New company to challenge hardwood flooring with plastic-woodfibre composite (August 01, 2000) August 1, 2000 By Canadian Plastics SHW Technologies Inc. (SHW) has developed Synthetic Hardwood flooring ...

Hardwood trees are notoriously resistant to decay. A small number of fungi, however, can attach to these trees and degrade the lignin, a strong polymer that is key to wood structure, in its trunks.

A pool owner in NSW required a solution for a rotten hardwood paving restraint that was only 10 years old. Evertuff recycled plastic/wood measuring 200mm x 100mm was chosen as a suitable replacement.