Porcher Industries is launching a new range of flax fiber-based thermoplastic composite materials for the automotive industry

This new environmentally aware selection is the solution to increasing automotive designer demands for composite areas that are at the same time modern day, eye-catching, durable, and straight away recognizable as purely natural. Which is just what Porcher Industries has completed with this vary and its subtly apparent flax fibers. It is primarily built for dashboards, ornamental components on car door interiors, and a lot more typically for vehicle cabins. The prospects are produced just about infinite by combining numerous inputs, these kinds of as flax thread thickness, mixing with thermoplastic resin thread, flax dying, weave form, and area finishing.

This new array delivers performances that answer specifically nicely to automotive designer expectations: very low pounds, reduced price tag, high effect resistance, acoustic absorption, much easier recycling, and minimized environmental effect. The latter is lessened as considerably as doable many thanks to a completely French creation method. The complex flax thread is developed, harvested and chosen in France, and it is blended with thermoplastic filaments by our associate cooperative, Terre de Lin. Porcher Industries is responsible for the armor’s style, weaving and ending procedures. Yet another advantage is that flax is 100% recyclable at the stop of its lifetime cycle, and its 100% French sourcing is assured by traceability. The a few styles of offered thermoplastic filaments are recyclable PP, as very well as biosourced PLA and PA11.