BPF to participate in UltraFibre project

The new project, UltraFibre, adds to the BPF's projects portfolio, which now totals 11. The full-title of the project is the "development of a radial cell process for the clean, continuous, high volume production by hydro-acousitc decortication of high quality natural fibres for the SME natural fibres sector."

Fibre reinforced polymers find wide commercial application in the aerospace, leisure, automotive, construction and sporting industries. In recent years there has been much interest in developing natural fibre reinforced polymers for a sustainable substitution of synthetic materials, and also to develop markets for the European non-food crop industry sector

The UltraFibre project will address these restrictions in the supply chain by delivering results such as:

• A 25% reduction in production costs
• Commercial thermoplastic and thermosetting composites in targeted end-user applications
• A scalable, economic, continuous, clean- fluidsonics technology to deliver tonnage quantities of high quality fibre

With the prospect of two further projects commencing mid-2010 (Nanoflex and Rotofast), the BPF projects, which include subjects such as energy, composites and rotational moulding, benefit the UK plastics industry broadly, but most importantly, the BPF's membership base.

For more information on this or any of the BPF Projects, please contact [email protected] or +44 207 457 5000.