{"id":24684,"date":"2015-03-02T03:09:14","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T02:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=24684"},"modified":"2015-02-27T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-27T10:16:25","slug":"netcomposites-develops-natural-fibre-lft-for-lightweighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/netcomposites-develops-natural-fibre-lft-for-lightweighting\/","title":{"rendered":"NetComposites develops natural fibre LFT for lightweighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-24685 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/240215netcomposites200.jpg\" alt=\"240215netcomposites200\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" \/><strong>NetComposites has developed injection mouldable long fibre thermoplastic (LFT) Flax\/PP and Jute\/PP pellets. The pellets, made using pultrusion technology and commingled yarns, offer a competitive alternative to glass LFT and continuous fibre composites whilst offering a number of benefits. The natural fibres offer a stiffness comparable to glass resulting in pellets which are low weight, capable of complex moulding geometries, offer good impact and creep resistance and improved performance over alternative short-fibre materials.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The pellets are ideally suited to light-weighting applications such as automotive interiors. NetComposites is currently working with an automotive trim supplier to develop an interior panel using Flax\/PP pellets. The materials have a specific modulus comparable with that of glass fibres, but ~40% lighter.<\/p>\n<p>Other LFT variants are in development such as novel polymer reinforced polymer (PRP) pellets with a PET reinforcement and PP matrix. These offer another lightweight and highly impact-resistant alternative to glass\/PP products.<\/p>\n<p>Pellets and moulded parts will be on show at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jeccomposites.com\/events\/jec-europe-2015\" target=\"_blank\">JEC Europe 2015<\/a>, 10th &#8211; 12 March, Paris, France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetComposites has developed injection mouldable long fibre thermoplastic (LFT) Flax\/PP and Jute\/PP pellets. The pellets, made using pultrusion technology and commingled yarns, offer a competitive alternative to glass LFT and continuous fibre composites whilst offering a number of benefits. The natural fibres offer a stiffness comparable to glass resulting in pellets which are low weight, [&#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":[9356,857],"class_list":["post-24684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-jec-europe","supplier-netcomposites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684","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=24684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24684"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=24684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}