Sheet molding composite recycling
Journal Article
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· Automotive Engineering
OSTI ID:128783
This article describes how the SMC Automotive Alliance is helping to develop commercial processes to convert sheet molding composite scrap into new raw materials. A projected 200 million pounds of sheet molding composite (SMC) will be used by the auto industry in 1995. The increasing use of SMC in automobiles has prompted the industry to resolve some of the technical challenges involved with recycling the material. The SMC Automotive Alliance, composed of 30 molders and raw materials suppliers, has implemented cooperative research and development programs that have led to the commercialization of processes to recycle and reuse both postindustrial and eventually post-consumer SMC in new automotive applications.
- OSTI ID:
- 128783
- Journal Information:
- Automotive Engineering, Journal Name: Automotive Engineering Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 103; ISSN 0098-2571; ISSN AUEGBB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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