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It's Just String & Glue. This is a newsletter about composites, the strings, the glues, and the business.


Update on REFRESH Project – New LCA Study on Wind Turbine Blades
#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
3 days ago6 min read


Revisiting an ICCM Paper – Continuous Carbon Fiber Recycling at NCCUK
#composites, #sustainability, #carbonfiber, #recycling, #fibers, #resins I mentioned this work in my post just after the ICCM conference...
Oct 85 min read


Investors are Interested and Taking Notice of the Recycled Composites Business
#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #recycledfiber, #recycledresin I have talked in this space about composites sustainability,...
Sep 306 min read


Recycled Carbon Fiber Use in the Clean and Renewable Energy Business
#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #carbonfiber, #renewableenergy I saw an announcement in Composites World that was repeated in...
Sep 247 min read


There’s a New Entrant in the Pyrolysis/Thermolysis Business
#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibers, #resins I read this week both in Composites World and in JEC...
Sep 176 min read


Recyclable Wind Turbine Blades have Arrived
#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibers, #resins I saw articles this week in two of the industry...
Sep 106 min read


Methanolysis – A Solution for Polyester Waste that Might Work with Composites
#composites, #sustainability, #recycledplastic, #methanolysis, #resins I saw an interesting post this week from an unlikely source that...
Sep 35 min read


The International Conference on Composite Materials – And What’s Coming Soon
#composites, #sustainability, #energyefficiency, #renewableenergy, #fibers, #resins I gave my paper at the International Conference on...
Aug 137 min read


A New Entrant in the Recycled Carbon Fiber Scrap Business – Thermoplastic 3D Printing
#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #carbonfiber, #thermoplastics, #recycledfiber There seem to be more new entrants into the use...
Aug 57 min read


Is this the Answer? Fully Bio-Based Completely Recyclable Composites
#composites, #sustainability, #biocmoposites, #lactate, #plantfibers, #bioresins A really interesting article popped up in a feed that I...
Jul 298 min read


Some Encouraging News in Carbon Fiber Composites Recycling – and a Few Other Things
#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #aceticacid, #NREL, #fibers, #resins I saw something really interesting that was just reported...
Jul 238 min read


Composites Recycling in France Goes Full AI
#composites, #sustainability, #AI, #recycling, #carbonfiber I saw a very interesting news article this week about Fairmat, a French...
Jul 87 min read


Some Recycling Updates for the Composites Industry – Wind Turbine Blades
#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #fibers, #resins, #windenergy This week I thought I would give everyone some updates in the...
Jun 175 min read


Fully Plant-Based Epoxy Resins - Are They Going Commercial?
#composites, #sustainability, #plantbased, #rbioresin, #resins One of the things that I wrote about in the book that I have coming out is...
Jun 26 min read


My Reflections on SAMPE 2025 Indianapolis
#composites, #sustainability, #carbonfiber, #SAMPE2025, #compositesindustry As promised with my last post, I was at SAMPE in Indianapolis...
May 286 min read


An Update on Carbon Fiber Recycling – Continuous Fibers No Less
#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #recycledfiber, #carbonfiber I have talked about how difficult it is to recycle composites –...
Apr 287 min read


Hodgepodge of Recycled and Renewable Composites Applications
#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #recycledfiber, #plantbased, #biocomposite This week is going to be sort of a hodgepodge of...
Apr 217 min read


Cellulose as the New Plastic – Can it Help with the Microplastics Problem?
#composites, #sustainability, #cellulose, #plastic, #biodegradable, #microplastics, #ocean I came across a really interesting article in...
Apr 149 min read


Recycled Thermoplastics and Recycled Fibers – a Pretty Good Mix
#composites, #sustainability, #thermoplastics, #recycledfibers, #recycledresin I saw an article in Composites World this week that I...
Mar 317 min read


Some Good News on the Recycling Front and Other Updates
#composites, #sustainability, #recycling, #fibers, #resins I heard about this a few days before it was announced at JEC World in Paris. ...
Mar 177 min read

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