US Patent Issued to Arkema France on June 17 for "Process for joint recycling of composite items based on a thermoplastic polymer matrix" (French Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,343, issued on June 17, was assigned to Arkema France (Puteaux, France).

"Process for joint recycling of composite items based on a thermoplastic polymer matrix" was invented by Jean-Luc Dubois (Colombes, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for recycling a first article to be recycled including a composite material based on a fibrous reinforcer and a thermoplastic, preferably (meth)acrylic, polymer matrix, wherein the recycling process includes the following steps: introduction of the first article into a system suitable for the recycling of thermoplastic polymer, introduction, into the system suitable for the recycling o...