Nexwood Recycled Plastic Composite Decking

Composite Technology Resources, Ltd. of Lasalle, Quebec has become the latest entrant into the wood-plastic composite decking field with Nexwood™. Unlike other products on the market (Trex^®, ChoiceDek™, and SmartDeck™), Nexwood is made using rice hulls rather than sawdust as the fiber component. Their technology also works with sawdust, and their literature uses the generic term “waste cellulose” to describe either, but the company has found that rice hulls—the hard sheaths that are removed from grains of rice during threshing—work best. The rice hulls are obtained from Arkansas.
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