Food-Safe Plastics
Plastics have distinguished history in various food-processing industries from hobby farms, to large industrial freezers, to craft breweries. Keeping your eyes open as you tour these facilities it is hard finding areas where plastics do not have applications: wear...
Pies Fly for Local Food Banks
Each year Redwood Plastics’ employees come together to collect donations for local food banks and shelters. This past holiday season, some of Redwood’s management made a promise to get a pie in each of their faces if the company rose over $5,000. With donations from...
A Little Plastic PR
One of the issues faced by the plastics industry is public relations. The media seems to have regular stories of plastic clogging up landfills, of cute animals caught in ocean debris, and of health risks posed by all sorts of plastics and plastic additives. While...
Simplicity And The Shark Fin
The venerable Shark Fin system has been a proven solution for decades in mills across North America and the world. Shark Fin systems have been installed as far away as Brazil, Australia and Russia. The Shark Fin is a board-turning system that works on gravity alone....
Plastic Fantastic 2014
The plastic industry took part in some exciting innovations this year. Here is just a taste of what made headlines in 2014: 1. Plastics were voted the 6th most important chemically engineered invention of the modern era in a survey, published by the IChemE. 2....
UHMW Tail Drum Idlers
Plastics offer innovative solutions but often not in obvious places. In the sawmill industry, long link drag chain usually rolls over fabricated metal drum idlers. The problem with metal-to-metal contact is premature chain wear and unnecessary noise. Redwood Plastics...
Gold Marketing Excellence and Circle of Champions Awards Presented to Redwood Plastics
The International Association of Plastics Distribution (IAPD) presented Redwood Plastics Corporation with two awards at the opening general session at the 58th Annual IAPD Convention on October 29 in Chicago, IL, USA. Redwood Plastics was pleased to accept both the...
Tuffkast vs. Nylon
Redco™ Tuffkast and Nylon have similar applications in the world of plastics such as bushings, bearings, sheaves, pulleys and even outrigger pads. Some customers get confused between the differences in the material and still others are wary of Tuffkast because, as a...
Impact-Resistant Mirrors For Mining
Edit February 2020: This product is a short-term solution meant to replace OEM mirrors for a few days or weeks until the OEM mirrors can be replaced. The issue is the mirrored surface scratches and de-laminates easily. This product was intended as a short term...