Composite Recycling and Disposal

Aeronautic/aerospace applications, both military and commercial, are accounting for a large share of the growing composite market in value. However, their share of the market in volume is much smaller. Costs are high when large amounts of carbon fiber reinforcements are used. These high performance composite materials have six properties that give them an edge over traditional materials: longer life cycles due to high fatigue strength, increased corrosion resistance, improved fire resistance, easier design because of functional integration, possibility of complex shapes & lower weight. Increased usage of composites in military and space systems, as well as in commercial aircraft development, is expected to continue far into the foreseeable future.