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

This new environmentally conscious variety is the answer to expanding automotive designer requires for composite components that are simultaneously contemporary, appealing, durable, and quickly recognizable as purely natural. Which is exactly what Porcher Industries has finished with this array and its subtly apparent flax fibers. It is mainly built for dashboards, decorative components on car or truck door interiors, and much more frequently for automobile cabins. The prospects are manufactured just about infinite by combining different inputs, this sort of as flax thread thickness, mixing with thermoplastic resin thread, flax dying, weave variety, and area ending.

This new vary gives performances that answer significantly very well to automotive designer anticipations: low fat, minimal charge, significant impression resistance, acoustic absorption, much easier recycling, and minimized environmental effect. The latter is decreased as considerably as achievable thanks to a fully French manufacturing procedure. The specialized flax thread is grown, harvested and picked in France, and it is blended with thermoplastic filaments by our partner cooperative, Terre de Lin. Porcher Industries is accountable for the armor’s style and design, weaving and finishing procedures. A further gain is that flax is 100% recyclable at the finish of its daily life cycle, and its 100% French sourcing is certain by traceability. The 3 types of offered thermoplastic filaments are recyclable PP, as well as biosourced PLA and PA11.