ELG Carbon Fibre receives ISO 14001:2015 accreditation
The company has also compiled a legal register including an environmental policy highlighting its sustainability objectives.

JEC World 2018: The highlights
JEC World is the composites industry’s largest trade show and did not disappoint this year.

JEC World 2018: Highlights
You will read more about what we discovered at JEC World 2018 in the coming weeks and months, but for now this is a quick review of some of the highlights from the world’s largest composites trade show.

ELG Carbon Fibre announces UK expansion
Company will increase capacity of its UK facility to satisfy volume demand.

ELG Carbon Fibre and Sanko Gosei formalize partnership
Recycled carbon fibre market leader ELG Carbon Fibre and Sanko Gosei formalize their commercial partnership after years of technical collaboration.

ELG's new CARBISO product on display in Japan
ELG Carbon Fibre Ltd (Coseley, West Midlands, UK) will be exhibiting for the first time at the Automotive World Show in Tokyo from January 17-19, 2018. The company will introduce its trademarked CARBISO range of recycled carbon fiber products for high volume, automotive applications.

Carbon Fiber 2017 final highlights
Applications and enabling technologies for carbon fiber promise new market penetration – challenges notwithstanding.

ELG Carbon Fibre partners with Land Rover BAR on carbon fiber recycling
ELG will become a technical supplier to the team and will process all carbon fiber manufacturing waste and end-of use parts to recover the high performance carbon fiber they contain.

First-ever automotive seatback using recycled carbon fiber
The Composite Recycling Technology Center, ELG Carbon Fibre Ltd. and IACMI partnered on this project.

Recycling composites on the CW Talks podcast
Frazer Barnes, managing director of ELG Carbon Fibre (Coseley, UK), joins CW Talks: The Composites Podcast to discuss his and his company’s work developing carbon fiber recycling technologies, and the fiber reinforcements that result. 

Episode 7: Frazer Barnes, ELG Carbon Fibre
Frazer Barnes, managing director at ELG Carbon Fibre, discusses the carbon fiber waste stream and the market for recycled materials.

Need for standardization in composites manufacturing
CW Talks is “on” and already proving to be well worth a listen. 

Composite Recycling Technology Center CEO to retire, Chief Operating Officer named CEO
Bob Larsen has served as CEO since March 2016 and will be replaced by COO David Walter.

CRTC and IACMI to develop advanced carbon recycling equipment
Thanks to a new contract with IACMI, the CRTC will pioneer ways to automate processing of carbon prepreg scrap. This technology breakthrough is essential so recycled carbon fiber can be processed in high volumes, says CRTC.

ELG Carbon Fibre open house showcases recycling technology
Carbon fiber recycler ELG Carbon Fibre sheds light on its recycling and manufacturing operation in the UK.

Composites recycling is gaining traction
Although CW’s coverage of composites recycling dates back over a decade, informal statistics still show that only ~2% of composites-related companies are active recyclers. That said, three years since our most recent feature on the subject, there is demonstrably greater interest and activity, and real applications of recycled fiber are growing.

Composites recycling: Gaining traction
Recycling of carbon fiber, glass fiber and — at last — resins, is growing as new players enter the space.