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Sustainability

SPE ACCE report

Automotive composites still on the horizon — are they getting closer?

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Marine

IBEX 2014 report

A new home port in Florida and fair economic winds propel this boatbuilders’ convention to its best exhibitor/attendee turnout in years.

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Medical

CAMX 2014 show report

Bigger, better and more inclusive than any previous U.S. composites trade event, the inaugural show turns North American eyes forward to the future.

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Sustainability

Automotive consortium aims to boost composites data management

Granta Design's automotive consortium hopes to help automakers and automotive suppliers gather, organize and manage manufacturing and materials data to develop best-practice standards.

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Pressure vessels for alternative fuels, 2014-2023

Lower fuel costs and escalating emissions standards are driving a 10 percent annual growth in alternative fuel pressure vessel sales.

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Weaving

Recycled carbon fiber update: Closing the CFRP lifecycle loop

Commercial production of recycled carbon fiber currently outpaces applications for it, but materials characterization and new technology demonstrations promise to close the gap.

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Sustainability

Buoyant buildings: Modular design relies on cored composites

Arquitectura en el Agua’s (AEEA, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands) architects and engineers convert for metal to composites for their floating modular structures for marinas, harbors, restaurants, hotels and leisure centers.

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Automotive

Aerospace and automotive: Convergence on the horizon?

Guest columnist and composites industry consultant Dale Brosius reviews his own history with composites to support his contention that the once very different worlds of aerospace and automobile manufacture are not, as far as composites are concerned, so different anymore.

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Editorial

Goodbye CT, hello CW

Composites Technology magazine's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan waves a fond farewell to CT and its sister publication, High-Performance Composites, after 20 and 22 years, respectively, and introduces their replacement, ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ magazine.

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Graphene

Transparent composites

What does Apple see that might provide opportunity for future composites?

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Aerospace

NASA looking for new core half the areal weight of honeycomb and foam

Two $550K grants to be awarded for new lightweight cores research. Applications due by Dec. 16, 2014.

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Adhesives

Graphene-toughened composites

Are we getting closer to commercialized, and functional, nanotechnology?

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