Mitsubishi Chemical's pilot facility for carbon fiber recycling

Mitsubishi Chemical's pilot facility for carbon fiber recycling

Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation plans to invest in a facility with an annual production capacity of 3,000 tons of compounded carbon fiber in 2020. The company plans to invest in a facility with an annual production capacity of 3,000 tons of compounded carbon fiber in 2020, which will enable it to increase orders for carbon fiber products in the automobile and other industries by recycling and reusing the fibers within its own group. Shinryo (Yahatanishi-ku, Kitakyushu City), a subsidiary, will build a new commercial facility in Japan to recycle carbon fiber. The facility will be operational in 2009-2010, when demand for carbon fiber is expected to start up in earnest. The amount of investment will be determined in the future, but it is expected to be around 1 billion yen. Photo taken on July 30, 2019, location unknown, credit: Nikkan Kogyo Shimbun / Kyodo News Images

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