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Fairmat wants to give a second life to composite materials

2021-10-24T20:55:21.408Z


These materials are light, flexible and resistant but very difficult to recycle. Created in November 2020, the deep tech Fairmat is entering the composite material waste recycling market. Massively used by aeronautics (fuselage), automobiles (bodies and hydrogen tanks), wind turbine manufacturers (blades) or even leisure industries (toys, bicycle frames, etc.), these materials made up of carbon woven with special plastics are light, flexible and resistant but very difficult to


Created in November 2020, the deep tech Fairmat is entering the composite material waste recycling market.

Massively used by aeronautics (fuselage), automobiles (bodies and hydrogen tanks), wind turbine manufacturers (blades) or even leisure industries (toys, bicycle frames, etc.), these materials made up of carbon woven with special plastics are light, flexible and resistant but very difficult to recycle.

In 90% of cases, composites at the end of their life are buried, burned or melted with a lot of chemicals.

It is expensive and polluting.

The carbon footprint of composites is bad,

”explains Benjamin Saada, CEO and founder of the young company.

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However, the demand for composites has increased on average by 10% per year in the world since 2010. It is set to grow further because the industry

"puts carbon everywhere"

.

Which, at the end of the chain, promises mountains of composites to be treated at the end of their life.

This waste represents

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Source: lefigaro

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