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- Issue 01 | 2023
The new all electric SUV series to use bio-attributed vinyl car seats
ndependent Volvo spin-off and high-performance electric car manufacturer Polestar (both from Gothenburg, Sweden)has introduced BIOVYN™ in its brand-new Polestar 3 SUV. The new model, described by ... - Issue 01 | 2023
Sustainable banana fibre composites for automotive interior applications
According to the EU Climate Package: Fit For 55, Europe aims to become climate-neutral by 2050. The proposed regulations also aim at reducing CO2 emissions for new passenger cars and light commercial ... - Issue 01 | 2023
Fine Mycelium materials for sustainable automotive interiors
Biotechnology company MycoWorks (Emeryville, CA, USA) recently announced its newest investor GM Ventures, the investment arm of General Motors (Detroit, MI, USA), and their long-term agreement to ... - Issue 01 | 2023
Demonstration tire made from 90 % sustainable material is approved for road use
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (Akron, OH, USA) recently unveiled a demonstration tire comprised of 90 % sustainable materials. This demonstration tire has passed all applicable regulatory ... - Issue 01 | 2023
Biobased materials don’t lack behind in performance or price
Like any other, the world’s automotive industries have had to flex and adapt to the needs of a changing globe: Hybrid engine technology, environmentalism, fossil fuel crises have all played their ... - Issue 01 | 2023
Flax based biocomposites for Hyundai
nvironmental commitment is the new resolution for 2023, and Hyundai Motor Group (Seoul, South Korea) and Hyundai America Technical Center (HTCI) (Ypsilanti, MI, USA) showcase theirs by featuring ... - Issue 01 | 2023
Audi uses chemically recycled material for the first time
LyondellBasell (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) and Audi (Ingolstadt, Germany) recently announced a first-time collaboration to help close the loop for mixed automotive plastic waste. - Issue 01 | 2023
Recycling technology for inexpensive, high-quality carbon fibre
Carbon-fibre-reinforced plastics (CFRP) are highly attractive for various industries in demanding application fields due to their unique balance of rigidity, mechanical strength, and lightweight – ... - Issue 01 | 2022
Car headliner from plastic waste and old tyres
Grupo Antolin, (Burgos, Spain), a global supplier of technological solutions for car interiors, presents the first headliner substrate produced by thermoforming a PU foam with materials made from ... - Issue 01 | 2022
Bioconcept-Car has 3 new siblings
The development goes on with a lot of natural fibre composites, and more… - Issue 01 | 2022
Sustainable materials in high-end luxury car
The VISION EQXX is the result of a mission Mercedes-Benz (Stuttgart, Germany) set themselves to break through technological barriers across the board and to lift energy efficiency to new heights. It ... - Issue 01 | 2022
Why cycle when you could travel in style?
The Finnish entrepreneur and guitar maker Ari-Jukka Luomaranta introduces a new way to travel in style – the Kinner-car, a modern retro-style velomobile. The Kinner is a two-seat four-wheel ... - Issue 01 | 2022
Automotive Bioplastics Market
Future Market Insights (FMI), Dubai, United Arab Emirates, has forecasted the Automotive Bioplastics Market to grow with a year on year growth of 10.3 % in 2022 reaching a value of about USD 687.5 M ... - Issue 01 | 2022
BIOMOTIVE
The amount of plastics used in the production of a car is over 20 % of its weight, excluding car tyres. The automotive sector production, despite the increasing use of advanced technologies and the ... - Issue 01 | 2022
Lightweight biobased cellulose reinforcement for automotive applications
The automotive industry continuously strives to improve the driving range of cars. Whether being per litre of petrol for a combustion engine or in kilowatt-hour (kWh) for electrically powered ... - Issue 01 | 2022
Bio-PA composites
Renewable 1,5 pentanediamine based polyamide composites for automotive applications - Issue 01 | 2021
Sustainable lightweighting for large scale mobility
Swiss cleantech company Bcomp from Fribourg develops sustainable lightweighting solutions for high-performance applications. Its award-winning approach to applying the latest composites knowledge to ... - Issue 01 | 2021
Automotive supplier launches PLA compounds
The automotive industry is increasingly working on aligning vehicle production with the principles of sustainability. The development of appropriate materials plays a decisive role in this process. ... - Issue 01 | 2021
Luca, the world’s first Zero-Waste Car
Every year, Netherland-based student company TU/ecomotive produces an electric car with a team of 21 BA students from the Eindhoven University of Technology, in the aim of showing the world that the ... - Issue 01 | 2021
From guitar to Automotive
Lingrove, the San Francisco, USA, based biocomposite manufacturer has set its eyes on the automotive market with their flagship material Ekoa® Surface. Originally developed as a lightweight ... - Issue 01 | 2021
A CASE for biobased engineering plastics
In recent years, the automobile industry has been undergoing a once-in-a-century transformation period, with new technological innovations collectively called CASE (Connected, Autonomous, Shared ... - Issue 01 | 2021
Strategic partnership leverages sustainable solutions for automotive sector
The global pandemic that defined 2020 triggered a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions due to lockdowns and stay-at-home measures which dramatically, albeit temporarily, decreased the use of ... - Issue 01 | 2020
New sustainable interior automotive plastic
Eastman’s engineering bioplastic innovates for circular ec onomy via proprietary recycling technology - Issue 01 | 2019
LCA - Methodology and tools
BioMat_LCA - Integration of environmental indicators of biobased materials in the industrial planning and design process - Issue 01 | 2019
Light- weighting and use of ocean plastics
Bcomp enables 40 % lighter automotive interiors and upcycling of ocean plastic for automotive interior parts - Issue 01 | 2018
Bioplastics made with wood fibres
Researchers in Halle and Potsdam (both Germany) are experimenting with composite-materials made of beech fibres and bioplastics. - Issue 01 | 2018
The biocomposite market cannot grow fast enough
Fibre reinforced polymers (FRPs) are predominantly made of mineralic or synthetic fibres, such as glass or carbon, and a petrochemically sourced thermosetting resin or thermoplastic matrix. However, ...