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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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.
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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