Boeing engineers are hoping to increase their use of recycled composite scraps in their planes to reduce their carbon footprint and costs. The airplane maker said they want to tap the technology for use in the non-flight-critical parts of the planes they manufacture.
Boeing has partnered with Materials Innovation Technology of Lake City, South Carolina, and Coseley, UK-based ELG-Carbon Fibre to use a process called pyrolysis. Here, heat removes the resin from shredded composite material to produce the recycled carbon fibre, which requires only 5 per cent of the energy used to produce virgin carbon fibre.
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