Submitted on Mon 27 Jul 2020
ELG Carbon Fibre and Aerocircular N.V, Ostend-Bruges, Belgium, join forces to establish a closed-loop recycling scheme for end-of-life aircraft CFRP waste streams. The companies have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to demonstrate their mutual...
Submitted on Tue 26 May 2020
WindEurope, the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic) and the European Composites Industry Association (EuCIA) present their recommendations for the recycling of wind turbine blades in their new report ‘Accelerating Wind Turbine Blade Circularity’.
Today around...
Submitted on Wed 27 Nov 2019
At the 2019 Advanced Engineering Show, Composites UK held a discussion panel on the show floor, covering the topic of ‘Composites in the Circular Economy’ which is now available to view on the Association’s You...
Submitted on Wed 7 Aug 2019
ReDisCoveR is a High Value Manufacturing Catapult (HVMC) Large Transformational Project (LTP) looking to combine the expertise of the HVMC centres to work towards building a community around the major challenges faced by composites at...
Submitted on Thu 4 Jul 2019
EUCIA, Cefic (European Chemical Industry Council) and WindEurope (European Association for wind energy) have created a cross-sector platform to advance novel approaches to the recycling of wind turbine blades.
In 2018 wind energy supplied 14%...
Submitted on Mon 21 Jan 2019
One of the most respected and successful names in motorsport is working with lightweighting and materials researchers at the AMRC to advance its processes for manufacturing recyclable composite components that extend useful lifetimes and reduce...
Submitted on Thu 6 Sep 2018
Composites UK, Scott Bader and Renuables, with funding support from the National Composites Centre and Innovate UK, have collaborated on a new report detailing the best way forward for disposal/recycling of waste fibre reinforced polymer...
Submitted on Mon 3 Sep 2018
The pre-conference workshop for this October's GOCarbonFibre, focusing on recycling and sustainability, will provide attendees with in-depth insights and updates on this important topic and is a must-attend for anyone working within the carbon fibre...
Submitted on Wed 31 Jan 2018
Techlan has researched, developed and patented an innovative process to remove contamination from high value silicon coated paper from the manufacture of resin materials used in the aerospace and the wind energy sectors, which was...
Submitted on Mon 18 Dec 2017
Ten years of research and development has led to a recycling process capable of making a wide range of heavy-duty composite products, in place of tropical hardwood, creosote treated softwood and concrete, using plastic packaging...
