The Property and Applicability to Auto Industry of Natural Fiber Reinforced Composites

Natural fiber reinforced composites material are used in more and more industries for their low cost, lightweight, and more importantly, the properties of friendship to environment. Environmental friendship is a very significant superiority of natural fiber composites for auto industry. In this paper, the following aspects are reviewed: (1) superiority of natural fiber reinforced composite materials to glass fiber reinforced composite material, especially when they are used in automobile industry; (2) current usage in automobile industry and the prospective in the future; (3) recent developments.