Recycling carbon fibre.
Recycling carbon fibre.
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With many manufacturers increasing utilising carbon fibre in their products does anyone know how this product is recycled?
Steel , aluminium and plastics are commonly recycled to a greater or lesser extent but what of carbon fibre?
Pete.
Steel , aluminium and plastics are commonly recycled to a greater or lesser extent but what of carbon fibre?
Pete.





RE: Recycling carbon fibre.
Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
RE: Recycling carbon fibre.
Bill
RE: Recycling carbon fibre.
RE: Recycling carbon fibre.
Chopped carbon fibre in roads sounds bad - the fibres cause cancer.
Cheers
Greg Locock
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RE: Recycling carbon fibre.
The only realistic areas I see are:-
Carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastics, and this is already done to a large extent in the moulding shop, but the volume is low, even by carbon fibre standards as most ends up in thermoset based composites.
Waste at the loom and in the spinning process. This is normally chopped and used in short strand applications like reinforcing thermoplastics.
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RE: Recycling carbon fibre.
Greg Locock,
Yes I agree much of what is marketed as carbon fibre is decidedly not.
My question was intended more to find the prevailing thoughts of the state of the market and where it may go in the future given the increasing use of the material.
Pete.