Carbon Fiber Recycling to build plant in Tennessee

Carbon Fiber Recycling Inc., a division of Bethel, Connecticut-based Modern Recovery Systems Inc., is building a carbon fiber recycling facility in Tazewell, Tennessee. The facility reportedly has been designed to allow the company to increase its carbon fiber recycling capacity.

According to an online news item from Composites Manufacturing magazine, the company is taking the equipment it has developed at its Connecticut research facility to the Tennessee plant, which is under construction and is expected to be completed later in 2018. That equipment allows the company to recycle 2,000 tons of carbon fiber per year.

At the company’s Bethel facility, it has tested, built and proven its process on pilot systems and is now ready to construct a commercial sized facility, according to Composites Manufacturing. The company has been taking in discarded carbon fiber materials from a limited number of generators and has a supply of recycled carbon fiber material available for sale, the report indicates.

Carbon Fiber Recycling Inc. executive Tim Spahn, quoted by Composites Manufacturing, says the recycled material can be used in concrete as a way to “electrify” it, resulting in the melting of snow that lands on it.