Materials

Market Outlook

Composites end markets: Electronics (2024)

Increasingly, prototype and production-ready smart devices featuring thermoplastic composite cases and other components provide lightweight, optimized sustainable alternatives to metal.

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Carbon Fibers

Demonstrator project targets circularity solutions in carbon fiber composite sports equipment

The Carbon Fibre Circular Alliance (CFCA) brought together OEMs and technical partners to reclaim short carbon fibers from end-of-life sports equipment, realign into continuous prepreg tapes and remanufacture into new equipment.

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JEC

Automated winding machine supplier forges carbon fiber application growth

JEC World 2024: Custom-designed carbon fiber/epoxy components and automated fiber winding machine offerings will be on display, emphasizing CompoTech’s focus on designing and supplying turnkey composites technologies.   

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Core

Ultra-light honeycomb blocks are engineered for application versatility

JEC World 2024: Schütz Composites introduces Cormaster, its line of aramid paper-based honeycomb materials suitable in many application fields as panels or parts.

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Carbon Fibers

Arris introduces MTO CFRTP bike spokes

Lightweight carbon fiber spoke is designed, engineered and manufactured using Arris’ Additive Molding technology.

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Application

Designing and manufacturing turbine test nacelles

Michigan-based Ground Test Solutions (GTS) shares the design and manufacturing processes involved in building composite nacelle components used in testing jet and helicopter engines.

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Hydrogen Storage

Update: THOR project for industrialized, recyclable thermoplastic composite tanks for hydrogen storage

A look into the tape/liner materials, LATW/recycling processes, design software and new equipment toward commercialization of Type 4.5 tanks.

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Recycling

ORNL develops dynamically crosslinked CFRP, enabling closed-loop recycling 

At laboratory scale, functionalized CFRP thermosets can be “released” via heat or chemicals to reincarnate them back into their starting materials.

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Wind/Energy

Repurposing wind blades as functional community art pieces

Ohio-based Canvus Inc. upcycles fiberglass wind blades, car tires and post-consumer plastics to create outdoor furniture that amplifies sustainability messages in community spaces.

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Eve selects composite seats from Recaro Aircraft for 2026 eVTOL

The delivery, to include 75,000 GFRP seats, marks Recaro’s entry into the AAM market. 

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