Thursday 28 February 2008

Whats up Doc?


A year a go there were reports of carrot fiber replacing carbon fibre & glass fiber. Everyone laughed & went back to what they were doing. It seems the technology is here & will be staying. After carbon fibre made its way into motorbikes & cars, now the yachting world is seriously considering & may have even developed a "challenger" racer with "CurranTM" - the actual substance derived from the carrot. With the rising prices of carbon fibre & related technologys, two fishing mad doctors from Fife, Scotland found a way of making lighter & stonger rods. The company called "Cellucomp" have come up with a product that is stonger, stiffer, lighter & tougher than the carbon fiber counterparts. The high strength nano level cellulose bio-fibers are already making fishing news & are on sale.

Dr David Hepworth and Dr Eric Whale the inventors (pictured below) don't sell "CurranTM", but work with the suppliers to extract nano-fibers and combined with high tech resins enable tough, durable components to be moulded to whatever shape, degree of stiffness, strength or lightness required through a top secret process. Only two kilos of carrot (90% water) are needed to make your average fishing rod.
As we speak, wfp companys are ringing the happy Mr. Whale (pictured right). Who said "Right now we're extracting cellulose material from the cells, deconstructing them to pieces that are microscopic and bonding it with a special resin in a way that can be moulded together and is more damage resistant than carbon fibre"???

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