FEATURE ”Natural fibres” OVERVIEW - A review of biocomposite development 32 RESOURCES - The availability of vegetable fibre resources 34 37 RECYCLING - Striking a balance between cost and properties: reuse of paper by-products ADDITIVES - Jazz up your WPC: additives improve WPC mechanically and visually 39 PREPREG - A novel prepreg material combining natural fibres with a furan resin 41 APPLICATIONS - Applications for plant fibre/polymer composites in the industrial sector - Industrial applications for natural-fibrereinforced composites 43 R e s i n s p a r e x c e l le n c e No46 January-February 2009 / jec composites magazine 31http://www.crayvalley.com/