# Site: carbonfiberrecycling.com # URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com # Generated: 2026-08-09 03:00:37 # Version: 1.2 # File Type: llms.txt # Total Pages: 31 --- ## Recycling: Protecting Intellectual Property URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/protecting-intellectual-property/ # Recycling: Protecting Intellectual Property Carbon Fiber Recycling's process is designed around protecting our clients. Material recycled with CFR goes through many steps to reduce the size and ensure that your intellectual property is secure. In our process, we can accommodate materials that are 3 feet by 4 feet in any two directions and 7 feet in the third direction. As the material travels through our system, it will eventually be reduced to under one inch in size. Once it reaches its desired length, it is sent through our recycling pyrolysis system, removing all the resin and any other material on the fiber. After this process is completed, all that is left is a dry fluffy unsized carbon fiber ready to be used again in another application. --- ## Recycling: Carbon Fiber Parts URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/carbon-fiber-parts/ # Recycling: Carbon Fiber Parts The automotive industry is under massive pressure to increase the gas mileage for all vehicles. One of the solutions to this problem is being solved by using carbon fiber in lightweight cars to improve gas mileage. In this process, manufacturers will have carbon fiber waste from their production process. CFR can recycle carbon fiber waste material, and that waste can then be used again to produce more great products. The use of carbon fiber and carbon fiber recycling will solve both the gas milage issue and the landfill issue at the same time. --- ## Recycling: Carbon Fiber Production Defects URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/production-defects/ # Recycling: Carbon Fiber Production Defects Making carbon fiber is complicated, and many things can go wrong in the production process. If for some reason there's a defect or something doesn't meet the standards asked for by the client, the material is scrapped and ends up in landfill. Manufacturers try their best to limit defects, but they still happen. CFR helps you avoid landfill because most prepregs and other production waste can be recycled and reused. Many companies have a sustainability pledge to reduce waste and avoid landfills the best they can. CFR allows you to be 100 percent carbon fiber waste-free and achieve that goal. --- ## Recycling: Carbon Fiber Fabric Waste and Bobbins URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/fiber-fabric-waste-and-bobbins/ # Recycling: Carbon Fiber Fabric Waste and Bobbins Our process is designed to accommodate all forms of waste and make your life easier. In the weaving process, you will have waste that has tape and all other contaminants on it. At CFR, we want to make your life easier. We can process all types of contaminants  EXCEPT GLASS FIBER . This will save you time and labor by not going back through your waste stream and preparing it to be recycled. All you need to do is put it in a box and ship it to us. We call this  RECYCLING MADE EASY . --- ## Recycling: Type 3, 4, and 5 Pressure Vessels and Production Waste URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/pressure-vessels/ # Recycling: Type 3, 4, and 5 Pressure Vessels and Production Waste Once pressure vessels have reached the end of their useful life they are typically buried or thrown into the landfill. These tanks can be extremely large, some over 1,000 pounds. They have a thick layer of carbon fiber and are lined with either plastic or aluminum. To recycle them, we first remove the liners, and then use large shredders and grinders to prepare the fiber for the reactor. All the epoxy on the carbon fiber is turned into volatile gas and distilled, leaving just the clean carbon fiber that can be used in multiple applications. Our clean 6mm random length rCF can be use to produce pellets used in the manufacturing of composites, concrete, matting, and to lighten and strengthen products. Companies can purchase large quantities of rCF, which has a much lower price point than virgin carbon fiber without comprising on the strength and lightening qualities of the fiber.... --- ## Recycling: Aerospace Prepreg Materials URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/recycling-aerospace-prepreg-materials/ # Recycling: Aerospace Prepreg Materials Prepreg materials have a limited shelf life before they are unusable. CFR can process and recycle expired cured and uncured prepreg materials. In our process, we recycle every aspect of your prepreg material. It all starts with the packaging that will be separated from the carbon fiber and recycled back into the appropriate markets. A few examples of this process are the cardboard box, and the core will be separated along with the paper and plastic. All these materials will be recycled, and nothing will go to waste. The cured carbon roll fiber will be reduced down to less than one inch in size and sent through our system. This guarantees that your intellectual property is destroyed and your material is ready to be recycled. After our recycling process is over, your prepreg material will become an unsized less than one-inch dry fiber prepared to be used to make another great product. --- ## Why Do Companies Choose CFR's rCF? URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/why-companies-choose-cfr-rcf/ # Why Do Companies Choose CFR's rCF? By Doug Griffin People choose our recycled carbon fiber because it is clean, it is high quality, and it is in an easy format for them to use. Our clients use it in different applications depending on what they are building or manufacturing.  