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Space

National Composites Week 2025: Space

Commemorating the theme “Performance With Purpose,” CW has gathered key stories over the last year that exemplify how composites have progressed space exploration and satellite programs.

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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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Construction

National Composites Week 2025: Infrastructure and construction

CW looks back on key stories over the past year that showcase how composites’ structural performance, light weight and other advantages exemplify this year’s NCW theme — “Performance with Purpose” — in infrastructure and construction applications.

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Mass Transit

National Composites Week 2025: Transportation

Commemorating the theme “Performance With Purpose,” CW has gathered key stories over the last year that exemplify how composites have progressed commercial automotive and mass transit. 

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Sensors

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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Defense

National Composites Week 2025: Aviation and AAM

Commemorating the theme “Performance With Purpose,” CW has gathered key stories over the last year that exemplify how composites have progressed aviation, AAM and defense.

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Work In Progress

Ultrasonic welding for in-space manufacturing of CFRTP

Agile Ultrasonics and NASA trial robotic-compatible carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic ultrasonic welding technology for space structures.

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Sustainability: The smart entry point into composites for investors

Going green or finding methods to resolve EOL composites recycling has quickly given rise to a wave of entrepreneurial activity — one that has piqued the interest of investors globally.

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CAMX

Maximize your experience: CAMX 2025 exhibit previews, Part 1

This list of 90+ exhibitor previews solicited by CW offers a glimpse into the various technologies, emerging trends and solutions attendees should look for on the CAMX show floor.

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Economics

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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Infusion

Ceramic matrix composites: Faster, cheaper, higher temperature

New players proliferate, increasing CMC materials and manufacturing capacity, novel processes and automation to meet demand for higher part volumes and performance.

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Wind/Energy

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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