{"id":14379,"date":"2007-02-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20070206-04n"},"modified":"2007-02-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T22:00:00","slug":"usa-bright-spots-for-wood-plastic-composites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/usa-bright-spots-for-wood-plastic-composites\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: Bright Spots for Wood-Plastic Composites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The growth in overall demand for natural and wood fibre composites has slowed significantly to 5-10% per year, down from previous annual growth rates of 15% or more.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><img SRC=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20070206-04\/130106fence.jpg\" align=\"left\" style=\"margin-right:10px;\" BORDER=\"0\" ALT=\"130106fence.jpg\"\/>Higher product prices, lower wood prices, and a slowdown in housing construction have contributed to the slower growth. The industry, however, remains optimistic about growth prospects based partly on the development of new lower priced-point composite products to compete with pressure-treated lumber.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, manufacturers including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trex.com\/\" >Trex<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aertinc.com\/\" >AERT<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timbertech.com\/\" >TimberTech<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiberondecking.com\/\" >Fiber Composites<\/a> have either introduced new composite fencing products in 2006 or will in 2007. The fence industry is a relatively untapped new market for composites, and represents considerable potential for industry growth.<\/p>\n<p>This latest information is detailed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.principiaconsulting.com\/\" >Principia Partners&#8217;<\/a> industry publication, Natural and Wood Fiber Composites Newsletter. <\/p>\n<p>(Cf. news of <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wpc-trex-initiates-agreement-with-lowes-companies\/\" >2007-01-22<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/new-wood-plastic-composites-to-boost-industry-and-use-waste-products\/\" >2006-10-10<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The growth in overall demand for natural and wood fibre composites has slowed significantly to 5-10% per year, down from previous annual growth rates of<\/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-14379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379","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=14379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14379"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}