摘要 |
A thermal insulating and substantially moisture impermeable rigid extrusion comprising 40 to 75 wt % rice husks, a coupling agent, a lubricant, a plasticizer, and the balance a thermoplastic plastic, preferably a thermoplastic polyolefin plastic selected from the group consisting of high density polyethylene, low density polyethylene; linear low density polyethylene, homopolymer polypropylene, copolymer polypropylene, and combinations thereof. The rigid extrusion may be an elongated strip in the shape of a panel, a sheet, a board, a stud, a door frame jamb, a door frame header, an I-beam, a hollow post or beam with partially or fully encapsulated glass fibre reinforcing, a baseboard, a quarter-round, a cove molding, a fascia or a soffit. A preferred rigid extrusion has longitudinal tongue and groove side edges and longitudinal ribs and recesses formed across a face thereof substantially from one side edge to the other. The extrusion may be cut transversely to form a rectangular floor panel having a transverse tongue formed in one end and a mating groove formed in the other end for assembly of abutting panels together side-by-side and end-to-end to produce a continuous floor surface adapted for assembly with the ribbed surface facing downwardly.
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