{"id":31419,"date":"2023-06-14T14:33:56","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/?p=31419"},"modified":"2023-06-14T14:33:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T12:33:56","slug":"recycled-carbon-fibres-for-sports-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/recycled-carbon-fibres-for-sports-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Recycled carbon fibres for Sports Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Implementing a thermoset resin winding process with recycled carbon fibre yarn should help reducing the CO2 emissions for the raw materials by up to 90% compared to virgin fibres. Tubular winded products, as intended to produce in this project, can be used in a wide range of sporting goods, e.g. as bicycle frames, ski poles or hockey sticks.<\/p>\n<p>Winding of recycled discontinuous fibre yarn combines the advantages of the winding process together with the excellent mechanical properties of carbon fibres. In a cost efficient, fast, automated and reproducible process, lightweight products can be manufactured with stiffness and strength close to such products made from virgin fibres.<\/p>\n<p>This Innovation Booster project implemented by V-Carbon will create a starting point for a widespread application of recycled carbon fibres yarn in sporting goods application and other market segments in the future.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31416\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31416\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-31416 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/v-carbon_sample_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/v-carbon_sample_small.jpg 640w, https:\/\/composites-united.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/v-carbon_sample_small-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31416\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sample plate made from recycled carbon fibre yarn for evaluation of mechanical properties.<br \/>\u00a9 V-CARBON GmbH<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Innovation Booster \u00abPlastics for Zero Emission\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three project ideas were selected in the third call of the <a href=\"https:\/\/plastics4zeroemission.ch\/calls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innovation Booster \u00abPlastics for Zero Emission\u00bb<\/a>. The teams will be supported with CHF 25,000 to further develop the solution idea.<\/p>\n<p>Implementation partner of this project is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v-carbon.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">V-CARBON<\/a>, scientific partner is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fhnw.ch\/en\/about-fhnw\/schools\/school-of-engineering\/institutes\/institute-of-polymer-engineering\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of Polymer Engineering of the FHNW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00abPlastics for Zero Emission\u00bb is supported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innosuisse.ch\/inno\/en\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Innosuisse<\/a>, partners of the Innovation Booster are the <a href=\"https:\/\/swissplastics-cluster.ch\/en\/home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Swiss Plastics Cluster<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/kunststoff.swiss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">KUNSTSTOFF.swiss<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Implementing a thermoset resin winding process with recycled carbon fibre yarn should help reducing the CO2 emissions for the raw materials by up to 90% compared to virgin fibres. Tubular winded products, as intended to produce in this project, can be used in a wide range of sporting goods, e.g. as bicycle frames, ski poles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28049,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,171],"tags":[],"main-cat":[144,35],"bildung":[],"forschungs-cat":[234,179],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31421,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419\/revisions\/31421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31419"},{"taxonomy":"maincategory","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/main-cat?post=31419"},{"taxonomy":"bildung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bildung?post=31419"},{"taxonomy":"forschung","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/composites-united.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/forschungs-cat?post=31419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}