The disclosure provides eco-friendly synthetic wood containing coffee grounds, which uses, as main components, coffee grounds and waste gypsum, which are waste resources, and PETG recycled from waste plastic, thereby contributing to protection of the environment, and which enhances formability, post-processability, and a weather resistance of the synthetic wood by reducing a ratio of shrinking-swelling and a water absorption factor of the synthetic wood, and a manufacturing method thereof.

A method and system for recycling wind turbine blades. A scalper scalps off balsa wood and foam from recycled composite chips, a lump breaker shatters the chips produced by the scalper, a hammer mill breaks fiber chips produced by the lump breaker to reduce the chips to strand clusters, a vibratory screen and cyclone air classifier or circular vibratory screener separate strand clusters of acceptable size from larger strand clusters that require repeated processing with a hammer mill, another vibratory screen and cyclone air classifier or circular vibratory screener further separate strand clusters of acceptable size from larger strand clusters that require repeated processing with a hammer mill, and a granulator pulverizes the resulting fiber strand into micro-fibers that can be used as reinforcement fibers.

The present invention relates to a process for the manufacturing of composite materials from natural fibers and thermoplastic polymers. Examples of fibers are wood fibers originating from pulping processes known as refiner pulp (RMP), thermomechanical pulp (TMP) or chemi-thermomechanical pulp (CTMP), but the process can also be applied to other kinds of natural fiber containing raw materials. In the process according to the present invention, fibers are introduced from the blowline or the housing of a refiner into a flash tube dryer, separated from humid air in a cyclone, introduced into a compounder and mixed with at least one thermoplastic polymer and the product is subsequently pelletized. The process according to the present invention is advantageously run as a continuous process.

Materials for use in 3D printing comprising a color shift pigment that change colors when viewed at different angles. More specifically, the materials comprise a color shift pigment being a silicon oxide core with metal oxide shell disposed thereon and a polymeric component.

A method and system for recycling wind turbine blades. A scalper scalps off balsa wood and foam from recycled composite chips, a lump breaker shatters the chips produced by the scalper, a hammer mill breaks fiber chips produced by the lump breaker to reduce the chips to strand clusters, a vibratory screen and cyclone air classifier or circular vibratory screener separate strand clusters of acceptable size from larger strand clusters that require repeated processing with a hammer mill, another vibratory screen and cyclone air classifier or circular vibratory screener further separate strand clusters of acceptable size from larger strand clusters that require repeated processing with a hammer mill, and a granulator pulverizes the resulting fiber strand into micro-fibers that can be used as reinforcement fibers.

An eco-wood formulation finds new uses as construction materials. A rigid polymer material sheet for use in building construction comprises a polymer mixture of ultrafine particles of polyvinylchloride (PVC) impact modifier, plant fiber, coupling agent, smoke suppressant, activated clay, lubricant, an activator, environmentally friendly flame retardant, heat stabilizers, odorless crosslinking agent, foaming agent, desmopressin agent. Alternatively, the rigid polymer material sheet is composed of: a polymer mixture of PVC, plasticizer, nitrile rubber, PCC, stearate, zinc oxide, retardant heat, heat stabilizers, crosslinking agent, vesicant; whereby said rigid polymer material sheet provides enhanced thermal resistance and sound attenuation properties for use in building construction, aviation and marine industries.

An injection molding pellet is applied for injection molding. The base material of the injection molding pellet is a polylactic resin, and the polylactic resin is mixed with wood grains with a grain size that does not exceed 50 ?m.

The application relates to a composition and manufacturing and a use of a composite structure having vibrational properties and to a product thereof. According to an embodiment a composition comprises a matrix material and organic natural fiber material, wherein speed of sound is arranged to be different in different directions in the composition.

Structures for use in forming products having a wood grain appearance include, for example, a plurality of extruded layers having different colors/shades spirally wound about a longitudinal axis to an outer surface to define the structure. The plurality of extruded layers include varying thicknesses along a spiral length of the plurality of layers and/or portions of the plurality of extruded layers encircling the longitudinal axis include portions disposed at different distances from the longitudinal axis. In some embodiments, the spirally winding includes forming a cylindrical structure, and pressing the cylindrical structure into a cuboid structure having a square or rectangular cross-section across the longitudinal axis and at least a portion of the plurality of extruded layers defining a square or rectangle pattern across the longitudinal axis. Longitudinal portions may be cut from the structures to form the products having a wood grain appearance.

A thermoplastic mounting medium (25) configured for embedding and subsequently fixating a sample material (10) in a moulding cavity (11) by means of sintering or melting the thermoplastic mounting medium (25) to become a monolithic bulk material at least partially accommodating said sample material (10) The thermoplastic mounting medium (25) includes a mixture of: polymer mixed with organic fibres, and thermally conductive filler having a thermal conductivity of minimum 5 W/(mK) wherein the thermally conductive filler is mixed homogeneously with the composite material and wherein that the thermally conductive filler represents at least 30% w. of the thermoplastic mounting medium.