{"id":16927,"date":"2013-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130911-01n"},"modified":"2013-09-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T22:00:00","slug":"weyerhaeuser-developing-cellulose-fiber-reinforcement-for-plastics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/weyerhaeuser-developing-cellulose-fiber-reinforcement-for-plastics\/","title":{"rendered":"Weyerhaeuser developing cellulose fiber reinforcement for plastics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Timber industry giant Weyerhaeuser Co. is getting into the plastics business, developing cellulose fiber reinforcement for plastics, which could be used in place of glass.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The initial product under the Thrive brand uses cellulose as a reinforcement in polypropylene and the first products are already in the marketplace, including a cutting board that has been a top seller at retailer Target, said Jorge Cortes, market development director cellulose fiber for Weyerhaeuser.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full Text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20130905\/NEWS\/130909971\/weyerhaeuser-developing-cellulose-fiber-reinforcement-for-plastics#\" >http:\/\/www.plasticsnews.com\/article\/20130905\/NEWS\/130909971\/weyerhaeuser-developing-cellulose-fiber-reinforcement-for-plastics#<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: Industrial Designers Society of America, lumber, masterbatches, virgin PP, recycled PP, pellets, renewable, natural sources, wood product industry<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>Timber industry giant Weyerhaeuser Co. is getting into the plastics business, developing cellulose fiber reinforcement for plastics, which could be used in place of glass.<\/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":[305],"class_list":["post-16927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-weyerhaeuser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16927","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=16927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16927"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}