Category: BLOG & NEWS

The Danish Minister for Industry, Business and Financial Affairs Morten Bødskov visited Ucomposites’ plant at Bogø, Denmark on August 15th, 2023.

Ucomposites have opened its doors to a brand-new manufacturing facility in Porto and is ready to supply existing and new customers in Southern Europe with environmentally sustainable chopped glass fibers.

Ucomposites will soon open a new manufacturing plant in Northern Portugal. The idea behind the investment is to strengthen Ucomposites’ presence in Southern Europe supplying customers in Portugal, Spain, Italy, France, Turkey and Brazil.

Ucomposites won The Green Award 2021 when the annual award show took place on November 25th, 2021 in Præstø, Denmark arranged by Vordingborg Erhvervsforening. “This is a unique company established on Bogø (Denmark) – a company with the entire world as its market, with a technology and a product that as part of the green…

Sometimes it’s an individual who simply wants to know whether to stop buying plastic straws. (Answer: it doesn’t do much for climate change, but it does help the environment in other ways.) Just as often, though, the question comes from someone working on a larger scale — for example, a chief executive who wants to…

The decarbonization pathways to a net-zero Europe are countless, but not all are cost optimal. McKinsey & Company explores one pathway that could reduce the EU’s emissions 55 percent by 2030 while delivering broad economic benefits. Read the full article here

Wind turbines end up as landfill waste and stays in the ground for hundreds of years. However, a Danish composites company turn the composites waste into valuable new products. See the TV feature here

Ucomposites has been featured on Danish TV as a best-in-class example on how sustainability in the composites industry is driven forward by upcycling pioneer Ucomposites

Even before Davos started, the scene was set for environmental issues to take centre stage. The Global Risk Report 2019 declared that humanity was ‘sleepwalking its way to catastrophe’ as extreme weather, failure to act on climate change, and natural disasters topped the list. Environmental sustainability has never been more important! Read more Read the…

Recycling composites for the automotive industry In 20 years, the composites industry may have its own recycling system, like plastics and metals enjoy today. The lack is one reason composites cannot fully compete with these traditional materials. The world’s annual carbon-fiber consumption stands at 30,000 tons, and recycling has been limited, for technological as well…