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New Bio-Based Lightweight Material Is Unveiled Pressrelease Date: 2015-10-21, Swerea SICOMP Du kan välja om du vill använda en bild till ditt pressmeddelande eller inte. Använder du bild ska denna hålla måtten: 960x540 pixlar Bild placeras alltid över rubrik, men under datum. New bio-based lightweight material is unveiled. The lightweight, fuel-efficient car of the future can be made using materials from Swedish forests. The research institutes Innventia and Swerea SICOMP have worked together in unique cooperation to develop the first carbon-fibre composite ‘demonstrator’ from softwood lignin. The investments of recent years in test beds and R&D infrastructures to realise the vision of new lightweight forest materials are now starting to pay dividends. The research institutes Innventia and Swerea SICOMP are both part of RISE, Research Institutes of Sweden, and are the first in the world to unveil a composite demonstrator based on 100 percent softwood lignin. Carbon fibre composites are strong and light, with many applications. Today, demand is mainly limited by the high cost. As a result, they are currently used primarily in products where performance is more important than price. By introducing cost-effective lignin-based carbon fibre, the material could also be used in ‘normal’ cars and other bulk products. Lighter cars would mean Fact Swerea The Swerea Group creates, refines and disseminates research results within materials sciences, process technology and product engineering. The objective is to create business benefit for members and customers, and to strengthen the capacity for competition and innovation in the Swedish economy. The Swerea Group has about 550 employees and an annual turnover of MSEK 680. Operations are conducted in five research institutes (Swerea IVF, Swerea KIMAB, Swerea MEFOS, Swerea SICOMP and Swerea SWECAST). The Group has operations in Stockholm, Jönköping, Luleå, Mölndal, Piteå, Borlänge, Eskilstuna, Linköping, Trollhättan and Oslo, and in Brest and St Etienne, France. lower fuel consumption, and would also make electric cars more viable. Sweden can truly become a leading country when it comes to the bioeconomy and fossil-free vehicle fleets. The demonstrator – a sandwich structure in which balsa wood is laminated with carbon fibre – is the first proof that it is possible to manufacture lignin-based carbon fibre, even if this is still only on a laboratory scale. The production of another demonstrator is already under way to demonstrate a future application within the automotive industry. The researchers hope that this product, a model car powered by a lignin-based battery, will lead to a focus on a continuous carbon fibre production line on a pilot scale with an associated R&D programme. “Our first demonstrator is helping us to understand what we need to focus on in our R&D work, so it’s particularly pleasing that we have now taken a big leap forward in the value chain. One of the biggest needs right now is to scale up for a continuous production process so that we can identify the challenges that always arise during upscaling. We hope that both industry and society will be bold enough to invest in this upscaling,” says Per Tomani, Focus Area Manager for Lignin & Carbon Fibre at Innventia. “Alongside this development, intensive work is also taking place to develop the existing manufacturing methods for carbon fibre composites,” adds Birgitha Nyström, Research Leader for Materials Technology at Swerea SICOMP. “We believe in the large-scale production of lightweight materials, and the manufacturing methods for composites must therefore become more cost-effective. There’s no reason to believe that today’s fossil-based carbon fibres can’t be replaced directly with lignin carbon fibre in these production processes.” Contact: Birgitha Nyström +46 (0)911-744 09 [email protected] www.swerea.se Per Tomani +46 (0)8-676 72 81 [email protected] www.innventia.com Fact Swerea The Swerea Group creates, refines and disseminates research results within materials sciences, process technology and product engineering. The objective is to create business benefit for members and customers, and to strengthen the capacity for competition and innovation in the Swedish economy. The Swerea Group has about 550 employees and an annual turnover of MSEK 680. Operations are conducted in five research institutes (Swerea IVF, Swerea KIMAB, Swerea MEFOS, Swerea SICOMP and Swerea SWECAST). The Group has operations in Stockholm, Jönköping, Luleå, Mölndal, Piteå, Borlänge, Eskilstuna, Linköping, Trollhättan and Oslo, and in Brest and St Etienne, France. .
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