SpaceTruck'n
03/19/2004, 03:13 PM
FiberWeed!
Shure, Carbon Fiber LOOKS awesome, but this is DOPE!
I was surfing the composite sites trying to find some less expensive Fiberglass and Cabon fiber fabric and ran across these guys.
http://www.netcomposites.com
They call it “hemp-wool”, but whatever you call it, we ALL know what it really is: FiberWeed.
Its really being used for car interiors.
Check it out:
http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?1991
“Hemp, like flax, is also used in the interior trim for cars. “In this market, natural fibres have great appeal for manufacturers since they weigh only half as much as glass fibre, for which they are a substitute, and are half its price,” says the spokesperson for Chanvrière de l’Aube. Similarly, the co-operative has recently turned its attention to rigid plastics. To enter this market, it formed, with Eurochanvre (a subsidiary of cereal growers’ co-operative Interval, in the Haute-Saône region), a company called Agro Fibres Technologies Plasturgie (or AFT Plasturgie).”
Cheech And Chong should have patented it, they’d be rich by now!
No, I mean REALLY rich.
They’re also investigating whether hemp could be used to make brake pads:
http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?1998
Shure, Carbon Fiber LOOKS awesome, but this is DOPE!
I was surfing the composite sites trying to find some less expensive Fiberglass and Cabon fiber fabric and ran across these guys.
http://www.netcomposites.com
They call it “hemp-wool”, but whatever you call it, we ALL know what it really is: FiberWeed.
Its really being used for car interiors.
Check it out:
http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?1991
“Hemp, like flax, is also used in the interior trim for cars. “In this market, natural fibres have great appeal for manufacturers since they weigh only half as much as glass fibre, for which they are a substitute, and are half its price,” says the spokesperson for Chanvrière de l’Aube. Similarly, the co-operative has recently turned its attention to rigid plastics. To enter this market, it formed, with Eurochanvre (a subsidiary of cereal growers’ co-operative Interval, in the Haute-Saône region), a company called Agro Fibres Technologies Plasturgie (or AFT Plasturgie).”
Cheech And Chong should have patented it, they’d be rich by now!
No, I mean REALLY rich.
They’re also investigating whether hemp could be used to make brake pads:
http://www.netcomposites.com/news.asp?1998