Nova Carbon Partners With CMP Composites to Recycle Carbon Fiber Production Waste

Updated on June 26, 2026 • 3 min read

Nova Carbon has announced a partnership with CMP Composites to collect and recycle carbon fiber production offcuts, supporting circular manufacturing and creating new applications for recycled composite materials.

The agreement marks an important commercial milestone for Nova Carbon as it expands industrial deployment of its textile-based carbon fiber recycling technology.

Partnership Targets Circular Composite Manufacturing

Under the collaboration, CMP Composites will supply recurring production scrap generated during composite manufacturing to Nova Carbon for recycling.

The partnership aims to:

• Reduce composite manufacturing waste
• Keep carbon fiber materials in circulation
• Lower landfill disposal
• Improve the environmental footprint of composite production

CMP Composites, which has doubled its revenue annually over the past five years, will integrate the recycling program into its manufacturing operations as part of its sustainability strategy.

First Application: Offshore Wind Turbine Blades

The partnership has already produced its first commercial application through the manufacture of small offshore wind turbine blades incorporating Nova Carbon’s recycled and realigned long carbon fibers (rCF).

According to Nova Carbon, this represents a fully industrialized project rather than a laboratory demonstration or prototype, although the end customer has not been disclosed.

The application demonstrates how recycled carbon fibers can be used in renewable energy components while maintaining performance requirements.

Textile-Based Recycling Preserves Fiber Performance

Nova Carbon says its recycling process differs from conventional mechanical recycling methods that often shorten carbon fibers and reduce mechanical properties.

Instead, its textile-based process:

• Preserves fiber length
• Maintains tow structure
• Realigns recycled fibers
• Reconstitutes fibers into engineered technical textiles

The company supplies recycled materials in multiple intermediate formats, including:

• Non-crimp fabrics
• Dry tapes
• Raw fibers

These products are compatible with composite manufacturing processes such as resin infusion, prepreg processing and thermoforming.

Supporting Higher-Value Composite Applications

Nova Carbon believes maintaining long fiber architecture enables recycled carbon materials to move beyond lower-value applications and into structural composite components requiring higher mechanical performance.

The collaboration with CMP Composites provides a recurring industrial feedstock while demonstrating commercial-scale reuse of manufacturing scrap within advanced composites.

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Outlook

As composite production expands across wind energy, aerospace, automotive and industrial markets, manufacturers face increasing pressure to reduce waste and improve material circularity. Partnerships that recover and reuse carbon fiber production scrap could become an important part of future composite supply chains, particularly as regulations and sustainability targets encourage greater use of recycled materials. Technologies capable of preserving fiber length and mechanical performance may help expand recycled carbon fiber into higher-value structural applications beyond traditional secondary products.