Overhead presentation. European natural fiber market/trends in automotive applications: Consumption of wood/natural fiber composites: Total 2002: 80000 t/a, total 2010: 120000 t/a. Technologies with natural fiber materials: Wood fibers: Wood with/without synthetics: pre-forming, hot pressing. Long natural fibers with thermosets: Flax, hemp, sisal, kenaf: hot pressing. Sisal, flax: LFI, R-RIM. Flax, hemp, ramie-mats: pultrusion. Long natural fibers with thermoplastics: Flax, hemp, sisal, kenaf: pre-heating, cold pressing. 2003 volume total European market: Door panels: Wood and natural fiber material: 44 %, other plastics: 56 %. Instrumental panels: wood fiber mats: 1 %, thermoplastics-longfiber PP: 3 %, reinforced PU: 5 %, natural fiber mats: 6 %, thermoplastics injection: 71 %. Forecast on NFC for injection moulding processes: future trends 2005: Which natural fibre technologies for composites will gain in significance? Natural fibres for press-moulding: 8 %, natural fibres for injection moulding: 32 %, natural fibres + bio-plastics: 19 %.
The future of natura fiber materials (in automotive)
Die Zukunft der Naturfaserwerkstoffe: Stand der Technik, Bedarf und Trends (im Automobilbau)
2004
11 Seiten
(nicht paginiert)
Conference paper
English
Automotive materials - past, present and future
Automotive engineering | 1979
|Automotive Materials Recycling for the Future
SAGE Publications | 1994
|Automotive materials recycling for the future
Online Contents | 1994
|Automotive materials recycling for the future
Automotive engineering | 1994
|Automotive Materials-Past, Present and Future
SAE Technical Papers | 1979
|