{"id":2295,"date":"2022-07-15T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2022-07-15T10:15:17","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T10:15:17","slug":"a-sustainable-alternative-to-carbon-fibre-news-boating-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/?p=2295","title":{"rendered":"A sustainable alternative to carbon fibre? | News | Boating Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>INDUSTRY NEWSA sustainable alternative to carbon fibre?13\/07\/2022Save articleA consortium of science and industry has created what it calls a\u00a0sustainable alternative to virgin carbon fibre.SHOW FULLSCREENSource: GREENBOATSThe textile uses recovered carbon fibres from non-woven fabrics with lower mechanical properties and significantly higher resin absorptionzoom inzoom outThe textile developed by\u00a0GREENBOATS, Swiss-CMT and the Leibniz Institute for Composite Materials, uses recovered carbon fibres from non-woven fabrics with lower\u00a0mechanical properties and significantly higher resin absorption.\u00a0\u201cThere are areas of\u00a0application where carbon fibres are simply vastly superior to other materials hence the need to look at comparable alternatives,\u201d said Paul Riesen,\u00a0head of R&#038;D at GREENBOATS.Natural fibresBio-based natural fibres are the core business of GREENBOATS and it has\u00a0already manufactured entire sailing yachts, cabins for\u00a0wind turbines, or parts for the aerospace industry from flax and other natural materials. But the\u00a0recycling of materials of fossil origin has always been on the agenda.Easy\u00a0processing has been key to the textile\u2019s development. Paul Riesen said that the recycled textile is very easy to cut and drape and is\u00a0suitable for a wide variety of processing methods.A special prepreg, that has been impregnated with the newly developed\u00a0bio-based solid resin, is also being used.The PrePreg, which can be stored without refrigeration, only\u00a0contains as much resin as is necessary and requires a minimum of auxiliary materials,\u00a0which greatly reduces CO2 footprint.The MarineCare project &#8211; \u2019Sustainable composite materials made of recycled carbon fibres and\u00a0bio-based powder resin for maritime applications\u201d is carried out as part of the European funding\u00a0program \u2019Eurostars\u2019 and the German partners are funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and\u00a0Research.\u00a0TopicsBoatbuildingcarbon fibreGreenboatsRecyclingsailing yachts<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boatingbusiness.com\/industry-news\/a-sustainable-alternative-to-carbon-fibre\/1474496.article\">A sustainable alternative to carbon fibre? | News | Boating Business<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>INDUSTRY NEWSA sustainable alternative to carbon fibre?13\/07\/2022Save articleA consortium of science and industry has created what it calls a\u00a0sustainable alternative to virgin carbon fibre.SHOW FULLSCREENSource: GREENBOATSThe textile uses recovered carbon fibres from non-woven fabrics with lower mechanical properties and significantly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/?p=2295\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2296,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2295\/revisions\/2296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marlow-ropes.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}