(plasteurope) -- OKW Enclosures (Bridgeville, Pennsylvania / USA) has extended its product range by offering all standard plastic enclosures for OEM electronics equipment manufacturers in ⌠Biograde C7500 plastic produced by bioplastics compounding specialist FKuR (Willich / Germany). The company, the North American subsidiary of OKW Gehausesysteme (Buchen / Germany), specified the biodegradable material, a polymer blend based on cellulose acetate, as it is obtained from almost 100% renewable raw materials - in this case, cotton or wood.
OKW said that for indoor applications there are no restrictions to the life cycle of the enclosure - heat distortion temperature is up to 123╟C and customer-specific colouring is available through the use of 15 natural dyes.