We have received high accolades for our rCF applications in concrete for example. A relatively small amount of rCF can allow concrete to become conductive, allowing runways to heat efficiently and melt snow. In this use case, our fiber meets or exceeds the properties of virgin carbon fiber. This has been verified by third party independent studies. Also rCF in concrete does not corrode, and has better properties than glass fiber. We have had good results in composites as well, and now the price point is lower, as we have scaled our facilities and we are producing high quality low cost rCF at scale. So why do people use our recycled carbon fiber? It is because it works.... --- ## Reinventing Structural Durability with Recycled Carbon Fiber URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/reinventing-structural-durability-with-recycled-carbon-fiber/ # Reinventing Structural Durability with Recycled Carbon Fiber Imagine a world where concrete, an essential building material, becomes dramatically stronger, lighter, and more resistant to environmental wear and tear. What if I told you we’re closer to achieving that than you may think? Welcome to the exciting frontier of recycled carbon fiber-reinforced concrete, a groundbreaking innovation that holds immense potential for transforming the construction industry, as revealed by recent research from the University of Texas. ## Testing Recycled Carbon Fiber Reinforced Concrete According to the UT white paper , carbon fiber-reinforced concrete stands as an attractive alternative for civil infrastructure due to its high strength, light weight, and exceptional resistance to corrosion.... --- ## CFR Client Testimonial: Carbon Fiber Remanufacturing URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/client-testimonial/ # CFR Client Testimonial: Carbon Fiber Remanufacturing "Carbon Fiber Remanufacturing LLC (CFR-KS) since 2011 has been in the business of engineering and producing high performance and competitively priced carbon fiber reinforced nonwoven composite materials which have been carded, cross lapped, and needled. CFR-KS composite formulations utilize either reclaimed Carbon Fiber (rCF) or virgin Carbon Fiber (vCF). Over the past six years, we have worked directly with Carbon Fiber Recycling (CFR-TN) by providing them with CF reclamation testing trials with a wide range of CF reinforced composite waste streams including composite materials and products from aerospace to pressure vessels, both cured parts and uncured and off-spec prepress. The progress CFR-TN has made over these years of development in the resulting quality of the rCF and in cost efficiencies of their technology and system processes has been nothing less than spectacular.... --- ## What's So Special About CFR’s Recycling Facility in Tazewell, TN? URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/cfrs-recycling-facility-in-tazewell/ # What's So Special About CFR’s Recycling Facility in Tazewell, TN? By Doug Griffin We started working on this equipment in 2012, and have finally achieved what we set out to do, which is to develop the capability to recycle all carbon fiber materials on a continuous flow basis, producing high quality rCF at a price point that could revolutionize the carbon fiber recycling industry. We exceeded our goals in our longevity testing, and after successful sea trials, we start full commercial production in January, 2024.  ## High Quality rCF There are two main issues that have plagued the rCF industry. The first issue is removing 100% of the epoxies and resin from the recycled fiber, and the second issue is removing the layer of coke that coats the carbon fiber during the pyrolytic process. CFR’s technology has perfected its reactor and fiber polishing technology to deliver the cleanest rCF in the industry.... --- ## A Commitment to Reducing Landfill URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/reducing-landfill-waste/ # A Commitment to Reducing Landfill The founder of Carbon Fiber Recycling , Doug Griffin started out in the recycling business in Bethel, CT. Doug has always had a strong commitment to recycling and to keep waste out of landfills.  Anything that he came across on worksites and demolitions, he thought about ways to reuse and potentially breakdown into usable materials.  Doug set up a lab at his recycling plant, experiments and built prototypes and small reactors to recycling all the waste that gets thrown into landfills, from asphalt roofing to plastics, even old toilets where crushed to be used in road building materials. It was in his lab, where Doug developed a process to recycle carbon fiber , reducing the glues into usable by products, and develop a continuous flow processing system to produce recycled carbon fiber at low cost and in large quantities.  Doug made several prototypes and worked with chemists and engineers to tweak and test his ideas.... --- ## We Accept Bobbins and Recycle 100% URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/we-accept-bobbins/ # We Accept Bobbins and Recycle 100% When carbon fiber cloth is produced, manufacturers use large bobbins of virgin carbon fiber.  The weaving machines are threaded all at once, with many carbon fiber bobbins.  When one bobbin is finished and needs changing, typically all of the other bobbins are replaced.  That means many unfinished bobbins are headed for landfill. Carbon Fiber Recycling accepts these used bobbins and can recycle them 100%. ### We Can Take All of Your Bobbins! At CFR we will make sure the unused carbon fiber on your expired bobbins is recycled and reenters the market as a raw material for composites and remanufacturing.  We even recycle the tubes. “Carbon Fiber is expensive to manufacture.  It requires a lot of energy.  