Customisize

Recycling carbon fibres for stronger composites

CUSTOMISIZE brings a second life to carbon fibres that arrive at their end of life. The project develops new ways to recycle carbon fibres by sizing them to improve mechanical properties of composite materials.

News

CUSTOMISIZE has a twitter acount!

Mar 16, 2021

CUSTOMISIZE has a twitter acount! @customisize It has been created to communicate smaller pieces...

Online progress meeting after one year of execution

Abr 23, 2020

Despite the lock down, the Customisize consortium met virtually to discuss the progress made in...

Nanomaterials for Young People: Leitat collaborates with EscoLab

Oct 22, 2019

Today, a group of 20 high school students from Olot (Catalonia) came to Leitat facilities in...

How to

recycle

carbon

fibres?

The project is organized in four main steps

1

Study of the existing sizing materials

2

Recycling of carbon fibres by steam water thermolysis

3

Application and characterisation of the newly sized fibres

4

Manufacture of composites with the newly sized fibres

CUSTOMISIZE is involving all partners in the production chain: material suppliers, recycling industries, final part manufacturers, as well as the aircraft industry as end users.

More about the project