CAMX 2025 Show Daily: Thursday, Sept. 11
To wrap up another successful CAMX, CW gives a second look at the ACE Award technologies, provide highlights of show floor activity, highlights the overlooked advantages of the final show day and more.
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News
DuPont to divest Kevlar, Nomex business to Arclin
The company is selling its Aramids business for $1.8 billion to the chemical manufacturer in order to streamline the new DuPont portfolio and improves its financial profile.
Read MoreBabcock, Uplift360 to recycle composite parts from Typhoon aircraft
Chemical recycling process will be explored for breaking down and repurposing Typhoon and other defense platforms, forming U.K. defense supply chain resiliency.
Read MoreSABIC composite hybrid battery cover enhances EV safety, efficiency
SABIC collaborated with Engel, Siebenwurt, Forward Engineering, Ensinger and Envalior to develop a thermoplastic composite EV battery cover, combining strong structural performance, flame retardancy and design efficiency.
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Master Bond features non-drop cryogenic epoxy
EP29LPSPND-3 is a two-component, electrically and thermally insulating epoxy compound with a paste consistency that can be used for bonding and sealing applications.
Read MoreWEAV3D launches Flexspec structural thermoforming panels
Flexspec combines the company’s composite lattice with a commercially available heavy-gauge plastic sheet, creating a structural solution that can easily replace sheet metal at less weight.
Read MorePalamatic Process brings powder handling innovations to composites
The company’s bulk material and powder handling solutions are designed to properly and precisely handle resins, fillers, additives and other materials used to produce composites.
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Cutting 100 pounds, certification time for the X-59 nose cone
Swift Engineering used HyperX software to remove 100 pounds from 38-foot graphite/epoxy cored nose cone for X-59 supersonic aircraft.
Read MoreOptimizing a CFRP landing leg demonstrator
MT Aerospace achieves design for manufacturing, integrating multiple elements into one-piece structure using AFP and 3D printed tooling to meet time and budget constraints.
WatchSetting the stage for CAMX 2025
North America’s largest composites trade event is set for Sept. 8-11 in Orlando, Florida. Find out what you need to know before the show.
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KNOWLEDGE CENTERS
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Features and Articles
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Why the last day of a trade show is your secret weapon
While many pack up early, staying through the last day can set your business apart and open doors others miss.
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Post Cure: Bolt-assembly GFRP industrial tank simplifies assembly, airtight anaerobic treatment
Modular GFRP W-tanks fabricated by Toro Equipment simplify the logistics, space and time limitations involved in anaerobic digestive and water treatment containers.
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Fall events chart the course for composites
A busy fall brings industry-leading events and recognition for operations setting new benchmarks for excellence.
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Navigating the show floor: CAMX 2025 exhibit previews, Part 2
Make sure to brush up on the diverse lineup of exhibitors that will be present at CAMX 2025 to build valuable insights, connections and strategies.
Read MoreComposites 101
- Ceramic matrix composites: Faster, cheaper, higher temperature
- Troubleshooting thermoplastic composite stamp forming
- Composites end markets: Automotive (2025)
- Selecting a meter/mix dispensing machine
- Composites end markets: Energy (2025)
- Laser cleaning in composites manufacturing
- Composites end markets: Aviation and advanced air mobility (2025)
- Crashworthiness testing of composites: A building block approach, Part 3
- Plasma moves beyond improved bonding to coatings, multifunctional composites
- Composites end markets: Electronics (2025)
Industry Experts
Composites Fabricating Index continues positive position
Little change is good news for the composites market, which held steady in expansion during the month of July.
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Paris Air Show highlights advanced materials, industry momentum
This year’s international air show offered a glimpse of the rapidly expanding future for composites in aerospace.
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Mechanical testing of ceramic matrix composites
Today’s CMC materials, robust and resistant to high temperatures, provide their own set of challenges when determining their performance through mechanical testing.
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Videos/Podcasts
Episode 52: Chad Duty, IACMI
In this special National Composites Week installment of CW Talks, Chad Duty, CEO of IACMI, the composites institute, discusses the institute’s 10th anniversary, its mission in the industry and rising to meet the challenges and opportunities facing the composites industry today.
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Next-gen fan blades: Hybrid twin RTM, printed sensors, laser shock disassembly
MORPHO project demonstrates blade with 20% faster RTM cure cycle, uses AI-based monitoring for improved maintenance/life cycle management and proves laser shock disassembly for recycling.
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Episode 51: Francesco Ierullo, Exel Composites
Francesco Ierullo, vice president of sales and marketing, Exel Composites discusses the role the composites manufacturing processes of pultrusion and pull-winding are playing in infrastructure and renewable energy applications today.
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Using multidisciplinary simulation, real-time process monitoring to improve composite pressure vessels
Multi-pronged approach closes the loop between design and production of Type 3, 4 and 5 pressure vessels, enabling simulation of as-built composite tanks to improve performance and storage capacity while reducing weight and cost.
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Hybrid composite architecture enables rigid wind propulsion solution for maritime decarbonization
GT Wings’ AirWing leverages aerospace engineering principles combined with hybrid glass and carbon fiber composite construction to deliver up to 30% fuel savings through compact, deck-compatible wind propulsion.
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Precision, proximity and purpose in Swiss composites innovation
In this next Tour de Composites we step into Switzerland, a small European region that, though modest at first glance, is distinctive for its tightly knit and elevated startups ecosystem.
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Prepreg compression molding supports higher-rate propeller manufacturing
To meet increasing UAV market demands, Mejzlik Propellers has added a higher-rate compression molding line to its custom CFRP propeller capabilities.
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Episode 50: Markus Rufer, Scorpius Space Launch Co.
In this episode of CW Talks, CW interviews Scorpius Space Launch Co. CEO Markus Rufer about the company’s all-composite cryogenic pressure vessels and their role in a range of applications, including recent and upcoming lunar lander missions.
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CIRA qualifies CMC structures for the reusable Space Rider
Italian team designs, builds and tests multiple large, complex thermal protection system structures made from patented ISiComp C/C-SiC ceramic matrix composites.
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Episode 49: Yannick Willemin, Catalysium
Yannick Willemin, founder of Catalysium, a new consultancy that specializes in investment trends within the composites industry, discusses the investment side of advanced manufacturing as well as industry trends shaping the composites landscape.
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Episode 48: Richard Apps, Counterpoint Market Intelligence
Counterpoint Market Intelligence will deliver a keynote address at Carbon Fiber Conference 2024, which takes place October 8-10 in Charleston S.C., U.S.
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Episode 47: Celebrating National Composites Week - Interviews with Christopher Mims, Wall Street Journal; Joe Brennan, Joby Aviation
The theme of National Composites Week 2024 is "Composites Reinvent the World" — this episode explores some of the various applications that are reshaping the way we travel and stay connected.
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