(Plastics News) -- Dow Chemical Co. has donated 600,000 pounds of its Continuum high density polyethylene to produce WaterBrick International Inc.'s plastic containers that will be used to transport clean water to areas of Haiti, and potentially also be used to build more than 400 individual structures. Midland-based Dow and its employees have made other donations in the wake of the January earthquake that killed more than 200,000 and left an estimated 1 million people without homes.
WaterBrick, an Orlando, Fla.-based company, is out to help provide water and the material for shelter with its blow molded containers. The HDPE bottles will be filled with clean water and distributed in Haiti, the company said in an April 8 news release. After they're empty, the bottles are designed so they can be filled with dirt, interlinked and stacked like concrete blocks to create homes, schools and other buildings.
WaterBrick estimates that Dow's donated resin will make more than 250,000 containers ≈ enough to build 460 12-foot-by-12-foot structures or 370 20-foot-by-20-foot buildings.
MRCMRC Reference
Share in the Russian market, 2008:
polyethylene - 2.5% (including LLDPE - 33.1%);
polypropylene - 0.8% (including PP-impact - 1.1%);
polystyrene - 2.6%.
Annual sales growth in Russia, recent 5 years:
polyethylene - 55%;
polypropylene - 28%;
polystyrene - 2%.
Imports by processing technologies:
film extrusion;