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- Issue 05 | 2021
Biobased semi-finished SMC products
The ecological footprint of plastics and their energy-intensive production has long been subject of public criticism. An increasing amount of research has been ongoing, focussed on the development of ... - Issue 05 | 2021
Solutions made from renewable materials
Today, the various biocomposites can be easily used in a wide range of applications and have reached the mass market as an alternative to conventional plastics. The annual growth of biocomposite ... - Issue 05 | 2021
Automotive composites from banana bast fibres
Sudents Deepak Sundar Saravana Kumar, Maryam Sodagar and Balaji Subramanian, among others, of RWTH Aachen University, joined forces in 2020 to create a novel product from banana fibres. They founded ... - Issue 05 | 2021
Fire-resistant and biobased
fibre-reinforced composites for structural lightweight design in ships - Issue 05 | 2021
Self-reinforced PLA based on stereocomplex fibres
The steadily growing demand from the industry for sustainable solutions underscores the importance of developing biobased high-performance materials Polylactic acid (PLA) is one of the particularly ... - Issue 05 | 2021
Qualifying FDCA for thermoset applications
For some time now, much has been told about the potential the biobased building block 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) holds for the production of aromatic polyesters [1]. This is particularly true ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Strategic partnership to boost natural fiber reinforced biopolymers
Spectalite, located in Heidelberg, Germany with its manufacturing unit in Quzhou, Zhejiang, PR China, is a global supplier of different natural fiber reinforced material compounds and sheets for ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Biosourced composites for aerospace applications using bamboo fibres
T he French companies Expleo, Arkema, Cobratex, Specific Polymers, Cirimat, Compositadour, Lisa Aeronautics and Mécano ID have come together in Paris, France, late last year to design new biosourced ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Improved filling characteristics of natural fiber-filled melts
Since the beginning of March 2019, the German Plastics Center SKZ, in cooperation with Kunststofftechnik Paderborn (KTP), has been researching possibilities for improving the filling behaviour of ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Biobased surfboards
Most modern surfboards are a sandwich-like construction: a polyurethane foam core – known as a blank – coated with a fibre-reinforced composite. The reinforcements are usually glass, but they can ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Porsche launches cars with biocomposites
Automaker Porsche is leveraging the benefits of organic materials in automotive manufacturing applications. The new 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport features body parts made of natural-fiber composite ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Biocomposites – lessons learned and new opportunities
The global market for bioplastics and biocomposites has very impressive predicted growth rates over the coming decade – mainly based on the increasing demand for sustainable products, stronger policy ... - Issue 04 | 2019
Biocomposites are a great alternat ive
Plastics can be replaced by wood or natural fibres – with biocomposites - Issue 04 | 2017
Continuous production of all-natural fibre composites
Scientists at Germany’s first and only Federal Cluster of Excellence MERGE have developed a promising method for sustainable large-scale production of biobased fibre-plastic compounds. - Issue 04 | 2017
Biocomposite footbridges
Seeking a durable and sustainable alternative to steel footbridges, the Port of Rotterdam contacted Dutch composite experts Fibercore Europe in 2010. This year, 14 new biobased polymer composite ... - Issue 04 | 2017
New line of biobased biocomposites
Green Dot Bioplastics has developed a new line of biocomposites combining natural fibers and Braskem’s I’m Green™ biobased polyethylene. Terratek® biobased biocomposites are designed to meet the ... - Issue 04 | 2017
Composites going green
Biocomposites, wood and natural fibres as well as bio-based polymers at COMPOSITES EUROPE 2017 - Issue 03 | 2015
powerRibs technology
Well-known concepts Back in 2010, two PhD students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) were discussing a technical problem during a run in the forest. They wanted to ... - Issue 03 | 2015
Carbon footprint of flax, hemp, jute and kenaf
1 Introduction Natural fibres are an environmentally friendly alternative to glass and mineral fibres. In the last twenty years more and more natural fibres have started being used in biocomposites, ... - Issue 03 | 2015
Basalt fibers in biocomposites
Basaltex® is a Belgian based company who introduced the basalt fiber to the European Market. It has many years of experience in basalt fibers and its applications. - Issue 04 | 2014
Flax for high-tech applications
Flax fibres are offering the best mechanical properties on the natural fibres market and are thus increasingly used as an environmentally friendly reinforcement for different applications. Their ... - Issue 04 | 2014
Thin-walled composite structures with improved stiffness- and damping properties
Natural fibre composites have gained significant attention over the last couple of years. However, these novel materials struggle to establish themselves at a large scale in the composites industry, ... - Issue 04 | 2014
Natural fibre composites for injection moulding
Next to their standard material classes ARBOFORM® and ARBOBLEND®, Tecnaro have managed to develop natural fibre composites optimized for processing by injection moulding – ARBOFILL®. In the meantime ... - Issue 04 | 2014
Green composites: The coming New Age
Past few decades have seen significant growth in the use of high strength fiber reinforced composites fabricated using carbon, aramid and glass fibers and reins such as expoxy, unsaturated polyester ... - Issue 04 | 2014
Alea iacta est - For a new generation of biocomposites
The innovative Wood Force technology was developed by Sonae Industria SGPS (Maia, Portugal), a leading wood panel manufacturer. Sonae has 50 years of wood processing experience with 24 plants ...