Fw: Materials-Related Story

> Dear Colleague:
>
> Progressive Engineer, the online magazine and information source, has
posted
> a company profile on U.S. Plastic Lumber, a company that manufactures
lumber
> from recycled plastic, which offers several advantages over wood.
> Headquartered in Florida and with plants there and Chicago (U.S.), the
firm
> obtains household plastic containers made of high density polyethylene
> (HDPE) from solid waste recycling companies. They grind the material into
> flake and extrude it into standard dimensional shapes of lumber.
>
> You can see this at http://www.ProgressiveEngineer.com
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tom Gibson, P.E.
> Publisher
Received on Thu Jun 24 13:39:24 2004