Lightweight recycled polymers for the Auto industry using cellulose fibre

汽车工业正在努力减轻车辆重量，并希望使用更多的回收聚合物。每使用1公斤聚合物，可节省2公斤重量（替换金属）。这反过来又节省了750升的燃料在整个生命周期的车辆。与此同时，回收聚合物的价格稳步上升，使回收化合物昂贵.聚合物化合物被期望以较低的成本满足原始规格，但通常以较高的成本包含更多的成分，以使它们能够达到相同的性能规格。我们的想法是使用有机纤维和矿物填料的新型组合来创造一系列新的PP化合物，以实现所需的性能。使用高性能、低成本的有机纤维可以降低成本和化合物密度，显著降低单位成本，同时满足所需的性能。

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.