“We believe that recycling should be an important consideration for designing new parts in composites,” said Fons Harbers, Marketing and Sales Director of Aliancys. “With the increased market activities for processing composite regrind into cement, we believe that this will create excellent conditions for industry growth.”
According to Aliancys, glass filled composite regrind can be used up to levels of 75 percent of raw material weight in the process. The process can contribute significantly to the reduction of eco-footprint and CO2 emissions.
Aliancys says two companies in Europe already actively use the process of converting glass reinforced composite components into regrind at a large scale. Neowa is collecting parts from Northern Germany and Denmark in its operation near Bremen, Germany, and combining the composite regrind with plastic and paper waste stream. The company supplies the resulting mix to the nearby Holcim plant in Lägersdorf, Germany. In 2016, Moerdijk, Netherlands-based Demacq Recycling International started operations, collecting composite components from a wide variety of sources in the Netherlands and Belgium. The company is planning to scale up in 2017 and will use the cement manufacturing route as a primary outlet.
