Lightweight recycled polymers for the Auto industry using cellulose fibre

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The automotive industry is striving to reduce vehicle weight and desire to use more recycled polymers. For every kg of polymerused, 2kg of weight (replaced metal) is saved. This in turn saves 750 litres of fuel over the life of the vehicle. Meanwhile recoveredpolymer prices steadily increase making recycled compounds expensive. Recycled polymer compounds are expected to meetvirgin specifications at lower cost yet generally contain more ingredients at higher cost to enable them to achieve the sameperformance specification. Our idea is to create a new range of PP compounds using a novel combination of organic fibres andmineral fillers to achieve the properties required. Use of high performance, low cost organic fibres can reduce cost and compound density, providing a significant reduction in specific cost, while meeting the required properties.