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An effective and all-natural thermal and sound insulation is flax composite.
Varian, created by Culture In, is one of the items built around these characteristics.
Corn starch, vegetable resin, and flax threads are used to weave it. Varian provides a wide range of cutting and assembly options.
This novel fabric can acoustically insulate an open room while also being translucent and used in interior decoration.
Due to their significant susceptibility to environmental changes and lack of cost effectiveness, flax fibre bio-epoxy composites have not found many commercial applications in structural applications.
Hybrid flax bio-epoxy composites were created by combining non-woven flax mats with untreated unidirectional (UD) flax fabrics after undergoing alkali, acetylation, silane, and enzymatic treatment.
Tests on the modified flax fibres’ resilience to mechanical stress and ageing due to the environment were conducted.
The temperature at which glass transitions occur was found to be roughly 75 °C, with no effect from treatments.
The tensile strength of untreated composites was discovered to be 180 MPa, whereas no appreciable improvement was seen for any of the treatments, which are also not environmentally friendly.
The Global Automotive Flax Composite market accounted for $XX Billion in 2022 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2023 to 2030.
The automotive industry-grade thermoplastic composite stiffeners composed mostly of flax fibres produced, chosen, blended, and woven have been introduced by Porcher Industries (Eclose-Badinières, France).
These items will be marketed as thermo compressible and injection-moulded fabrics. Three thermoplastic filament choices are recyclable PP, biosourced PLA, and PA11.
The company claims that its new, eco-friendly range is the solution to the growing demand from car designers for composite parts that are at once contemporary, stylish, long-lasting, and instantly recognisable as natural.
The thermoplastic stiffeners from Porcher Industries are principally intended for dashboards, decorative elements on automobile door interiors, and more broadly for car cabins.
The company claims that the flexibility to combine different inputs, including flax thread thickness, mixing with thermoplastic resin thread, flax dying, weave type, and surface finishing, opens up a wide range of additional possibilities.
The material selection also offers good performance, high impact resistance, and sound absorption in addition to low weight and cost.
Porcher claims to grow, harvest, and choose the technological flax, in addition to offering traceability, 100% recyclable materials, and decreased environmental effect.
