{"id":14441,"date":"2007-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20071121-06n"},"modified":"2007-11-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T22:00:00","slug":"greengran-to-start-natural-fibre-reinforced-compounds-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/greengran-to-start-natural-fibre-reinforced-compounds-production\/","title":{"rendered":"GreenGran to start natural fibre reinforced compounds production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Dutch company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greengran.com\/\" >GreenGran<\/a> is starting full production of its injection mouldable 30-70% natural fibre reinforced polypropylene compounds in southern Germany this month. The spin-off from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wur.nl\/\" >University of Wageningen<\/a> in the Netherlands will commence production through specialist compounding company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zink-burgau.de\/\" >Walter Zink<\/a>. Initiated back in July, Zink will provide the initial production capacity of 4,000 tpa for the GreenGran compounds.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The news was revealed by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nova-institut.de\/nr\" >nova-Institut<\/a> at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.composites-europe.com\/\" >Composites<\/a> fair in Stuttgart at the beginning of November. The institute was providing a showcase for a number of companies making natural fibre reinforced plastics materials as part of its campaign to promote injection moulding of natural fibre reinforced compounds.<\/p>\n<p>GreenGran\u2019s products result from a 12-year research programme and the company says that although the products are presently restricted to a PP polymer matrix, it has also already gained experience with polylactide acid (PLA) as a polymer derived from naturally re-occurring resources. According to GreenGran\u2019s managing director Martin Snijder, the company\u2019s compounds have capability to substitute PC\/ABS and to compete both technically and commercially, in a price range of 1.65-2.00 \u20ac\/kg, with glass fibre reinforced thermoplastic materials.<\/p>\n<p>Markets for the GreenGran PP-based compounds are foreseen mainly in  packaging and automotive applications, with comparative trials in an existing automotive interior door trim tool having already shown positive results. <\/p>\n<p>(Cf. news of <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/produktkatalog-erschienen-naturfaser-spritzguss-bereit-zum-einsatz-in-ihrem-unternehmen\/\" >2007-10-15<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/\/\" >2006-07-05<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Dutch company GreenGran is starting full production of its injection mouldable 30-70% natural fibre reinforced polypropylene compounds in southern Germany this month. The spin-off<\/b><\/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-14441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441","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=14441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14441"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}