ebuild - Decking, Site & Landscaping

January 8, 2008 - New London, NC - Fiber Composites, a leading manufacturer of composite decking and railing, is launching a new line of residential decking boards that will change the way the contractor and the homeowner think about decking. Called fiberon® Sanctuary Decking, this new product is one of the most easy to install, durable, low maintenance and realistic looking decking boards on the market.

Fiberon Sanctuary Decking takes the wood - and all its performances issues - out of the board and utilizes only the positive performance features of PVC (Poly Vinyl Chloride). The board consists of a cellular PVC (or foamed PVC) core with no fiber fillers, which eliminates edge cracking, stain retention and water absorption. This core is surfaced with a durable, highly weatherable layer of ASA (Acrylonitrile Styrene Acrylate), a material used to protect automobile bumpers and outside mirrors. ASA resists fading, is more abrasion resistant than wood-plastic composites and provides a cellulose free surface to the fiberon Sanctuary deck board.

Added to this is a proprietary process that uses unique color variations from a blend of light and dark hues to create the natural variation found in real wood that has already won industry wide accolades for the fiberon Tropics decking line. Then, a photo-realistic embossing pattern, captured precisely from real hardwoods, is pressed into the surface resulting in a remarkably natural look and feel...

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