BIFTTEC

Bamboo Innovative Fiber for Technical Textile and Environment Conservation

Coordinatore	BAMBOO FIBERS TECHNOLOGY SAS    more  Organization address address: RUE DU BOIS 39 city: LAHONTAN postcode: 64270 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Hélène Cognome: Lissonde Email: send email Telefono: +33 559676219 Fax: +33 559693098
Nazionalità Coordinatore	France [FR]
Totale costo	149˙678 €
EC contributo	112˙258 €
Programma	FP7-JTI Specific Programme "Cooperation": Joint Technology Initiatives
Code Call	SP1-JTI-CS-2011-02
Funding Scheme	JTI-CS
Anno di inizio	2012
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2012-05-01   -   2014-04-30

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	BAMBOO FIBERS TECHNOLOGY SAS  Organization address address: RUE DU BOIS 39 city: LAHONTAN postcode: 64270 contact info Titolo: Ms. Nome: Hélène Cognome: Lissonde Email: send email Telefono: +33 559676219 Fax: +33 559693098	FR (LAHONTAN)	coordinator	93˙013.70
2	LE MOULIN GAU SA  Organization address address: LE MOULIN GAU city: PAYRIN AUGMONTEL postcode: 81660 contact info Titolo: Mr. Nome: Henry Cognome: Dumons Email: send email Telefono: +33 468 69 22 34 Fax: +33 468 69 24 04	FR (PAYRIN AUGMONTEL)	participant	19˙245.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

'Fiber-reinforced composites have been in use, in particular for aeronautical applications, for the past 40 years, mostly thanks to their high specific mechanical properties providing high strength and stiffness. Nevertheless, in light of the growing environmental awareness, classic fibers, such as carbon fibers or glass fibers, suffer several drawbacks among which the fact that they are based on non renewable resources, the high amounts of energy required to produce them and their recycling at the end of their lifetime which is problematic. Thus, over the last decade, natural fibers have received increasing interest as a potential replacement for classic synthetic fibers, especially for polymer matrix composites, thanks to their bio-based character, good specific mechanical properties and renewable supply. Bamboo fibers i.e. cellulose fibers extracted from the pulp of bamboo plants have excellent natural mechanical properties. With an average density of bamboo fiber of 0,9, bamboo specific mechanical properties even exceed those of glass fibers.

Bamboo fibers offer new perspectives for producing ‘greener composites’ in the sense that they constitute a renewable resource and the processing of the fibers is environmentally friendly. However, existing bamboo fibers tend to be short and randomly oriented, which means the resulting composite mechanical properties are relatively low. It is well-known that fibers provide the highest strength and stiffness when they are continuous and aligned in the direction of applied load. There is currently no process capable of spinning bamboo fibers into continuous strands. Further developments are therefore needed. In the BIFTTEC project, BAMBOO FIBERS TECHNOLOGY, a French SME which has developed a novel industrial extraction process to extract high quality bamboo fibers proposes to develop a low energy process for converting these bamboo fibers into woven fabrics for use in aeronautical composites applications.'