{"id":13864,"date":"2004-10-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20041018-02n"},"modified":"2004-10-18T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-17T22:00:00","slug":"germany-supplier-claims-potential-for-natural-fibres-in-dashboard-mouldings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/germany-supplier-claims-potential-for-natural-fibres-in-dashboard-mouldings\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany: Supplier claims potential for natural fibres in dashboard mouldings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The German automotive interiors components supplier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.draexlmaier.de\/\" >Dr\u00e4xlmaier<\/a> has expressed interest in expanding the use of bio-plastics beyond their current automotive applications, mainly in inconspicuous door and roof linings.<\/p>\n<p>The firm has demonstrated that a mixture of flax and hemp fibres can be used for dashboard mouldings, and offers a safety advantage over polyurethane since it does not splinter during the deployment of airbags. Dr\u00e4xlmaier also notes that burning the flax\/hemp based material in EOLV disposal would emit hardly any more CO<sub>2<\/sub> than is absorbed by the growth of the plants it is derived from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The German automotive interiors components supplier Dr&auml;xlmaier has expressed interest in expanding the use of bio-plastics beyond their current automotive applications, mainly in inconspicuous door<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-13864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13864"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=13864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}