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


Some Interesting Things Going on with Recycling / Sustainability
#String_and_Glue, #Composites, #Published, #recycling, #sustainability There are two articles I read this week about composites recycling...
Aug 22, 20233 min read


Plant or Biomass Derived Carbon Fiber (PAN-Based)
#String_and_Glue, #Sustainability, #biomass, #sustainablecomposites This week I am going to focus on just one aspect of sustainability of...
Aug 7, 20234 min read


A Bit More About Recycling Composites – So What’s New?
#String_and_Glue, #Composites, #Recycling, #Pyrolysis, #Solvolysis Yes, I’m going to talk a bit more about sustainability of composites...
Jul 10, 20235 min read


Advances and Current Trends in Composites Recycling
JEC World 2023 Was All About Recycling I’m going to turn again to sustainability and recycling of composites. This is because it is not...
Jun 13, 20234 min read


Recycling Fiber is Scaling Up – And that’s Good News
#String_and_Glue Of course, It's a Lamborghini - What else would it be? By now you all know that I am going to put an eye-catching pic at...
May 22, 20234 min read


About Sustainability - What Does it Really Mean?
I’ve written about this topic several times now, so I thought that it was time to provide everyone with a real definition of what...
May 1, 20235 min read


Sustainability and Carbon Fiber
I’m going to talk about sustainability again, only this time I want to focus on carbon fiber. Why do I talk about sustainability in...
Apr 23, 20233 min read


Sustainable Composites
What, exactly, do I mean when I say “sustainable composites”? That is a very good question, because sustainability means different...
Apr 23, 20233 min read


Sustainable by Design
I have windmills in the picture again. While you may think this fairly Don Quixotic of me, it really is not. Wind turbine blades, as I...
Mar 29, 20233 min read


Sustainability and Composite Resins
I’m back at sustainability of composites again, but this week I want to talk about the glue part – resins. Again, there are at least two...
Mar 28, 20233 min read


The Circular Economy and Sustainability
This week I want to delve more deeply into the issue of sustainability of composites and why it is so important to the future of the...
Mar 28, 20234 min read


Sustainable Materials in our Industrial Economy
Two things struck me this week about composites, materials in general, our industrial economy and our warming planet. The first was the...
Mar 28, 20234 min read


Composites: Sustainable by Design
The Idea – From Cradle to Grave Yes, I am going to talk about sustainability again. Mostly because this is a topic I care about deeply,...
Mar 8, 20233 min read

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