Manufacturing Automotive Components from Sustainable Natural Fiber Composites

Natural Fibers in the Automotive Industry.- Natural Fiber Reinforcement Preparation.- Natural Fiber Composite Fabrication for the Automotive Industry.- Natural Fiber Composite Qualification in the Automotive Industry.- Sustainability Assessment and Recycling of Natural Fiber Composites.- Future Trends in Natural Fiber Composites in the Automotive Industry.

Lobna A. ElSeify is a Teaching and Research Assistant at the Faculty of Engineering and Materials Science at the German University in Cairo (GUC) with four+ years of teaching and research experience. She has obtained her B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in materials engineering from the German University in Cairo. She is currently working on her Ph.D. degree on sustainable natural fiber composites for the automotive industry reinforced with date palm fibers. Her main research interests mostly focus on natural fibers and their composites and was part of the team which developed a novel proprietary long textile fibers from the midribs of date palm, known as PalmFil.
Dr. Mohamad Midani is an Assistant Professor in the Materials Engineering Department, German University Cairo, and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Wilson College of Textiles, North Carolina State University. He is also the managing partner of inTEXive consulting, and Secretary General of the International Associationfor Palm Byproducts. He has long experience in the textile industry, with a focus on technical textiles and composites, with an ongoing research collaboration and consulting to the industry. His research mostly focuses on natural fibers and fiber-reinforced composites, and he is the co-inventor of the long textile fibers from the midribs of date palm (PalmFil). He published more than 30 articles in international journals and conferences in addition to co-editing two books. He is Reviewer to several international journals from different publishers. Dr. Midani has his B.Sc. in mechanical engineering from Ain Shams University (2006), MT in textiles and apparel technology and management (2012), and Ph.D. in fiber and polymer science from the Wilson College of Textiles, NC State University (2016).

Prof. Ayman El-Badawy is a Full Professor and Department Head of the Mechatronics Engineering, and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs of the Faculty of Engineering and Materials Science, German University in Cairo.