Our Industrial Partners 

Composite Recycling proactively partners with key industrial leaders to ensure our outputs integrate seamlessly into existing manufacturing processes – because we see no value in a recycling output with no clear or existing application for reuse.

Our strategic partnerships help us to establish complete, end-to-end networks for the recycling of GFRP into fibres and oil that are reusable for our industrial clients.

Specifically, we have partnerships upstream in the value chain to ensure an ample supply of waste composite materials to recycle.  And, we have done the studies and testing with partners downstream to refine our technology, so that our reclaimed fibre and oil ouputs work well within their existing manufacturing lines, and enable them to produce new, sustainable composites.

As a first example, take the recycling value chain we’ve established in the boat manufacturing sector.

Case Study: Boat Recycling Value Chain

“We are working hard to find solutions.

This will be achieved … thanks to innovations such as the one developed by Composite Recycling.

The opportunities are enormous and will allow the conversion of waste materials into new composites.”

L. Debrievre, Deputy Managing Director APER

This secure supply of waste GFRP is of keen interest to the downstream clients – fibreglass manufacturers and boat builders – who purchase the outputs of the boats we recycle in order to manufacture new sustainable composites – and new boats.

To that end, we have formed a technology partnership to produce fibreglass mat containing reclaimed fibres with the French-based composite manufacturer Chomarat, and to integrate this fibreglass mat into new boat builds with world-leading boat manufacturer Groupe Bénéteau.  This three-way partnership was honored by the marine industry at METSTRADE when the partners received the 2023 Boat Builders Sustainability Project of the Year.

Thanks to this industrial partnership, we have been able to validate the quality and industrial-scale reusability of the reclaimed glass fibres for the marine industry.

“Closing the loop” on boat recycling will become a reality when our first industrial-scale machines are deployed with APER in 2024, giving our clients access to the full value chain, whether they seek waste treatment services, or reclaimed inputs for new manufacturing.

Other Industrial Value Chains

Meanwhile, given the accumulating composite waste crisis and the increasing pressure from regulators to eliminate landfilling and incineration, manufacturers across all major industries are urgently seeking this type of recycling solution.

Thus we are actively engaged in constructing similar end-to-end networks with leading players across all major industries–automotive, aerospace, wind, chemical, and energy, among others–to facilitate the ease of reuse; to secure markets for the recycled content; and to enable industry to continue working with fibreglass as a key input to their manufacturing processes.

Finding an alternative to disposing of composite waste has become “critical to our freedom to operate” in Europe.

Manager of Innovation, $9B global chemical company

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