Only a small fraction of the waste generated by use and manufacturing of carbon-based composites is currently reused. However, due to European Union (EU) regulations and limited amount of landfilling, the industry is forced to consider recycling solutions already during the manufacturing process. The following work is devoted to the development of a technique for manufacture of novel engineering materials from recycled carbon fibres and thermoplastic matrix. Fibre preforms are manufactured employing a papermaking technique for dispersing the carbon fibres. The polypropylene (PP) matrix was reprocessed into a film. The carbon fibre preforms and PP films were stacked and composite materials were subsequently manufactured by press forming and evaluated.