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It's Just String & Glue. This is a newsletter about composites, the strings, the glues, and the business.


Are Plants the Future of Composites?
#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
Apr 228 min read


Flax, Flax, and More Flax, And Some Other Stuff
#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
Feb 118 min read


What’s New in Plant Based Fiber Precursors?
#composites, #sustainability, #plantbased, #biocomposites, #fibers, #resins Article reposted from www.nedpatton.com I saw a brief snippet...
Aug 27, 20255 min read


Biocomposites on Airplanes – Coming Soon to Your Flight
#composites, #sustainability, #biocomposites, #plantbased, #fibers, #resins You heard me right, both of the major transport aircraft...
Jul 2, 20255 min read


Some News About Plant Based Fibers and Resins
#String_and_Glue, #sustainabillity, #recycle, #biocomposites, #plant_based I thought this week I would go back to some natural (that is,...
Sep 5, 20234 min read

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