位于美国加利福尼亚洲斯托克顿的DURAFLAME INC. 宣布2007年4月底在火碳的生产中已经停止使用石蜡。在经营30年后，公司一直追求转向使用非石蜡的天然材料。作为北美火碳品牌的领导者，在超过2.5亿美元的业务中使用生物蜡表明了公司的巨大转变。
公司表明，这一转变是在石蜡价格的上涨和质量的下降的促使下形成的。替换石蜡的年石蜡燃料替换量达1亿磅。随着价格的上涨，使用质量好的新材料给公司带来更多的成本优势。据公司报告，未使用石蜡的火碳新产品燃烧更快，火焰较其他产品燃烧更充分，燃烧更清洁，100%的新品对环境更有好处。
Duraflame, Inc., Stockton, CA has announced that effective the end of April this year it had discontinued the use of petroleum wax in the production of its Duraflame Firelogs. After over 30 years in the business, the company is going all natural by making the switch to non-petroleum waxes. As North America’s firelog brand leader, using bio wax represents a significant change in the more than $250 million business. The company stated that the change was spurred the rising costs and declining quality of petroleum waxes available. Replacing the petroleum wax will displace an estimated 100 million pounds of petroleum based fuel annually. With the rising price of petroleum, the better quality of the renewable materials made them more cost competitive. The company reports that the new firelogs made with non petroleum wax light faster, burn with more robust flames than any other product. They also burn cleaner and are one-hundred percent renewable making them more beneficial for the environment.
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