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WPC Corporation(WPCC) is a company involved in the manufacture and marketing of Wood Plastic Recycled Composite materials, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. The mission of WPCC is to market, sell and create new application, hence new demand for its products. To this end, we logic the 21st century to be an era where wood construction material to be produced in factories instead of the forests.
WPC Corporation has been established by MBO from EIN Engineeing Co.,Ltd and are owner of patented EINWOOD™ developed in1992 and sold in Europe, Korea, Hong Kong, the French Polynesian, Singapore, Malaysia, China, Taiwan, Middle East among other countries. WPCC is the largest international marketing company in the Japanese industry, and is an acting board member of the industrial committee for Wood Plastic Composite materials.
Working at EIN for the 10 years, Takeyasu Kikuchi CEO of WPCC was involved in heading the R&D for the present WPC licenses. Amidst industry growth, WPCC strategized to develop stronger marketing scenarios, and to evoke market awareness so that fewer trees were cut and less environmental damage caused to our earth.
In 2004, Takeyasu Kikuchi established the WPC Corporation, with concentration towards the marketing and sales of its product to further broaden and expand the WPC industry which has limitless growth potentials. WPCC will also act as technical consultants to cultivate and expand the market for WPC with continued technological progress.
The strengths of WPCC resides in the expertise of formulating, profile design, machine consultation, application development, as well as its associative marketing. At the same time, in order to achieve market growth, WPCC will continue to license the technology increasing available supplies.
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EIN(Takeyasu Kikuchi CEO of WPCC was acting as COO/SVP of EIN) has been developing Wood-Fiber/Plastic Composites since the mid 1980's when their first generation product was developed. This original first generation product of the 1980's was similar to some of the "Conventional Plastic Wood Composites" currently on the market in North America today. EIN(Takeyasu Kikuchi CEO of WPCC was acting as COO/SVP of EIN) worked to enhance this first generation product and made it available to the public through its first licensing venture with Misawa Home Corporation in 1992. Misawa Home used this product for many different indoor applications in the homes they built. It was used for flooring, moldings, cabinetry, and many other interior applications.
As a first generation product, it still had some limitations however. The strength, dimensional stability, natural appearance, water absorption and durability were still considered by WPCC to be limiting in the products overall potential. This was the reason that the latest version of EINWOOD™ was developed*. EINWOOD™ solves all of the problems associated with conventional Wood Plastic Composites as well as natural wood.
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Similar to Aluminum in Dimensional Stability
Heat Resistant up to 120º C. (248ºF)
Retains Water Resistance and Flexural Strength at repeated testing in -30ºC (-22ºF) Temperatures
Screw Holding Power 3 times greater than natural wood
Won’t deteriorate by ultraviolet rays
Superior Flexural Strength
Absorbs under 3% moisture after 30 days submersion in water
Paintable and stainable
Looks and feels like natural wood
Can be finished with the look of fine high quality furniture
EINWOOD™ can be Extruded and Injection Molded
Can be produced using PVC, PE, PP, ABS, PS
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 Conventional Plastic Wood
One of the biggest obstacles in manufacturing plastic wood composites is the removal of moisture from the Wood Flour used to make the product. Wood and Thermoplastics, which are petroleum based, will not adhere to each other naturally especially if the wood contains any moisture. “Conventional Plastic Wood” products do not address this issue. Typically, in these processes, wood flour is dried to 0.5% -3% moisture content. The wood is then added to an extruder along with the plastic. The two compounds are mixed in the extruder and pushed out of a die. Since the two products are not physically attracted to each other especially because of the moisture content, the products only co-exist and never completely bond to each other. Furthermore, wood acid can be created from this moisture, which can cause other problems in an extruder. As a result, the products strength, water absorption ability, and many other physical characteristics can be affected.
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In an effort to eliminate the need to cut down the earth’s natural wood resources, WPCC has a goal to spread its technology throughout the world. As a result of these efforts, WPCC hopes to protect the world’s forest and reduce the affects of global warming.
WPCC is interested in not only making product itself as WPCC understands that this can be accomplished more effectively through other innovative companies throughout the world. This is why this technology is be in offered to other companies through a product license
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Companies that license EINWOOD™ will be required to pay a nominal license fee. They will also be required to pay a royalty on the sales of the product for the life of the WPCC Patents. |
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The licensee will receive the right to use the patents involved with this technology. They will also receive the right to use the EINWOOD™ trademark. WPCC will provide assistance in the training of the licensee’s personnel as well as assistance in starting up the licensee’s initial manufacturing facility. WPCC will be available to assist in the initial die designs, screw designs, and other relevant technical assistance that may be required to produce EINWOOD™. Furthermore, Technical drawings and instruction manuals will be provided.
The WPCC process also requires some technical know-how that is not included in their patents. Understanding this know-how is essential to the success of creating EINWOOD™. WPCC will also provide this know-how to all licensees in order to create a successful product launch.
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