Satellite dishes are the latest end products being proposed for nonwovens based on recycled carbon fibre composites – employing the same technology that is used to make various components for the BMW i Series electric vehicle programmes.
Speaking at the Composites Engineering exhibition in Birmingham, UK, on November 11th, Martino Lamacchia, sales engineer at Cannon – an Italian-headquartered machinery builder with annual sales of €200 million and 1,000 employees globally – provided details of the €2 million, 50% EU-funded Cresim project, which is developing advanced new processes for manufacturing with recycled carbon fibre (rCF).
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