#composites, #carbonfiber, #sportsequipment, #winterolympics, #carboncomposites I have been watching the Olympic Games going on in Italy like most of the rest of us. Sunday a week ago was the men’s Luge competition and thankfully there weren’t any horrible accidents. That sport is not only exciting it is also nerve racking to watch. Eighty miles an hour on a little sled barely long enough to hold the slider, going around high banked turns where the smallest mistake could b

#racingsailboats, #sustainability, #naturalfiber, #flaxfiber, #bamboofiber, #bioresins I saw an article in Composites World this week about a flax fiber boat manufacturer I wrote about two and a half years ago – Greenboats – that has been building recreational sailboat hulls since about 2020 using flax fiber. They source their flax of course from France which grows more of this stuff than any other country in Europe. Anyway, the article is about a strategic partnership betw

#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibers, #resins Since this is supposed to be a “newsletter” I thought I would collect some tidbits of news on the composites sustainability front that have come across my feed in the last couple of weeks. I did want to get a couple of state of the art posts done, so the last two weeks I haven’t been keeping everyone up with the latest news. And there has been some news to keep up with, especially in the rec

#composites, #sustainability, #fibers, #resins, #biobased, #naturalfiber, #plantbased I saw an article in Composites World about...

Yes there are, and I’m going to talk about them. This post is about sports and sports equipment made using composites where the sport...