EuCIA would like to take this opportunity to thank our members, partners, industry colleagues and the wider composites community for your continued collaboration and support this year.
It’s been a busy and productive year for EuCIA. We’ve welcomed new members, forged new partnerships, and strengthened existing collaborations. Our Sustainability Working Group has been highly active in defining our circularity roadmap and developing an extensive background document to explain the sustainability benefits of composite materials and demonstrate their circularity. We have been collecting case studies of European circularity projects and also participated in an important LCA study showing that cement reprocessing is a sustainable solution for end-of-life composites.
We’ve been actively communicating and promoting our vision for composites circularity through conferences and panel discussions organised by our members and partners, as well as through dedicated publications. We’ve launched initiatives designed to build a supply chain for managing end-of-use composites, and we’ve joined with our members and industry partners to recommend policy amendments to enable this. We are now a partner in three EU-funded projects developing sustainable composites technologies for the future, and these will be joined by a fourth project next year.
Celebrating 65 years
2025 will be a very special year for EuCIA. We’ll be celebrating 65 years of supporting the European composites industry.
From the very beginning sustainability has been at the heart of our initiatives. We will continue to promote the sustainability of composite materials and their essential role in decarbonisation and achieving net-zero targets. We will accelerate our efforts to demonstrate that composites are truly circular materials and promote and support the development of the supply chain to enable their sustainable reuse and recycling. Recognising that this requires cross-sector cooperation and the collaboration of all stakeholders, we will launch a Circular Composites Alliance to strengthen and expand our efforts at EU level.
We invite you to join us! Let’s take the next steps together in our journey towards a sustainable, circular future for our composites industry.
We look forward to meeting you again in 2025!
The EuCIA team
