Boeing funds strategic carbon fibre recycling collaboration

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25 Oct 2011 14:09:45.553

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In desert ‘aircraft graveyards’, where retired planes often go when flight service ends, good parts are removed and sold and many materials are recycled. Increasingly popular strong, light carbon fibre composites (or carbon fibre reinforced plastics) were once too difficult to recycle, so went to landfill.

In the past decade, researchers at Nottingham led by Dr Steve Pickering have developed ways to recycle carbon fibre composites. They have worked with Boeing since 2006. Now Boeing plans to invest $1,000,000 per year in a strategic research collaboration – an inclusive partnership in which Boeing will collaborate with Nottingham in all its composites recycling activities.

Sir Roger Bone, President of Boeing UK, launched this major new collaborative investment in carbon fibre recycling research involving Boeing Commercial Airplanes and The University of Nottingham’s Faculty of Engineering when he visited Nottingham on Monday 24 October.

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For more information please contact Dr Stephen Pickering, Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering at The University of Nottingham at stephen.pickering@nottingham.ac.uk; or Matthew Knowles, Communications Director, Boeing UK Ltd, on +44(0) 207340 1900 or at matthew.knowles2@boeing.com.
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