McLaren Racing recently released their Sustainability Report for 2021 and Bcomp is very pleased to be mentioned on several occasions throughout the report. Our partnership with McLaren has allowed us to have a positive impact in different areas.
The work we did with McLaren Racing on the timing stand and engineers’ island helped them to reduce travelling freight weight by 3450 kg. The new timing stand and engineers’ island are made in a hybrid flax-carbon construction with Bcomp’s ampliTex™ high-performance reinforcements making up the majority share. Replacing the previous carbon fibre components with natural flax fibre composites allowed McLaren Racing to decrease their amount of air freight and reduced their GHG footprint.
Our natural fibre technologies create high-performance alternatives to plastics and carbon fibre that come with viable end-of-life solutions. This allows McLaren Racing to explore new paths in circular design while they also keep working on alternative end-of-life solutions.
“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,” states the McLaren Racing Sustainability Report. Together we have developed Formulas 1’s first natural fibre racing seat. Lando Norris’ new seat uses an optimised layup of ampliTex™ and powerRibs™ flax fibre solutions to replace the conventional carbon fibre layup. The pioneering natural fibre technologies reduce reliance on carbon fibre and single use plastic and lower the CO2 emissions by 85% compared to the seat’s carbon fibre counterpart.
We are excited to see what the future holds and how we can further advance sustainable lightweighting solutions from natural fibres in the course of this successful collaboration.
The full Sustainability Report from McLaren Racing can be found here:
McLaren Racing Sustainability Report 2021
Five key takeaways from the Sustainability Report
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