Carbon fiber is an awesome and strong material used in manufacturing everything from airplanes to fishing poles. Here's everything we know about it.

Fiber manufacturing is notoriously wasteful and a major part of F1’s carbon footprint. McLaren started trialing recycled fiber on the cockpit branding panels of Lando Norris’s and Oscar ...

The company was founded by Dr. John Garnier in 2012 after retiring from the Idaho National Laboratory (Idaho Falls), one of the U.S. Department of Energy’s national labs known for its nuclear research ...

The global carbon fiber market was worth $5.48 billion in 2024 and is projected to grow to over $17 billion over the next decade.

“Titanic” director James Cameron on Friday blamed the carbon fiber composite construction hull of the doomed OceanGate submersible for its tragic implosion this week.. The material likely led ...

The material is certainly cutting edge, and expensive — carbon fiber accents on a BMW M5, for example, are a $3,000 option — but the process through which it is made is relatively straightforward.

Inside, the Ultra-Lightweight Carbon Fiber tent offers 84 x 50 in (213 x 127 cm) of sleeping area with an included air mattress and anti-condensation mat.

The potential EU ban has raised a significant concern for Japanese carbon-fiber producers as they account for over half the world's market share, according to Nikkei Asia. Toray Industries, one of ...

Natural fiber has seen better acceptance in motorsport, where jagged carbon fiber debris can cut tires, ruining races and potentially causing crashes. Bcomp produced natural fiber bodywork for BMW ...

Goodbye, Carbon Fiber Back in 2019, BMW began working with Bcomp, a clean-technology company that the German automaker owns stake in, to implement the flax-composite in its Formula E cars.

Update, 11:45am EDT, 4/15/2025: The European Parliament has told Motor1 Italia that carbon fiber will be removed from the amendment that would have placed it on the list of unhealthy materials in ...