Bio-Metal is Stronger and Lighter than Titanium with 50% Green Resin
The Skydio drone's bio-metal camera mount. A development challenge has been increasing the amount of renewable material that can be blended into the resin for Bio-Metal because the renewable resin has different characteristics from the traditional petroleum-based resin. “What we have seen is that this steady progress upward has gotten to a place where it can be a meaningful portion,” explained Arris Composites CEO Ethan Escowitz. “The challenge with most biomaterials, any time you time to drive it too high, you take a performance hit that customers won’t use.” Escowitz described an ...
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