TERRE DE LIN, from the seeds to the composites reinforcement fabrics
TERRE DE LIN integrated Biorenforts 3 years ago, today TDL Technique. The main objective of this acquisition is to find new market opportunities for the cooperative and to develop new products for the composites sector.
Having a long technical and customer relationship experience on the composite reinforcements market, TDL Technique knows and controls the specificity of industrial markets such as transports or sports, while TERRE DE LIN secures the procurement in flax fibers and the stability of the fiber quality.
Security of supply and quality control
As the largest cooperative in Europe, TERRE DE LIN is present through its six production sites in Normandy: a large production area brings both a large variety of fiber types, but also helps to secure the production from one year to another. The fibers are stored on each production site and new warehouses have been added recently so as to strengthen the storage capacity.
TDL Technique exploits a dedicated stock of adapted fibers that will be hackled in the Saint-Pierre-le -Viger hackling unit.
The fibers are stored on each production site
Complementary expertise, a vector to improve and control quality
Another major point is complementary know- hows: TDL technique has a full understanding of customer requirements and the quality of the reinforcements is very much linked to that of the slivers produced by hackling.
As for TERRE DE LIN, it has been scutching, hackling, and assembling flax fibers for years for some of its spinning mill textile customers: TERRE DE LIN has a good understanding of the specification to produce the slivers for the composites market, and can adapt its knowledge of hackling and assembling for textile customers to the specificity of composites customer requirements.
Working together on technical issues for composites market is in return a lever to improve the hackling and assembling process in TERRE DE LIN.
Controls at each step: scutching
Controls at each step: hackling
This control of upstream activities by TERRE DE LIN secures the fiber procurement of TDL Technique customers in terms of volume and in terms of quality. In parallel, TDL Technique is a challenging activity to improve the methods and the processes in TERRE DE LIN, which brings improvements in hackling, for the textile business.
In the end, both TERRE DE LIN and TDL TECHNIQUE benefit from this new activity.