Jazz up your WPC: additives improve WPC mechanically and visually

摘要

Modifying polymers with additives and colorants has always been an important innovation issue in the plastics industry. In fibre-reinforced plastics, conventional inorganic fillers such as chalk, talcum, glass, aramid, and carbon, as well as natural fibres were used initially. Then, following decades of falling material prices and the wider availability of technical reinforcing fibres, natural materials were relegated to second place. However, in view of the increasing environmental awareness and the search for resource-saving alternatives, the situation has now changed fundamentally. The demand for natural fibres as a reinforcement for composites is on the rise.