Hemp Composite Cars
Fri, 06/11/2010 - 15:17 — brenda
What is stronger than steel, lighter than steel, used by five major automobile companies including Mercedes, and contains an easily renewable resource? Hemp composite! Hemp is widely used in many ways today- from vehicles to luggage to sound reinforcing to musical instruments. Here are a few of the reasons why hemp composite is being used in the making of cars:
- Cost effectiveness
- High tensile strength and stiffness
- Availability/sustainability of a consistently high quality resource
- Reduces molding time
- Easy to process and recycle
- Excellent replacement for glass fiber
- Well suited for needle punched non-woven products
- Weight reduction in finished part
- Can be customized to meet a wide variety of specifications
- Works in different manufacturing systems