{"id":22502,"date":"2014-09-17T03:12:16","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T01:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=22502"},"modified":"2014-09-16T11:47:19","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T09:47:19","slug":"composites-evolution-materials-used-lightweight-sports-canoe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/composites-evolution-materials-used-lightweight-sports-canoe\/","title":{"rendered":"Composites Evolution materials used in lightweight sports canoe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22503 alignright\" alt=\"Lake200\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Lake200.png\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/>Composites Evolution\u2019s Biotex Flax materials have been used successfully by German-based canoe designer Lake Constance in its \u201cFelicity\u201d freestyle canoe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Biotex range of natural reinforcements provide a sustainable alternative to high-performance materials such as glass fibre. Biotex materials are designed by composites experts specifically for composites processes and are suitable for a wide range of applications such as automotive, sports and consumer products.<\/p>\n<p>For its \u201cFelicity\u201d canoe, Lake Constance were looking for materials with excellent mechanical properties which could still maintain a natural aesthetics to the final product. With proven mechanical properties and easy processing, Biotex Flax helped Lake Constance stay true to the unique look and feel needed for its product.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cFelicity\u201d is a precise and agile solo canoe designed for freestyle and touring. Lake Constance build the canoes in-house, in a vacuum infused all-natural-fibre construction.<\/p>\n<p>Sebastian Stetter at Lake Constance Canoes, commented \u201cUsing Biotex Flax meant we took a huge step forward towards fulfilling our mission \u2013 building canoes which are as sustainable as possible. Working with it was such a pleasure that we want to use it everywhere. Once we made the switch to flax, we never looked back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Composites Evolution\u2019s Biotex Flax materials have been used successfully by German-based canoe designer Lake Constance in its \u201cFelicity\u201d freestyle canoe. The Biotex range of natural reinforcements provide a sustainable alternative to high-performance materials such as glass fibre. Biotex materials are designed by composites experts specifically for composites processes and are suitable for a wide range [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[2853,8005],"class_list":["post-22502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-composites-evolution-biotex","supplier-lake-constance-canoes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22502","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22502\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22502"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=22502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}