Polymera brings 60 million pound WPC compounding facility

Polymera, Inc., producer of wood and natural fiber polymer composite compounds, announced today that the company has added 60 million pounds of WPC compound capacity at their central Ohio facility.

The 160,000 sq. ft. manufacturing facility, located in central Ohio, houses a state-of-the-art, fully automated manufacturing system for wood/natural fiber polymer composite compounds. The company has the flexibility to provide varying material formulations utilizing a wide spectrum of raw materials per customer specifications.

“Polymera is addressing a need for WPC compound that simply has not been available in the industry, until now,” stated Polymera’s Vice-President, Herb Hutchison. Polymera can provide technology assistance in addition to the WPC compounds. “Our objective is to help extrusion, injection and compression molding companies that would like to enter the WPC market but cannot justify the very large investment in upstream blending and material handling systems.

Merablend™ is a wood/natural fiber polymer composite material for injection molding, extrusion and compression molding applications that targets processors interested in entering the WPC market by offering multiple material options such as varying fiber loadings in High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) and Polypropylene (PP) base polymers. Merablend™ WPC compounds can be used for both interior and exterior applications, in a variety of markets.

Source: Polymera