Grace Nehls

Grace Nehls Senior Managing Editor

Italy-based Belotti SpA launches Belotti America

Belotti America, located in Irving, Texas, marks the intention of enhancing Belotti SpA’s presence, while supporting and growing its customer base in North America.

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Charger Investment Partners acquires Advanced Composite Products and Technology, Inc.

Partnering with Charger will further accelerate ACPT’s leadership position in the composites space.

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401 Tech Bridge announces winners of first Materials Innovation Challenge

Funding will enable innovators at Canapitsit Customs LLC, Nautilus Defense and TxV Aerospace Composites to connect to academic resources including research, validation and testing.

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Defense

NCC, Dstl facilitate R&D program for combat aircraft composite structures

The partnership invites organizations to pitch their most innovative ideas and capabilities to influence the direction of the ADCoSCA research program. 

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Thermoplastics

Dieffenbacher D-LFT line offers increased application, throughput flexibility

Efficiency, flexibility and increased performance are enabled by larger extruder pairs specially designed for the use of different thermoplastic materials. 

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Defense

Luna Innovations, Lockheed Martin extend partnership

The $6.2 million deal will extend the development of new optical measurement products for the F-35 aircraft fleet. 

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Sustainability

CoreLite signs agreement for balsa wood supply

Balsa wood plantations will be planted and harvested throughout the Los Rios Province over a five-year period, bringing technological development, jobs and restoration of the ecosystem.

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Wind/Energy

Vestas, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries finalize offshore business partnership agreement

The agreement’s approval will lead to the acceleration of integrating Vestas and MHI Vestas Offshore Wind, with an aim for completion by Feb. 1, 2021.

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Carbon Fibers

Airbus qualifies Europe's first 5-meter deployable reflector for radar satellites

The unfurlable, parabolic, composite reflector offers significant advantages in satellite deployment and marks Airbus’s entry into the market for cost-effective and small radar missions and constellations. 

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FACC begins EHang 216 flight tests

The successful autonomous aerial vehicle flight test earns an experimental flight permit offered by Austrian aviation authorities for future flight test execution.

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Fabrics/Preforms

Hexcel, Safran expand contract for composite materials in commercial aerospace programs

Long-term supplier contract amended to include Hexcel’s HexTow IM7 for the GE9X engine, as well as core, adhesives, prepregs and fabrics for additional aerospace applications.

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Pressure Vessels

Maine, U.K. sign agreement to advance offshore wind cooperation

The commitment outlines strengthening offshore wind and green hydrogen supply chains via clean, innovative technologies to meet ambitious carbon neutrality goals and promote and foster sustainable growth.  

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