India's Carbon Fiber Manufacturing: Growth amidst Activist Concerns

Before the EU's Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism is set to commence in 2026, where it will impose tariffs on India for those goods having high emissions content that are imported externally, the government of India is gearing up to chalk out meticulous strategies to raise our manufacturing units from carbon fibers as if replacing the indispensable role of metals.

The impact of the proposed EU Carbon tax is not merely reactive to the use cases of composites in aerospace, civil engineering, and defense industries. Therefore, it is imperative to address the carbon footprints associated with these materials' manufacturing, processing, and transportation.

Carbon fiber is an acclaimed central material in technical textiles due to its high strength and lightweight. Thus, carbon fiber is mostly used to manufacture fighter planes' domes, unmanned air vehicle frames, civilian planes, car chassis, and fire-resilient buildings.

Carbon fiber's high tensile strength, rigid properties, corrosion resistance, possible electrical conductivity, better thermal and cost performance over a given period, and flexibility in design are some of the features that modern drone technology would value.

Undoubtedly, Indian carbon fibers have not yet been produced, and the country sadly buys them from the USA, France, Japan, and Germany. Manufacturing units in India go in a sound from start-ups like Karhana.io welcome it for the business.