{"id":350311,"date":"2026-01-17T05:12:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/sourcing-scrapyards-old-jets-new-gold\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T05:12:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T19:12:49","slug":"sourcing-from-scrapyards-how-airbus-is-turning-old-jets-into-new-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=350311","title":{"rendered":"Sourcing From Scrapyards: How Airbus Is Turning Old Jets Into New Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>European aircraft manufacturer <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"58499\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/airbus\/\"  >Airbus<\/a><\/span> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.airbus.com\/en\/newsroom\/stories\/2026-01-recycled-and-ready\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" >giving composites a second life<\/a> through the repurposing of thermoplastic. This technological solution demonstrates Airbus investement in improving a circular economy. A consortium has successfully been recycling thermoplastic <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/composite-fuselages\/\" >composite aircraft parts<\/a>, including partner Toray, which achieved an Innovation Award for the process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A groundbreaking initiative breathes new life into retired aircraft parts, transforming them into valuable resources for popular models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[426,526,898,396,12707,16569,8196,4704],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus","category-airbus-a320neo","category-airbus-a380","category-aircraft","category-composite-materials","category-manufacturers","category-recycling","category-supply-chain"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=350311"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":350431,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350311\/revisions\/350431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=350311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=350311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=350311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}