Building in Circles: Composite Recycling Partners with Beneteau and Materials Industry Leaders to Reclaim Boatbuilder’s Production Waste

A mobile thermolysis unit for composites recycling from Swiss company Composite Recycling. Courtesy Composite Recycling.

As part of our Career Connect Washington Maritime Sector ongoing work, we actively track, document, and inform about emerging technologies and trends. Recycling end-of-life composite boats or the production waste from composite boat building has been a subject of interest at IBEX and Professional BoatBuilder during the past decade. As with many emerging materials and processes, we started with experimental projects and proof-of-concept prototypes including the promising potential for composites made from thermoplastic resin to be recycled.

For the most part that meant grinding the clean thermoplastic composite waste into a material that could be included in new composite structures. But the ability to break down the resin at a molecular level allowing for reclamation of fibers and resin separately, remained largely a theoretical possibility with no industrial-scale application…until now. Go to this link to read the full article published by the Professional BoatBuilder Magazine https://www.proboat.com/2025/05/composite-recycling-beneteau-materials-industry-leaders-reclaim-boatbuilders-production-waste/