| Title: | Nyloboard Building Materials |
| Author: | Bacon, Forrest ; Holland, Wendell ; Weitz, Jack ; Kelly, Patrick |
| Abstract: | Three new categories of building materials are discussed, all made from needle-punched mats obtained from shredded carpet: (1) "Nyloprime" is made with a two-component adhesive mixture that undergoes foaming reaction to drive the liquid through the dense fiber mat; this material can create a wood-like material in sheets, comparable to plywood or oriented strand board; (2) "Nyloflex" uses heat to soften low-melt polymers such as polypropylene, into a leather-like material; and (3) "Nyloplate" uses resins or heated compression of Nyloboard, to create a harder material that approaches a ceramic in its traits. All three forms offer several major advantages over wood products (including waterproof, bug-proof, and high strength), and can be made by placing a single additional machine at the end of a needle-punch line. |
| Type: | Presentation |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1853/11092 |
| Date: | 2002-05-13 |
| Contributor: | Nyloboard LLC |
| Publisher: | Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Subject: |
Building materials
Wood-replacement products Ceramic-like material made from recycled carpet Leather-like material from recycled carpet |
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