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Natural fibers such as those from sugarcane bagasse may be obtained as industrial waste products. These fibers have recently been investigated as low-cost reinforcements in composites for engineering applications, some of which may require exposure to temperatures above ambient. In the present work, fibers extracted from sugarcane bagasse were used at up to 30 vol.% as reinforcement in polyester-matrix...