{"id":14874,"date":"2009-09-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20090915-05n"},"modified":"2017-12-12T11:51:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T10:51:58","slug":"complete-houses-constructed-from-wpc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/complete-houses-constructed-from-wpc\/","title":{"rendered":"Complete houses constructed from WPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The british company Tech-Wood Int. Ltd. offers a modular system for quick, easy construction of complete houses from wood plastic composites (WPC).<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The first houses with a living area of 85 m<sup>2<\/sup> and an entry-level price of about \u20ac21,000 are currently under construction in Europe and the USA. To produce the building components, the company relies on well-established formulas with a natural fiber content of about 75%and Polypropylene as matrix. The wood used in Tech-Wood products is from PEFC (and partially FSC) certified forests.<\/p>\n<p>With the use of long fibers, a high rigidity between 6,000 and 7,000 MPa is achieved, which is a distinctive feature in comparison to WPC materials from competitors. Profiles for load-bearing parts receive additional reinforcement with metal or fiberglass inserts to counteract plastic flow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The british company Tech-Wood Int. Ltd. offers a modular system for quick, easy construction of complete houses from wood plastic composites (WPC).<\/b> <\/p>\n<p>The<\/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":[853],"class_list":["post-14874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-techwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874","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=14874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14874"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}