ABSTRACT
Continuous glass fibre/polypropylene composite is a material particularly attractive since it can be processed without emission of volatile products and used in applications in which high stiffness and strength are required. The automotive industry plans a number of uses for this class of material and other applications in marine, transportation, sport and other industrial uses are also expected. As a result of this huge potential volume of production, a growing amount of waste material is expected for the next few years. In this study, it was shown that the continuous glass fibre fabric polypropylene composites are thermally stable in strong recycling conditions making them an attractive choice for applications in which high stiffness, strength and recyclability are required. While the use of conventional technologies for recycling of continuous glass fibre fabric polypropylene composites do not permit to obtain composite material showing structural performance this leads to performance equivalent to those observed for the long glass fibre injection moulding grade and 50% of the performance of the compression moulded GMT preform.
