Biodegradable plastics take on wood and ash

Toolcraft Plastics has been working with suppliers to check out the moulding characteristics of biodegradable materials impregnated with wood and ash.

Toolcraft Plastics has been working with suppliers to check out the moulding characteristics of biodegradable materials impregnated with wood and ash.

The prime benefit of these materials is low cost, both in material costs and that they can be run substantially faster than conventional plastics.

One application for the wood-impregnated material is in cartridge cases, where retrieval of the ejected case is less practical than the quarry.

Nondegradable plastics would stay in the fields for thousands of years, but by careful control of the percentage of implant and the coatings the degradation period, commencing only when it comes into contact with water, can be controlled to days, weeks or months.

The ash-filled materials are particularly attractive using waste product and highly economical.

Most materials still accept a full range of colours.

Using in-house tooling, Toolcraft can now work most biodegradable materials with confidence.

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