Lineat Composites and Techlan are two innovative Welsh businesses at the forefront of sustainable manufacturing, united by a shared commitment to transforming waste streams into valuable resources.
Lineat is a cleantech start-up creating world’s strongest recycled material from waste carbon fibre. Their patented Aligned Formable Fibre Technology (AFFTTM) process takes chopped carbon fibre waste and uses a hydrojet alignment method to create new highly aligned fibre tapes. The AFFT material retains around 80% of continuous fibre property, at less than 50% of virgin carbon fibre footprint. Moreover, the material exhibits unique benefits in terms of formability, shear strength and vibration dampening behaviour.
Through the adoption of Techlan’s recycled silicone release liner (Re-Liner™), Lineat is further strengthening its environmental credentials while maintaining the high standards of performance required in advanced composites manufacturing.
Techlan is a UK-based specialist in the recycling and repurposing of silicone release liners used throughout the composites, aerospace, automotive and manufacturing sectors. Traditionally, these materials have been difficult to recycle and have often ended up in landfill or energy-from-waste facilities. Techlan has pioneered a circular recycling solution through its patented cleaning process, taking waste rolls of silicone release liner and processing them into Re-Liner™, a high-quality release liner manufactured completely from recycled silicone release liner waste.
By incorporating Re-Liner™ into its operations, Lineat gains access to a proven, sustainable alternative to conventional release liners, helping to reduce carbon emissions, minimise waste generation and support responsible resource management across its supply chain. The product delivers the same functional performance and reliability expected from virgin-material alternatives while contributing to measurable sustainability goals.
The two companies are a natural fit. Lineat has established itself as a leader in sustainable composites technology through its innovative processes that recovers and realign reclaimed carbon fibre, creating high-performance materials with significantly lower environmental impact than traditional carbon fibre products. Similarly, Techlan is driving circularity within the composites sector by recovering and reprocessing release liner waste into valuable new products
Together, the two companies demonstrate how forward-thinking manufacturers can collaborate to close material loops, reduce reliance on virgin resources and accelerate the transition towards a more circular economy. By combining Lineat’s expertise in carbon fibre reuse with Techlan’s pioneering recycling technologies, this partnership showcases the practical and commercial benefits of sustainability-led innovation and reinforces both organisations’ commitment to creating a more resource-efficient future for the manufacturing industry.
Website: www.lineat.co.uk