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US 2018/0002514 A1Published application
Plant fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composition
AssigneeCNH Industrial Canada, Ltd.
InventorsJames Henry, Satyanarayan Panigrahi, Radhey Lal Kushwaha
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Abstract
The present invention is directed to plant fiber-reinforced thermoplastic compositions and a method for reinforcing thermoplastic resins. The present invention provides a use for the cellulose portion of a plant material, which is the portion left over after processing the selected plant materials to separate the hemi-cellulose and lignin from the cellulose.
Claims5
A reinforced thermoplastic resin composition comprising:
- a) a thermoplastic material;
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- b) from about 1 to about 60 weight percent cellulose fibers based on the weight of the composition, the cellulose fibers obtained by the separation of the cellulose fiber fraction from hemi-cellulose and lignin fractions of flax in a decortication process that does not include hammering or bending/flexing the flax.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.