Hannah Mason

Hannah Mason Technical Editor

Construction

ACMA announces 2020 Infrastructure Day

ACMA’s fifth Infrastructure Day in Feb. 2020 will gather political and composites manufacturing leaders in Washington D.C. to discuss infrastructure legislation.

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Medical

Evonik expands U.S. production capacity for ROHACELL foams

The expansion includes a new production hall and is scheduled for completion in the fourth quarter of 2020.

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Mass Transit

Graphene Council partners with SAE International

The organizations will partner to share information on graphene and transportation advances and challenges, and will present their results at two events next year.

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Planning application submitted for National Manufacturing Institute Scotland

The NMIS will be an industry-led international center of manufacturing expertise led by Scottish leaders and the University of Strathclyde.

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Wind/Energy

Ahlstrom-Munksjö to divest its glass fiber reinforcement business

The company will divest its Mikkeli, Finland glass fiber reinforcement facility to ADCURAM Group in fourth quarter 2019.

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University of Tennessee adds advanced manufacturing certificate

Available in-person or online, the advanced manufacturing program will begin offering classes in January 2020.

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Aerospace

People in Composites: November 2019

Albany Engineered Composites, GKN Aerospace, Michelman and Sirrus Inc. announce new hires in the composites manufacturing industry.

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Pratt & Whitney to open ceramic matrix composites facility

The 60,000-square-foot R&D facility in Carlsbad, Calif., U.S. will focus on the design, development and production of CMCs for aerospace applications.

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Sustainability

Biocomposite of the Year 2019 winners announced

Announced at Nova-Institute’s Biocomposites Conference in Cologne, Germany, the winning entries use natural fiber composites for automotive and consumer goods applications.

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Automotive

Solvay, Penso collaborate on industrialized production of lightweight structures

The FLAVA automotive project has developed composite technologies for creation of a modular, multi-material body-in-white structure for large production volumes.

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Markforged, MSC Software partner on 3D printer simulation tools

Customers will have increased access to MSC’s process simulation, performance modeling and material analysis tools for Markforged 3D printers.  

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Out of Autoclave

Fixed-gantry options for large-scale additive manufacturing

Thermwood’s LSAM MT, the latest model of is large-scale additive manufacturing machine, features a single fixed gantry mounted over a moving table.

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