Until now, composite materials of wood flour and plastic (wood plastic material, WPC) have been used in wood deck and park facilities as anti-septic woods, but they were manufactured in long bar-shape with same cross-sectional shape by the method called “extrusion molding”. On the other hand, there is a method suitable for mass-production called “injection molding”, that injects heat-melted resin into a metal mold as a method of making a form such as a bucket or a toy. But it has been considered remarkably difficult to injection mold with wood plastic composite, and there has been almost nothing produced commercially.
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