Japan puts on its shelf another mobile phone, but it stir the market not for its size or advanced technology but for what it is made of. It uses a polymer composite for its casing, which is crop-derived!
Amid growing awareness of environmental problems such as resource depletion and to replace oil-based plastics for the case, the Foma N701iECO phone uses polylactic acid (PLA) resin reinforced with kenaf fibres. The PLA-kenaf fibre composite has been developed by NEC and Unitika.
It is last year; NEC told PRW.com that it will substitute more than 10% of the oil-based plastics in its electronic products with bioplastics by 2010.
Via: PRW.com
Crop-derived(!) Mobile Phone Casing Composite
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