The collaboration supports Syensqo’s broader circularity goals for composite materials and adds to its series of global recycling initiatives. The partnership aims to ensure that carbon fiber waste from Syensqo’s U.K. operations is processed using Fairmat’s proprietary recycling technology, which recovers material value and converts it into engineered products for high-performance applications.
Gabriel Molina, Sustainable Development Director at Syensqo Composite Materials, emphasized the importance of this initiative: “This new collaboration between Syensqo and Fairmat adds to our other recycling agreements worldwide and is integral to our comprehensive strategy to advance on composite materials’ circularity. We see in Fairmat a mature partner that offers a reliable and sustainable business model. We look forward to seeing where this new partnership takes us.”
Fairmat will apply its established recycling process, which has already been used in previous industry collaborations. Benjamin Saada, Founder and CEO of Fairmat, stated: “We are proud to partner with Syensqo and help them achieve a sustainable outcome for their U.K. waste. Thanks to our proprietary and proven technology we will extract precious value out of their materials to create new engineered materials for high performance applications.”
This initiative builds on Fairmat’s previous recycling partnerships, including a notable agreement with Hexcel to handle carbon-fiber composite waste in the United States. The company continues to expand its presence in the advanced materials recycling sector by offering viable circular economy solutions to industry partners.
Through this agreement, both Syensqo and Fairmat aim to demonstrate that sustainable material management can be aligned with industrial performance. By turning carbon fiber prepreg waste into valuable input for new manufacturing processes, the partnership contributes to reducing material waste and increasing the availability of recycled composite inputs in high-demand sectors.
The cooperation highlights a growing trend among material science companies to focus on sustainable practices, reduce environmental impact, and build long-term resource efficiency into their production chains. As this partnership develops, it is expected to support innovation and sustainability in the supply chains of industries relying on advanced composite materials.
