What I was expecting was a kit with plastic materials for walls and furniture, a few decorative items and a lot of electronics.
Dow Chemical ( DOW) supplies plastic materials and chemicals to customers around the world, but North America is its largest geographic market, producing 36.4% of first quarter 2010 revenues.
The killer chemical is mainly produced by burning plastic and materials containing chlorine.
"Our new PSCs are made from plastic-like materials and are lightweight and flexible, " he said.
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"It's not just more people driving, it's also every product that you buy is made of plastic or synthetic materials out of China is made with oil, " said Patrick Chovanec of Tsinghua University.
Prisoners had makeshift weapons, including broomsticks and batons made of plastic bottles and other materials.
But getting companies to make the switch from traditional materials to plastic is no easy sell.
But getting companies to make the switch from traditional materials to plastic, despite its advantages, is no easy sell.
Such materials might include plastic or photovoltaic glass, which changes from transparent to opaque at the flick of a button.
Banco Verde Vida (Green Life Bank) pays with its moeda verde (green currency) for recyclable materials such as plastic bottles, tins and used cooking oil.
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New this year is a three-storey circular light installation entitled Rising Moon, made from 7, 000 plastic bottles and other recyclable materials floating on a pool of water in Victoria Park.
Oh, and they decided to build the airplane out of plastic along with other novel materials and technologies, so it would have been a big experiment even if Boeing approached manufacturing like it always had.
The interior gets softer materials instead of hard plastic as well as silver, satin and chrome-plated accents.
Rising costs for raw materials like steel and plastic are one reason Chrysler and other automakers had a tough year in 2006.
Methods include plastic-coated windows, energy-absorbing materials and tying down heavy objects and ceiling panels.
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GoodWoodWatch, a collaboration of local environmental groups and the Canadian branches of Greenpeace and the Sierra Club, has praised Vanoc for using renewable, local lumber in place of building materials like steel, aluminium and plastic, which have much higher carbon costs.
Worldwide, airlines have been slowly but steadily putting into operation two next-generation aircraft -- Boeing's 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A350 -- both of which have shells made heavily of composite materials, such as carbon-fibre reinforced plastic, instead of aluminium.
On Tuesday, construction materials littered the front lawn of the house and plastic tubing snaked down from the top floor to a cargo container.
Dow's materials-engineering center is busy brainstorming ways that plastic can be used to replace wood and steel in durable goods, particularly home appliances and auto parts.
One of the ways that Chapman added lightness to his cars, the use of composite materials such as carbon fibre and glass-reinforced plastic, is not that practical either.
One problem facing the company, whose other brands include Sprite, Fanta, Dasani and Minute Maid, is another rise in the cost of raw materials, including sweeteners, juices, metals and plastic.
In addition to recycled products, Ford also uses other eco-friendly materials including soy foam seat cushions and natural-fiber plastic in center interior components.
Yes, it feels good in the hand, owed in part to that matte plastic back and subtle arc S-like curve, but the materials feel cheap.
FieldTurf is looking at new materials: instead of gravel underneath the surface, it might start using recycled plastic tiles, which would be faster and cheaper to install.
On Saturdays the haulers, their wives and their children gathered at the recycling center to clean out the plastic pails they gave to customers for collecting the newspapers, magazines, bottles and other recycling materials.
The environmental result is that the value chain sucks ever more raw materials through as fast as possible, swallowing up huge volumes of timber, steel, plastic and energy in the process.
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It's a smart use of materials to make the body seem a little more expensive and tactile given that it's just black plastic.
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The bullish argument has it that the Chinese will find materials cheaper, even if only marginally, and will hence buy more of them: no more substituting plastic tubes for copper ones.
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