Commercial processes for recycling the carbon fibre from a composite are emerging rapidly, but there are two key problems that need solving:
• How to process the recycled carbon fibre to produce new products that can give the very best structural properties.
• How to improve on the existing recycling processes to recover useful products from the polymer resin.
These two issues are to be the focus of the new UK AFRECAR project led by the University of Nottingham.

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