Mark Lowey

Clean technology initiative aims to turn oil sands bitumen into high-tech carbon fibre

Mark Lowey
January 22, 2020

Alberta Innovates has launched a $15-million international competition to capitalize on the global carbon fibre market, which is projected to reach US$7.8 billion by 2024. Eventually, more than 100,000 barrels of bitumen could be used daily to produce carbon fibre.

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Organizations: Alberta Innovates, InnoTech Alberta, and ResearchAndMarkets
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Topics: Applied Research, Bitumen Beyond Combustion, carbon fibre, Carbon Fibre Grande Challenge, clean technology, Commercialization, Government Funding, and oil sands bitumen

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