#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibers, #resins As promised, this post will be about the roadmap that I keep talking about for the industry, and what exactly I mean when I say roadmap. And this will be the sixth and final blog that is from my newly released book, “Sustainable Composite Materials: A Roadmap to a Circular Economy”. I wanted to leave my audience with a sense of what my new book is about to make sure that everyone that reads

#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibers, #resins This post, again, is at least loosely based on what I wrote in my new book, “Sustainable Composite Materials: A Roadmap to a Circular Economy” released on April 6 by McFarland, my publisher. And, if you are going to SAMPE in Seattle next week, I will be doing a book signing there on Tuesday April 28 in the SAMPE Spotlight Theater. From “A Closer Look at Plant-Based Composites” AZO Materials

#composites, #sustainability, #biocomposites, #plantbased, #plantresins, #SAMPE This week will be the fifth tied to what I wrote in my new book, “Sustainable Composite Materials: A Roadmap to a Circular Economy”. In this post, I am going to try to answer this question based on today’s markets and today’s technologies. That means that I want to talk through the potential of plant-based precursors for both fiber and resin and biocomposites in general to transform the composit

#composites, #sustainability, #rawmaterials, #greenmaterials, #naturalfibers, #naturalresins I’m going back to what I wrote about a couple of weeks ago – the recommendations for the composites industry that I have in my upcoming book. I promised that I would deal with each part of the industry in turn until I got all the way to the recyclers, talking about where we are today and what I see as a path to sustainability that each piece of the industry can take. From https://act

#composites, #sustainability, #naturalfibers, #autoindustry, #circularity This week I thought I would highlight one of the things I touched on in my second book and also expand a bit on a theme I brought up a few months ago. The idea is that there is a growing trend in the auto industry to make their products more environmentally friendly as well as easier to recycle when the auto is used up. This theme is a recurring one in many industries, but since the auto industry uses

#composites, #sustainability, #circulareconomy, #roadmap, #bookwriting I got the proofs for my book last week, and over the weekend I put together the index and got it back to my publisher. That is the last task I have to do before it goes to print. I did look over the proofs, found a couple of typos (best to find those now) and suggested moving some figures around so that they line up with the text better, so now it is up to my publisher. The book is 200 pages long, so it

#composites, #sustainability, #flaxfiber, #biocomposites, #fibers There appears to be quite a bit of movement in the natural, plant-based fiber business this past week or two. Two announcements came out in Composites World about companies that are scaling up their flax fiber composite reinforcements business, and another one that I will talk about a bit later about a basalt fiber production facility being built in the Middle East. New Circular Structures USA Inc. Facility i

#composites, #textiles, #naturalfibers, #bioresins, #historyofcomposites I read a really good book this last week about the history of textiles. The title of the book is “The Fabric of Civilization, How Textiles Made the World” by Virginia Postrel. This book is a number one bestseller that my wife bought for all of us in the family to read. It was recommended by John and Hank Green, the Vlog Brothers who also are the creators of the Crash Course series of educational YouTu

#composites, #sustainability, #plantbased, #biocomposites, #fibers, #resins Article reposted from www.nedpatton.com I saw a brief snippet...

#composites, #sustainability, #biocmoposites, #lactate, #plantfibers, #bioresins A really interesting article popped up in a feed that I...

#composites, #sustainability, #plantbased, #mushroomfiber, #pineapplefiber, #bananafiber, #seaweed My wife sent me a SciShow link this...

#composites, #sustainability, #biocomposites, #plantbased, #fibers, #resins You heard me right, both of the major transport aircraft...

#composites, #sustainability, #carbonfiber, #cellulose, #lignin, #plantbased Last week I focused on the up and coming composite resins...

#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #recycledfiber, #plantbased, #biocomposite This week is going to be sort of a hodgepodge of...

#composites, #sustainability, #cellulose, #plastic, #biodegradable, #microplastics, #ocean I came across a really interesting article in...

#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibermanufacture, #resinmanufacture This week I thought I would touch...

#composites, #sustainability, #thermoplastics, #recycledfibers, #recycledresin I saw an article in Composites World this week that I...

#composites, #sustainability, #biocomposite, #naturalfibers, #plantbasedresins, #plantbased I have written about biocomposites, plant...

#composites, #foreverchemicals, #toxicity, #carbonfiber, #petroleumbased As promised from last week, this is part 1 of a multi-part...

#composites, #sustainability, #certification, #recycledfiber, #recycledresin, #recycling, #reclaimedfiber, #reclaimedresin I’ve seen some...