Recycling
National Composites Centre wild water champion spearheads project for U.K.’s first sustainable kayak
A wild water kayak, made from composite materials and manufactured using Recyclamine technology, presents new solutions for sustainability and a challenge for graduate engineering team.
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Italian startup, Advanced Composites Solutions develop portable solar panel via recovered carbon fiber
Origami-inspired panel from Levante and ACS upcycles supercar scrap, solves energy accessibility for off-the-grid travelers.
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Lanxess adds new sustainable product variants to Tepex composites range
Novel composite matrices and fiber reinforcement based on green materials make up these Tepex product variants.
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Swancor launches recyclable thermosetting epoxy resin
When used with composite reinforcements, EzCiclo can be recycled and degraded via the company’s CleaVER recycling technology with waste elimination and a final fiber with equivalent virgin fiber mechanical performance.
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National Composites Centre supports marine industry in bid to tackle composites recycling challenge
The Blue Composites Project, made up of U.K. companies, institutes and organizations, seeks to address key environmental challenges, and will lead to the creation a large-scale GRP FRP recycling and reuse facility.
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Avient expands long fiber composites portfolio using recycled content
Avient announces new long fiber-reinforced composites formulated with post-industrial recycled resin content, for applications including office furnishings and outdoor adventure gear.
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New Zealand launches Composites Circular Economy program
Collaborative working group aims to develop new capabilities for Aotearoa, New Zealand, composites manufacturers to develop environmentally friendly products via several recycling initiatives leading up to 2030.
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JEC World 2022, Part 2: Recycling, natural fibers and additive manufacturing
CW associate editor Hannah Mason recaps several technologies seen on display at JEC World 2022, including new developments from Bcomp, Massivit 3D, Gen 2 Carbon and more.
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Iberdrola, FCC Ámbito launches EnergyLOOP for wind turbine blade recycling
Industrial-scale blade recycling plant setup in Navarre, Spain is to enable the energy transition by recovering composite wind turbine blade components and considering their reuse.
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Moving toward next-generation wind blade recycling
Suppliers, fabricators and OEMs across the composite wind blade supply chain ramp up existing technologies, develop better reclamation methods and design more recyclable wind blades.
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