None of that carbon fiber should be going to landfills, as we can recycle 100% of it.... --- ## How Companies Are Using Our Recycled Carbon Fiber URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/how-companies-are-using-our-recycled-carbon-fiber/ # How Companies Are Using Our Recycled Carbon Fiber Recently Silca, a bike part manufacturer reached out to sample CFR's recycled carbon fiber. CFR's clean random chopped fiber averages 6mm in length and is used to fortify products. Silca was very impressed with their result and are now using CFR's fiber in their manufacturing process. Manufacturers are happy as they can improve the specs of their products at a much lower price point. They are also helping to keep carbon fiber out of landfill. “Carbon fiber has great stiffness to weight properties." -SILCA CEO The banner on Silca's website ## Why CFR's Carbon Fiber? CFR creates its recycled carbon fiber by grinding up race cars, bike frames, aerospace carbon fiber materials, and filtering out all the impurities in the state-of-the-art reactor located in CFR's new recycling facility in Tazewell, TN.  CFR's carbon fiber is at least 95% pure and perfect for many manufacturing applications.... --- ## Carbon Fiber Recycling, LLC Launches Sustainable Milled Recycled Carbon Fiber URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/carbon-fiber-recycling-llc-launches-sustainable-milled-recycled-carbon-fiber/ Carbon Fiber Recycling, LLC Launches Sustainable Milled Recycled Carbon Fiber - https://www.einpresswire.com/article/866289867/carbon-fiber-recycling-llc-launches-sustainable-milled-recycled-carbon-fiber --- ## The potential of rCF in fiber-reinforced concrete URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/the-potential-of-rcf-in-fiber-reinforced-concrete/ A look at how emerging technologies for FRP concrete provide alternatives to traditionally used steel and glass fibers that are more cost-effective and address the sustainability challenge. The potential of rCF in fiber-reinforced concrete | CompositesWorld - https://www.compositesworld.com/articles/the-potential-of-rcf-in-fiber-reinforced-concrete --- ## Portfolio expansion adds to rCF accessibility, applications URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/portfolio-expansion-adds-to-rcf-accessibility-applications/ CAMX 2025: Tennessee-based Carbon Fiber Recycling LLC grows its patented rCF offerings, extracting from post-industrial and EOL dry fiber, prepreg and cured composites. Portfolio expansion adds to rCF accessibility, applications | CompositesWorld - https://www.compositesworld.com/products/portfolio-expansion-adds-to-rcf-accessibility-applications --- ## March 2026, Innovation Insights URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/march-2026-innovation-insights/ Our monthly webinar series “Innovation Insights” continued Monday, March 2, at 12:00 pm ET. IACMI CCO Jason Gibson moderated discussions with IACMI members featuring their latest news about products, services, technology, and innovations. March 2026, Innovation Insights - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLBZouk-FQ4 --- ## CFR: Home URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/ Recycle 100% of your carbon fiber materials ### A greener technology solution turning end of life carbon fiber materials into clean, affordable, recycled carbon fiber. Recycle 100% of your carbon fiber materials ### A greener technology solution turning end of life carbon fiber materials into clean, affordable, recycled carbon fiber. ## Reduced landfill CFR recycles most carbon fiber materials including dry fiber, prepreg, and cured composites. There is no fee to recycle. You improve your carbon footprint, and enhance your brand. ## Reuseable fiber CFR produces clean recycled carbon fiber at a fraction of the cost of virgin fiber. It can be used in many applications, creating the closed loop customers increasingly demand. ## Clean processing CFR’s patented low emissions technology solution uses over 90% less energy than virgin carbon fiber and produces the cleanest recycled carbon fiber in the industry.... --- ## News URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/news/ # CFR News # CFR News --- ## Buy Fiber URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/buy-fiber/ # Buy Recycled Carbon Fiber # Buy Recycled Carbon Fiber ### CFR's patented technology delivers low cost, pristine recycled carbon fiber for all kinds of manufacturing CFR produces clean (independently verified 95% or better) 6mm random length standard modulus with properties comparable with virgin carbon fiber. Order a free sample ### High volume production and state of the art technology Our environmentally friendly technology solution can produce over 3.4 million pounds (1,700 tons) of recycled carbon fiber annually from our Tennessee facility. More about our process ### A low-impact, closed loop recycling solution Companies who provide CFR with their carbon fiber materials and/or buy our recycled carbon enhance their brand value, reduce their carbon footprint and can offer their customers a closed loop recycling solution. Send an inquiry --- ## About CFR URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/about/ # About CFR # About CFR ### CFR started with a dumpster rental business and a quest to find recycling avenues for everything placed in them Programs were set up to recycle easier things like scrap metals and wood wastes. Then focus moved to more difficult items like roofing and plastics. Experiments with pyrolytic processes began in 2012 and included converting plastics to oil, and developing the only pyrolytic process to recycle roofing shingles. ### We found carbon fiber could be economically recycled with continuous flow technology Two pilot reactor systems were built at the dumpster business in Bethel Connecticut, with work on science and mechanical development in spare time. This allowed lab-based testing to prove out the systems, and became the foundation for a commercial scale operation. Carbon Fiber Recycling's first commercial plant was built in Tazewell Tennessee.... --- ## FAQ URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/faq/ # FAQ # FAQ We are often asked why we started Carbon Fiber Recycling (CFR), what is different about our process, and what our partners can expect from working with us. CFR’s Founder, Doug Griffin, explains the important role the company plays in reshaping the carbon fiber industry. #### Why did you start Carbon Fiber Recycling? Humans are amazing creatures, capable of incredible achievements and technological innovations that continuously improve our standard of living, safety, and longevity.  