Creating Sustainable Alternatives for Consumer Goods Materials
Featherfiber®️ has created a proven sustainable process for converting poultry processing waste into
Eco-consumer products
Airplanes Made From Feathers??? Yup!
Innovative Applications
Currently there are approximately 20 Billion pounds of wet feathers generated from US-based poultry processing plants annually; this amount increasing each year with the increase in consumption of poultry meat, and four times that amount being generated worldwide. Typically, in the US, this bio-waste is being processed into a 'Low Nutritional Value' animal feed ingredient, and unfortunately in many other countries is simply being thrown into landfills, creating serious ecological challenges.
Featherfiber Corporation takes those poultry feathers and transforms them into clean, unique and extremely useful fiber material products, namely: Featherfiber, Feather-wool, Carbonized Featherfiber and Feather-wool, plus High Molecular Weight Liquid Poultry Keratin (HMW-LPK), for applications ranging from composite materials for construction, automotive, marine, aircraft manufacturing, military, textiles, and renewable energy to a number of applications in cosmetic, hair care and pharmaceutical markets.
Feathers Are Not Total Material Lightweights
Featherfiber® Basic Properties
STRONG In its natural state, Featherfiber® strength and stiffness values compare to cotton or nylon. When carbonized, its strength can increase up to 25 times that of cotton or nylon.
EXTREMELY LIGHTWEIGHT Featherfibers are considerably
lighter than agricultural fibers - lighter than synthetic fibers - and less than half the weight of glass fibers.
SMALL DIAMETER Featherfibers are naturally and uniformly small in diameter, only 5 - 6 micron.
CHEMICALLY COMPATIBLE WITH SYNTHETIC POLYMERS
Because nature has provided Featherfiber® with such a unique
structural design, superior bonding with synthetic polymers is easily accomplished.
ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY Featherfiber’s are composed
entirely of the pure structural protein keratin.
Featherfiber featured on Discovery Channel
The interest in Featherfiber® to date has been enormous, from governments, industry, universities, scientists, news media, and individuals around the world.
Featherfiber® Corporation’s full-scale, focused marketing efforts will begin when the pilot plant is equipped to supply suitable quantities of material in the various forms already being requested by targeted industries.