Biodegradable

• Cars, boats, planes made with natural fibers (door and roof panels, bumpers etc.) are not only lighter and stronger, but also recyclable.
• Flax shives used for gardening or animal bedding, will naturally disintegrate and dissolve into the soil; they could also be used as a mix for organic composts for fertilizing fields.
• Paperbags and disposable towels made with flax fiber could solve a part of the problem created by plastic bags and plastic disposables.

Human-Friendly

• Contrary to fiberglass or carbon fiber, natural fibers do not release in the air toxic fragments that could damage people’s health.

Light

• One fiber of flax = 2 micron, while a hair crack = 4 micron, which makes flax ideally fitted for isolation materials.
• Natural fibers are more efficient and 30% lighter than fiberglass, thus allowing important fuel savings while used for transportation applications.

Renewable

• Flax cultivation does not require irrigation and its deep-rooting system improves the soil quality for the next cultures.
• 1 ha of flax could give more volume of high quality wood than 1 ha of forest per year.

Carbon neutral

• Flax absorbs the same amount of carbon dioxide as it produces.
• During its processing, it generates only organic waste and its by-products can be used for the production of electricity or heating (pellets) or to make ecological housing material.
• Flax shives used as building material do fix the CO2 safely and indefinitely.

Not dependent on oil

• Contrary to fiberglass, whose production requires a lot of heating energy, and contrary to oil-based chemical fibers, naturally produced flax fibers are not depending neither on oil price nor on oil availability.