{"id":637,"date":"2013-09-18T06:22:26","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T06:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/?p=637"},"modified":"2014-02-14T12:43:16","modified_gmt":"2014-02-14T12:43:16","slug":"castor-bean-plant-an-important-source-of-bio-based-flooring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2013\/09\/castor-bean-plant-an-important-source-of-bio-based-flooring\/","title":{"rendered":"Castor Bean Plant &#8211; An Important Source for Bio based Flooring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers,<\/p>\n<p>This post at Castoroil.in briefs a few excerpts from an article at the Contract Flooring Journal, which was narrated on biobased flooring. The author explains his experience at Ecobuild, which is one of the world&#8217;s biggest events for sustainable design, construction and the built environment and presents interesting insights on biobased flooring and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The author sees castor bean plant as one of the most important plant sources of bio-chemicals. Some of the companies using castor based flooring products, which exhibited at the show include :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interface- Fotosfera ( Offers two pile weight micro tufted or pattern loop carpet tile products which features nylon 6:10 pile of which 63% is castor oil based)<\/li>\n<li>Vorwerk (Offers &#8216;RE\/COVER green&#8217; which is a bio chemical based resilient florring targetted at the vinyl flooring market)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The author also brings his views on Desso, a company which makes its products, using the concept of &#8220;CRADLE TO CRADLE&#8221; &#8211; (\u00a0A\u00a0biomimetic\u00a0approach to the design of products and systems)\u00a0Desso has partnered with Aquafil nylon recycling facility and manufactures Econyl, a 100% recycled yarn in 60% of its carpet tile range. Desso has also developed its equipment and capability to process more than 3000 tonnes of used carpet material through its Take Back Programme.<\/p>\n<p>To read the article , click here &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/19cZBM8\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/19cZBM8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Get to know more about related derivatives:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castoroil.in\/castor\/castor_seed\/castor_oil\/hco\/12_hsa\/12_hsa_hydroxy_stearic_acid.html\">2 Hydroxy Stearic Acid (12 HSA)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castoroil.in\/castor\/castor_seed\/castor_oil\/hco\/12_hsa\/12_hsa_hydroxy_stearic_acid.html\">BP Grade Castor Oil<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castoroil.in\/castor\/castor_seed\/castor_oil\/bp\/castor_oil_bp_grade_castoroil.html\">Methyl Undecylenate<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castoroil.in\/castor\/castor_seed\/castor_oil\/c11\/undecylenic_acid\/methyl_undecylenate\/methyl_undecylenate.html\">Methyl 12 HSA (Hydroxy Stearate Acid)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.castoroil.in\/castor\/castor_seed\/castor_oil\/hco\/12_hsa\/methyl_12_hsa\/methyl_12_hsa.html\">Heptaldehyde<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello readers, This post at Castoroil.in briefs a few excerpts from an article at the Contract Flooring Journal, which was narrated on biobased flooring. The author explains his experience at Ecobuild, which is one of the world&#8217;s biggest events for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/2013\/09\/castor-bean-plant-an-important-source-of-bio-based-flooring\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[98,99,100,97],"class_list":["post-637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-castor-oil-derivatives","tag-castor-based-nylon","tag-castor-flooring","tag-castor-insulation","tag-nylon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":828,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637\/revisions\/828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/castoroil.in\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}