With natural resources rich bamboo resources to prepare a new natural environmental protection material "bamboo fiber", promote the development of bamboo fiber composite materials of automobile parts, aims to improve the environmental protection of the automotive industry upgrade, to achieve lightweight.

Automobile lightweight

The essence of automotive lightweight is to ensure that the performance and quality of the car is not affected or even improved, as far as possible to reduce the quality of the car body, and then achieve the goal of reducing fuel consumption and reducing noise. At present, automotive lightweight materials include two categories: one is the high strength steel and other materials can be used to reduce the thickness of the sheet material; the other is low density lightweight materials, such as aluminum magnesium alloy, plastic and composite materials, etc.. The composite material with excellent properties and low cost, especially thermoplastic composites but also can be recycled, so that the composite material has become the main raw materials of automobile industry, more and more widely used.

Because of the important contribution to the energy saving and emission reduction, the development and application of lightweight materials. Among them, the bamboo fiber reinforced composite material has become the focus of attention for the development of new car parts because of its light weight, high strength and high stiffness.

New environmental protection material

According to statistics, in 2010 the German auto industry will use 200 thousand tons of natural fiber reinforced composites, which means that the natural fiber reinforced composite materials of each car has reached 17kg. Benz Corp reported that the natural fiber composites in automotive applications, can reduce the weight of 10%, the production of similar products can save below 80%. natural fiber reinforced composite materials in automotive parts.

The bamboo fiber (i.e. bamboo fiber), with deodorant antibacterial, anti UV, sound-absorbing insulation, natural degradation and other natural features, and belongs to renewable resources, with the growing awareness of environmental protection, bamboo fiber reinforced composite materials have been applied in automotive interiors, and subject to the industry's attention and concern.

The industry of bamboo fiber, bamboo fiber network founder China industry leader Zhang Yi said that the use of bamboo fiber reinforced composite material in automobile has many advantages: bamboo fiber trim at the time of the accident, because of unique bamboo fiber toughness is not easy to damage, the finished product can make the final weight 20%, will be greatly reduced automobile fuel consumption and exhaust emissions, can completely replace the glass fiber composite material and improve the comprehensive performance of the interior board; in addition, the process is simple, can reduce the production processes, especially to avoid environmental pollution of chemical fiber production process.

Development of innovative applications

In recent years, the application in automotive parts of natural fiber composites based on more than 40 kinds, both home and abroad have also developed with bamboo fiber reinforced composite material of various cars, has been the production of the products are interior panels, roof, luggage compartment, coat rack, seat back, dashboard, sound insulation and damping / materials etc..

The research shows that the development of automobile industry is developing towards the direction of light weight, environmental protection and energy conservation. Bamboo fiber reinforced composite materials as automotive lightweight materials, can also improve the single conventional mechanical properties, physical properties and chemical properties to a certain extent, and can solve the key problems in engineering structures cannot be solved by conventional materials. As a new kind of processing material, bamboo fiber reinforced composite material will be the development trend in the future.