The downside of those great accomplishments is the growing burden on the planet’s resources and the ancillary problems of dealing with ever increasing waste streams that are more damaging, last longer and will ultimately derail progress and endanger the planet if new ways of managing them are not found. The proliferation of high quality carbon fiber composites is a perfect example. Carbon fiber has incredible properties, and its use in myriad products grows rapidly every year.... --- ## Our Team URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/our-team/ # Meet Our Team # Meet Our Team Dedication to the mission is a fundamental attribute of our team. We keep new ideas flowing, and push limits every day to keep CFR on the cutting edge of innovation and progress. We strive to be the best in the industry at solving the challenges of carbon fiber recycling for today and tomorrow . ### Doug Griffin #### Founder Expertise: Physics, pyrolytic processing, mechanical engineering, thinking outside the box, adaptability. Doug Griffin is the Founder of CFR and a Managing Member of the firm. Since starting CFR in 2018, Doug has developed and fine tuned a proven, unique, patented flow process that allows for the continuous, high throughput recycling of all types of carbon fiber materials. He has designed and overseen the building of a state of the art recycling facility in Tazewell, TN expected to begin full scale commercial production in January, 2024.... --- ## Products URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/products/ # Our Products # Our Products 6mm rCF 18mm rCF Pelletized rCF Milled rCF Non woven rCF ### 6mm rCF CFR offers two types of sustainable recycled 6mm carbon fiber products. The primary difference is the bulk density of the material which can be attributed to the amount of fines present. Some downstream applications, such as milling and certain concrete applications, are aided by increased presence of fines, whereas other applications like non-woven or CFRP prefer a reduced number of fines be present. To inquire click here ### 18mm rCF CFR manufactures sustainable recycled 18mm chopped fiber that is well suited for applications that may require longer fibers, such as additives in concrete, non-woven applications, mortar, and asphalt.... --- ## Clients URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/clients/ # Our Clients # Our Clients Our Ideal Clients: Are committed to recycling carbon fiber feedstock and turning it into the greener products of tomorrow. They value consistent quality, reliable capacity and affordability. --- ## Recycle Fiber New URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/what-we-do/ # Recycle Your Carbon Fiber Materials # Recycle Your Carbon Fiber Materials Sample submittal form What is recyclable Lab analysis ### Industries with large carbon fiber material streams now have an economically viable alternative to landfill Carbon Fiber Recycling processes three categories of carbon fiber: dry fiber, prepreg and composites. Our facility in Tazewell, TN has powerful shredders and grinders to precision chop the toughest prepreg and composite materials. Then our reactor liberates carbon fiber from composites and turns all epoxies and glues into usable fuel.  We recycle 100 percent of your carbon fiber materials with no processing fees, and deliver reusable fiber to secondary markets.... --- ## Press Releases URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/press-releases/ # Press Releases --- ## White Papers URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/white-papers/ # White Papers --- ## Technical Data Sheets URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/technical-data-sheets/ # Technical Data Sheets ## Product Specifications GHS Safety Data Sheet (SDS) Technical Product Specifications --- ## Contact URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/contacts/ # Contact CFR # Contact CFR ## How can we help? #### Carbon Fiber Recycling Shipping Address: 161 Giles Industrial Drive Tazewell, TN 37879-5209 +1 (423) 300 3015 For rCF samples and orders: sales@carbonfiberrecycling.com To recycle your carbon fiber: recycle@carbonfiberrecycling.com All other inquiries: info@carbonfiberrecycling.com ## How can we help? #### Carbon Fiber Recycling Shipping Address: 161 Giles Industrial Drive Tazewell, TN 37879-5209 +1 (423) 300 30 15 For rCF samples and orders: sales@carbonfiberrecycling.com To recycle your carbon fiber: recycle@carbonfiberrecycling.com All other inquiries: info@carbonfiberrecycling.com --- ## Resources URL: https://carbonfiberrecycling.com/resources/ # Resources Please click on the boxes below to view technical specifications and relevant documents. To print a document, open the PDF then choose ‘File – Print’ from your browser menu bar or click the print icon. • Technical Data Sheets • CFR Terms and Conditions • Non Disclosure Agreement • Sample Submittal Form ---