{"id":1364,"date":"2022-02-25T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/?p=1364"},"modified":"2025-07-29T19:03:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T23:03:05","slug":"ginder-signs-commercial-license-agreement-for-fiberglass-recycling-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/news\/ginder-signs-commercial-license-agreement-for-fiberglass-recycling-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Ginder Signs Commercial License Agreement for Fiberglass Recycling Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Research Assistant Professor Ryan Ginder has signed a commercial license agreement with the startup company Karmic Composites, Inc. for his technology on fiberglass recycling from composite materials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Ryan-Ginder-sq.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Ginder\" class=\"wp-image-276\" style=\"width:275px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Ryan-Ginder-sq.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Ryan-Ginder-sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tickle.utk.edu\/mae\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/05\/Ryan-Ginder-sq-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ginder has spent the past several years working on this technology with aims to recycle as much glass fiber composites as possible from large-scale recycling of wind turbine blades and other glass fiber reinforced plastics and divert them from landfills. The technology will make a lasting, sustainable impact in the composites industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karmic Composites, Inc. will use Ginder\u2019s technology to achieve their goal of providing a composite recycling solution that serves as a low cost, reliable, domestic supply of fiber glass materials to hedge against ongoing instability in today\u2019s global materials supply chain, thereby providing the market with a real circular economy solution for fiberglass composites. Between increasing consumer demands for sustainability and growing regulations around end-product recyclability, being able to market a composite as made from recycled material, or can now even be recycled, is a clear market differentiator in an industry where virtually everything currently goes to landfills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Ginder has signed a commercial license agreement with Karmic Composites, Inc. for his technology on fiberglass recycling from composite materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,7,6],"tags":[389],"class_list":["post-1364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-news","category-research","tag-ryan-ginder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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