You see, flax fibers have lots of advantages, chief of which being the fact that flax is a plant-based, renewable resource. This means that, apart from it being easy to obtain, it’s also easy to ...

Natural fiber has seen better acceptance in motorsport, where jagged carbon fiber debris can cut tires, ruining races and potentially causing crashes. Bcomp produced natural fiber bodywork for BMW ...

Flax fiber is soft, even lustrous, and stronger than cotton. During the early settlement period, flax was cleaned, combed and then spun to create a wide variety of linen fabrics, with the finest ...

So far, the results of the tests look good. The results have been very similar to crash patterns of traditional carbon fiber structures. The main difference here is that the flax-based fibers don ...

Flax fiber is soft, even lustrous, and stronger than cotton. During the early settlement period, flax was cleaned, combed and then spun to create a wide variety of linen fabrics, with the finest ...

In the Stone Age, advances in fiber technology globalized people not communication. As early as 32,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers figured out how to transform wild flax fibers into cords suitable ...

Goodbye, Carbon Fiber Back in 2019, BMW began working with Bcomp, a clean-technology company that the German automaker owns stake in, to implement the flax-composite in its Formula E cars. After ...