Grace Nehls

Grace Nehls Senior Managing Editor

Fastening

Lightweight, load-bearing fasteners enhance composites assembly

CAMX 2025: Perlane presents fastening solutions like Optisert and Onsert, and services that have supported composites manufacturers and OEMs for more than 40 years.

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CAMX

Material solutions reduce critical weight, address challenges for aircraft development

CAMX 2025: Greene Tweed highlights lightweight composite innovations such as Xycomp DLF for aerospace and advanced air mobility.

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Thermoplastics

Cygnet Texkimp relaunches customer slitting trials at UK Innovation Centre

A production-scale prepreg tape slitting system featuring SAHM winding technology is available for thermoset, thermoplastic and ceramic tape trialing following an Asia contract win.

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Pressure Vessels

AMSL Aero secures $3 million to progress Australian LH2 aviation

Project goals include designing LH2 refueling systems, validating power distribution and fuel measurement in flight, and gathering evidence to support future national regulatory frameworks.

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Automotive

ISCC Plus validates Teijin Aramid’s use of alternative feedstocks in Twaron fiber production

The certification ensures that Twaron-based tire components can be produced with bio-based and recycled feedstocks while maintaining high performance standards.

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Recycling

DITF launches €4.2 million recycling projects to advance fiber, textile circular economies

The initiatives focus on creating industrial-scale processes for recycled high-performance fibers and transforming textile waste into high-quality yarns.

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Pressure Vessels

Hexagon Agility lands major CNG orders in Mexico and Jordan to advance clean energy transition

Deployments will supply onboard CNG fuel systems for 100 Cummins X15N-powered trucks in Mexico’s largest fleet and deliver ADR X-Store Mobile Pipeline modules to Jordan’s Watani in deals set to begin delivery in Q3 2025.

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CAMX

Composite consumables target surface improvements, infusion and RTM processes

CAMX 2025: Global technical textiles company Freudenberg Materials presents its portfolio of surfacing veils and Enka Solutions 3D polymeric filament structures used in flow media and spacers.

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Trelleborg invests in Innovation Center expansion, remodel

An additional purpose-built space in Delano, Minnesota, by early 2027 adds a visitor center, Swiss machining, injection molding and increased space for automation.

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Defense

Mako, PTM&W Industries launch HyperCure composite systems

The Mako resin and adhesive system, paired with PTM&W’s comprehensive materials portfolio, deliver speed, strength and full U.S. supply chain compliance for composite UAS manufacturers.

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Carbon Fibers

SGL Carbon reports lower sales amid weak markets, early gains from Carbon Fibers restructuring

SGL Carbon’s half-year 2025 results show a significant drop in sales, driven mainly by weaker semiconductor demand and heightened global trade tensions impacting key markets.

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Trends

Global research teams propose standards for structural power composites

Researchers have published a set of characterization and reporting protocols to accelerate the industrial adoption of SPCs, which combine structural strength with energy storage capabilities.

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