Sustainable Lightweighting for High-Performance Applications
You have the application, and we have the right natural fibre composite solution for you.
Applications
Our high-performance material solutions build on the exceptional properties of renewable flax fibres to replace standard engineering materials in areas from automotive to mass transportation and from motorsports to luxury yachting and sports without sacrificing any performance.
Automotive
Our solutions for large-scale automotive interior and exterior parts enable exceptional weight- and plastic reduction while introducing completely novel design opportunities.
Mass Transportation
Buses, trains, subways, and airplanes – thanks to our specialist products like fire resistant ampliTex™ natural fibre reinforcements, the benefits of sustainable lightweighting that have already convinced the automotive industry can also have an impact across the full bandwidth of mass transportation.
Motorsports and Supercars
Match the performance of carbon fibres with natural fibres thanks to our proprietary motorsport solutions. Improve safety and vibration damping while reducing environmental impact.
Sports
Natural fibres for enhanced performance and feeling. Sustainable and lightweight, our ampliTex™ flax reinforcement fabrics enable innovation in sports gear by increasing performance, delivering a signature feeling and reducing environmental impact.
Marine
From kayaks and sailing boats to ultimate luxury yachts, we provide beautiful, sustainable and vibration damping material solutions for both interior- and exterior applications.
Lifestyle
Luggage, designer watches, consumer electronics and luxury furniture, our sustainable natural fibre materials are extremely versatile and offer a distinct and customisable natural beauty and aesthetic while adding functional benefits.
Infrastructure
From bridges to entire building facades and interior structures, our ampliTex™ and powerRibs™ solutions can create architectural objects with extraordinary design and aesthetics while using a renewable material instead of conventional fossil-based materials.
Sustainable lightweighting
Dematerialisation
Circular solution
Customisable appearance
Benefits
Bcomp’s ampliTex™ and powerRibs™ natural fibre composites are a circular material solution that replaces conventional engineering materials without compromising performance. Harnessing the excellent mechanical properties of flax fibres allows our materials to provide significant benefits like high specific stiffness, outstanding damping properties, increased safety thanks to a ductile fracture behaviour and all of this in a circular solution that is CO2 neutral from cradle to gate.
Lightweighting
powerRibs™ and ampliTex™ reinforcements allow you to create lightweight parts and components with a renewable bio-based material that is compatible with standard manufacturing processes. Compared to traditional IMPP plastic, our natural fibre composites enable 50% lighter components and parts.
Renewable materials
Bcomp’s flax fibres are CO2 neutral cradle-to-gate. Taking part in a natural cycle of biogenic CO2, the flax plant absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere during its growth and stores it for the entirety of its lifetime as a plant and composite reinforcement.
Dematerialisation
Making the most of this multifunctional performance material, allows us to simultaneously reduce weight and material use while providing a luxury aesthetic where it is desired.
Circular solution
Bcomp’s natural fibre composites are trail blazers for a circular economy. Combining ampliTex™-PP with NFPP and our patented powerRibs™-PP results lightweight parts made from a monomaterial which can easily be recycled into a new base material for injection moulding parts.
Naturally beautiful aesthetic
ampliTex™ stands out with its ability to infuse a modern and natural aesthetic into the design of your components. With a wide range of customisation options, it allows for a multitude of looks and colours, adding a touch of personalisation and uniqueness to each part.
Fully customisable
The needs of our customers are as diverse and unique as themselves. Therefore, we do not confine ourselves to a standard portfolio only but offer a vast range of customisation. Bespoke weaves and colours to achieve your signature look, a reinforcement optimised for your mechanical needs or a fire-resistant solution – we have got you covered.
Testimonials
They trust in our high-performance solutions to work towards a cleaner future.
“We understood the huge potential of this material and, finally, after years of development together with our suppliers – and Bcomp – we’ve found the key to applying it in high volume production. Our own signature weave brings a luxurious and technical finish to this natural fibre composite, which means it can now be used as a functional and visual material.”
Maximilian Missoni, Head of Design, Polestar
“Our partnership with Bcomp has been a game-changer in helping us find new opportunities for incorporating natural fibre composites into our design and engineering. We worked with the Swiss cleantech specialist on Formula 1’s first natural fibre racing seat, which made its debut at the 2021 British Grand Prix.”
from the McLaren Racing Sustainability Report 2021
“We’re very encouraged by the possibilities offered by flax composites, which is why we used them both in the interior and on the exterior of the Volvo Cars Concept Recharge. It is a material that is environmentally responsible with a very low carbon footprint that also delivers an attractive and natural aesthetic.”
Robin Page, Senior Vice President Design, Volvo Cars
“We really enjoy working with the knowledgeable experts at Bcomp. Not only was the technical material information available, but the collaboration allowed for the R&D process and for us to appropriately specify the material for accurate performance and flex characteristics.”
Craig Tompkins, Product Designer, AK Durable Supply Co.
“Two of our most popular twin tips are now part of the Concept Blue range, featuring new materials for kiteboarding, flax and basalt. For the twin tips, we are using flax and basalt fibre to mainly replace glass fibre in the production process; it offers similar properties, but with many added benefits. It is a natural material that is eco-friendly to create, far more so than traditional glass fibre. It also offers superior damping capabilities compared to glass fibre. These attributes make it a great material to use in our twin tips.”
Manuel Zwinz, Product Designer, Duotone
“A large part of innovation in ski technology is in material research, particularly composites. So, to find a like-minded business focused on harnessing flax fibres in a unique way that aligned with our engineering efforts has been fantastic – it definitely helps that the Bcomp team are just as passionate about skiing as we are!”
Jed Yeiser, Ski Product Director, Elevate Outdoor Collective
“Product sustainability is increasing in importance in the world of motorsport too. So, we are delighted to have Bcomp on board as an official BMW M Motorsport partner for the BMW M4 GT4 project.”
Franciscus van Meel, Chairman of the Board of Management at BMW M GmbH
“[…] it is our aspiration to constantly adapt our long-standing engineering know-how to current environmental requirements in order to be able to offer our customers sustainable products at the highest technological level. In Bcomp, we have got a development partner with extensive experience in sustainable materials. The result of our cooperation shows that technologically equivalent components can be created from alternative materials.”
Anne Mink, Manager Technical Development, HWA AG
“We must all ensure that natural fibre composites are used more and more in the world of automotive components.”
Eduard Ene, Specialist Interior GT-Road Cars, Porsche Motorsport
“Bcomp’s natural fibre technologies are a perfect match for the goals we set for ourselves in Extreme E, achieving the highest level of sustainable performance and safety. We are very happy about the successful collaboration with Bcomp as both companies are technology leaders in sustainable motorsports.”
Théophile Gouzin, Technical Director, Spark Racing Technology
“Swiss natural fibre firm Bcomp came up with the idea of using fully sustainable flax to create high-performance composite materials… then we came up with the idea of using these composites in the Polestar Precept.”
Thomas Ingenlath, CEO, Polestar
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