#composites, #carbonfiber, #sportsequipment, #winterolympics, #carboncomposites I have been watching the Olympic Games going on in Italy like most of the rest of us.  Sunday a week ago was the men’s Luge competition and thankfully there weren’t any horrible accidents.  That sport is not only exciting it is also nerve racking to watch.  Eighty miles an hour on a little sled barely long enough to hold the slider, going around high banked turns where the smallest mistake could b

#composites, #sustainability, #flaxfiber, #biocomposites, #fibers There appears to be quite a bit of movement in the natural, plant-based fiber business this past week or two.  Two announcements came out in Composites World about companies that are scaling up their flax fiber composite reinforcements business, and another one that I will talk about a bit later about a basalt fiber production facility being built in the Middle East.  New Circular Structures USA Inc. Facility i

#composites, #sustainability, #greenhousegasreduction, #fireproofcomposites, #fibers I saw a couple of interesting tidbits in Composites World this week that piqued my curiosity, so I thought I would dig in a little deeper and write about them and their potential impact on not only sustainability but also the composites business in general.  DEECOM Recycled Fireproof Carbon Composite I’m going to start off with one that intrigued me because of a couple of things.  First, what

#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibers, #resins I received my November Issue of the Composites World magazine (electronically of course) this week and as usual it had a couple of interesting developments in the world of composite materials sustainability, one of which is sort of fun – if you like water sports.  So, I thought I would write about these and a couple of other things that I came across in my information feed about composites.  A

#composites, #sustainability, #windenergy, #recycling, #renewableenergy A few weeks back I wrote a couple of articles, one about this project (REFRESH) and another about a company in Norway (Gjenkraft) that has gotten seed money to build a plant to recycle wind turbine blades using their pyrolysis process.  And of course the day after I wrote the article the REFRESH project posted the results of a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) that they had performed by a consulting company in

#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #carbonfiber, #renewableenergy I saw an announcement in Composites World that was repeated in...

#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibers, #resins I read this week both in Composites World and in JEC...

#composites, #sustainability, #recycledplastic, #methanolysis, #resins I saw an interesting post this week from an unlikely source that...

#composites, #sustainability, #carbonfiber, #microwaves, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy I have written about this topic before, but...

#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibers, #resins I gave my paper at the International Conference on...

#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #aceticacid, #NREL, #fibers, #resins I saw something really interesting that was just reported...

#composites, #sustainability, #AI, #recycling, #carbonfiber I saw a very interesting news article this week about Fairmat, a French...

#composites, #sustainability, #biocomposites, #plantbased, #fibers, #resins You heard me right, both of the major transport aircraft...

#composites, #sustainability, #cellulose, #plastic, #biodegradable, #microplastics, #ocean I came across a really interesting article in...

#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibermanufacture, #resinmanufacture This week I thought I would touch...

#composites, #sustainability, #thermoplastics, #recycledfibers, #recycledresin I saw an article in Composites World this week that I...

#composites, #polyesterresin, #styrene, #phthalicacid, #glycols, #resins This is a continuation of what I talked about last week but...

#composites, #toxicchemicals, #epoxy, #bpa, #epichlorohydrin, #bisphenol-a, #resin As promised, this week I’m going to write about the...

#composites, #microplastics, #foreverchemicals, #environmentaltoxins, #microfibers, #recycledresins I’ve been reading quite a bit about...

#composites, #windpower, #marinecomposites, #carbonfiber, #fiberglass I saw an interesting article in Composites World about a cargo ship...