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Lintex Compounds Compounds with flax

Cut-fibre reinforcement
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Fig. 3: An increasingly wide range of reinforcements

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Cut technical fibres Natural fillers Fibres and fillers combined

Fimalin is a confederation of six manufacturers that was created in February 2009. Each of the manufacturers represents a step in the technical flax value chain: - Terre de Lin is an agricultural cooperative organization that specializes in seeds and has a genetic laboratory; - the Institut Technique du Lin is the flax industry’s research and development arm, which sets up targeted, concrete and rapidly developable research projects; - the Dehondt group is a leader in the design, manufacturing and marketing of harvesting equipment, in processing and conditioning plant fibres, particularly textile flax; - Legris-Industries group subsidiary Clextral is a package designer-builder of full advanced-process systems and solutions that use twin-screw extrusion technologies to combine fibres and resins for compounding purposes; - leading French chemical company Arkema is a player in the global chemical industry. Its Performance Product division develops and manufactures resins from biomass that enable the development of completely ecodesigned products; - Dedienne Multiplasturgy is a processor with capability in the main forming technologies for short-, long- and continuous-fibre composites. The company is tuned into the main application areas via its end-user customers.

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In the way of processing tools, Fimalin utilizes technologies like injection, extrusion, infusion, forming and RTM. Flax-reinforced composites are lightweight and high-performance, making them suitable for a broad range of applications in the automotive, building, boating, sports & leisure and railway industries, among others.

High-quality supply guaranteed

As a resource, flax may be potentially inexhaustible, but you also have to be To attain its objectives, Fimalin uses able to guarantee composite market needs as a basis for defining processors a sustainable supply of potential applications. The idea is to make high-quality fibre. To do so, Fimalin use of the results of previous projects to works far upstream by investing in find ways to process dedicated flax varietal selection (Figures 4) through varieties, but using different fibreits member Terre de Lin, an processing methods from those used in agricultural cooperative that is the textile industry in order to meet the equipped with a genetic laboratory. requirements for specific applications. The cooperative, which has five industrial sites in Normandy, France, also works on fibre extraction, preparation, qualification and marketing. The Institut Technique du Lin (flax technical institute) is in charge of Fig. 4: Varietal selection guarantees a sustainable industry optimizing

the crop management techniques, assessing varietal performance, keeping bioaggressors under control, perfecting diagnostic and decisionmaking tools for producers, improving harvesting and processing machinery, and also characterizing fibres. Fimalin is the result of an initiative by technical flax professionals who are eager to diversify their markets and move to high-value-added applications. The aim of the valuechain approach is to maintain a close, consistent unity among the players along the chain, from the seeds all the way to the applications. This initiative constitutes a real opportunity to meet the demand in the composite markets for renewable products, with the outstanding properties of technical flax as a bonus (Figure 6). After its cut-fibre projects, Fimalin is moving into the sphere of long fibres with three projects that were launched in early 2010. n
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Automotive - Sora Composites stays ahead of the field
China - CPIC Fiberglass, a strategy with results
APPLICATIONS
Marine - Case study: Composite surface smoothness improvement
Ballistic - Protection you can depend on
MARKET
Human capital - BMW, Composite specialists needed
Focus - Chinese composites market just keeps on growing
Trends - Airbus foresees demand for nearly 26,000 aircrafts the next 20 years
FEATURE SUSTAINABILITY
Market - Targets for bio-based composites and natural fibres
Fibre - Hemp: fibres meant for composites
Technical flax: a real opportunity for composites
Trends - Eco-design
Recycling - Sustainable recycling solutions for composites
SPECIAL JEC COMPOSITE 2011
2nd I.I.C.S.
Awards
JEC Innovation report 2011
RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Medical/bio-composite - Mechanical properties vs. fabrication for medical applications
Prepreg - Innovative epoxy prepregs using bio-based curing agents
TECHNOLOGY & INNOVATIONS
Moulding - Towards smarter, more autonomous moulds
Prepreg - New coating-line concepts for high-precision prepreg products
Carbon fibre - State-of-the-art equipment for carbon fibre production lines
Fibre placement - Optimized fibre placement for composites
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #63 - March 2011 - Technical flax: a real opportunity for composites
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JEC COMPOSITES MAGAZINE - Issue #63 - March 2011 - Carbon fibre - State-of-the-art equipment for carbon fibre production lines
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