09/12/2022 – Rubber production
Renewable cellulose-based fillers
In two years of intensive collaboration between Empa and the Datwyler Schweiz AG as part of an Innosuisse project, a process was successfully developed that brought together the worlds of cellulose and rubbers.
It is a challenge to blend microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) with hydrophobic, i.e. water-repellent, rubbers. © Empa / Daetwyler Schweiz AG
It is a challenge to blend microfibrillated cellulose (MFC) with hydrophobic, i.e. water-repellent, rubbers. © Empa / Daetwyler Schweiz AG