeuser Co.<\/a> is suing Midland, Mich.-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dow.com\/\">Dow Chemical Co.<\/a> over a patented &#8220;oriented\u201d wood-plastic composite extrusion technology. The lawsuit was filed June 21 in U.S. District Court in Wilmington.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In court filings, Weyerhaeuser officials said they acquired the technology when they bought Guelph, Ontario-based <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psacomposites.com\/\">PSA Composites LLC<\/a> in October. According to the complaint, Weyerhaeuser officials believe Dow may be trying to commercialize products using Weyerhaeuser\u2019s newly acquired, patented composites formula. Dow officials may believe that they have a legal right to it due to a relationship with a possible third-party co-inventor, the complaint said. Steven Balick, Weyerhaeuser\u2019s lawyer, said neither he nor the company would comment on the dispute. Dow spokesman Scot Wheeler said the company has not been served with any legal papers, and declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, Frank Maine and William Newson invented the &#8220;second generation\u201d of wood-plastic composites. Maine mentioned the technology in a June 11 piece he wrote for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticstrends.net\/\">PlasticsTrends.net<\/a> Web site. Orientation, he said, is used to &#8220;increase the thermoplastic polymer\u2019s properties enormously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Weyerhaeuser is &#8220;planning to manufacture low-density composites that are twice as strong and half the weight of the first-generation WPCs,\u201d Maine said.<\/p>\n<p>(Cf. news of <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/usa-wpc-decking-now-available-for-industrial-use\/\">2007-06-20<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/weyerhaeuser-announces-intent-to-sell-composite-panels-business\/\">2005-12-06<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/nova-kongress-zweiter-deutscher-wpc-kongress-vom-04-05-12-2007-kln\/\">2007-01-23<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Federal Way, Wash.-based lumber products giant Weyerhaeuser Co. is suing Midland, Mich.-based Dow Chemical Co. over a patented &#8220;oriented&rdquo; wood-plastic composite extrusion technology. The lawsuit<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-14310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14310"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}