Recycling
All-electric motor boat tests the waters for recycled carbon fiber
RS Sailing aimed to create a fully electric, rigid inflatable boat (RIB) that is produced as sustainably as possible. A few iterations later, the Pulse 63 is ready to hit the water.
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U.K.’s first wind turbine blade recycling pilot project secures funding
The £2 million, three-year project aims to ensure global wind and composites sustainability via commercialization of a novel method of separating glass fiber reinforcements from its resin system.
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Aimplas, industry partners set sights on chemical recycling of composites
The EROS project, with the participation of Aimplas and the Institute of Ceramic Technology (ITC) is working to develop new recycling process to recover and repurpose composite materials from wind and aeronautic industries.
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Boeing ecoDemonstrator tests recycled carbon fiber sidewalls, acoustic upgrades for aeroengines and more
Eight aircraft since 2010 have demonstrated new technologies to reduce noise, improve efficiency and minimize aviation’s environmental footprint, with potential impacts for future wings, interiors, engine nacelles and vertical tail design.
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FAIRMAT startup looks to develop disruptive technologies for recycling carbon fiber
€8.6 million has been raised so far to industrialize a proprietary technology to save 4,000 tons of recycled material annually and repurpose it into value-added products.
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Anmet installs first recycled wind turbine blade-based pedestrian bridge
Polish recycling company Anmet and partner GP Renewables Group aim to repurpose decommissioned composite wind turbine blades for infrastructure and consumer products.
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Aditya Birla Advanced Materials, Vartega develop a recycling value chain for thermoset composites
Cost-effective recycling of epoxy-based thermoset products to be achieved via Recyclamine, which uses novel amine-based curing agents to reuse both reinforcement and matrix across a range of industries and manufacturing processes.
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Lanxess launches renewable, biocomposite material
The material combines natural flax fibers with bio-based polylactic acid, which acts as the matrix, for a material that is 100% recyclable.
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RECONTRAS project validates use of microwaves and laser welding to obtain recyclable composites
Reseachers obtained a reduction in costs and energy consumption through the manufacture of three composite prototypes and confirm the feasibility of recycling and processing the resulting material.
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Siemens Gamesa launches recyclable wind turbine blade
Called RecyclableBlade, the composite blades follows the IntegralBlade manufacturing process but with a new resin specially designed for recycling at the blade’s end of life.
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