Recycling concepts for composites are gaining importance facing constantly growing production rates in multiple sectors. Today, a high percentage of the carbon fiber waste is generated during production. The unimpregnated share of waste cannot be reused as high-performance non-crimp fabrics, since shape, size and orientation of the patches were changed during the previous production step. The approach presented here shows the direct processing of chopped dry non-crimp fabrics cutting waste to Bulk Molding Compounds. The manufactured BMC materials are able to compete with materials from state-of-the-art Sheet Molding Compounds produced using virgin carbon fibers in terms of mechanical performance.