Jeff Sloan

Jeff Sloan Brand Vice President, ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ & Plastics Technology

CAMX

CAMX 2018 preview: BriskHeat

BriskHeat (Columbus, OH, US), a provider of flexible heating, insulating and temperature control solutions, is emphasizing its news that AeroNed BV is now the authorized location for BriskHeat’s ACR hot bonder calibrations and repair in Europe.

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CAMX

CAMX 2018 preview: HEATCON Composite Systems

HEATCON Composite Systems (Seattle, WA, US) is introducing HCS9400-02 Smart Susceptor technology, which uses indirect inductive heating to help provide thermal uniformity in composite repair operations. 

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CAMX 2018 preview: A&P Technology

A&P Technology (Cincinnati, OH, US) is exhibiting engineered braided fabrics designed to enable cost savings. 

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Sustainability

CAMX 2018 preview: A. Schulman

A. Schulman (Fairlawn, OH, US) is featuring its two newest sheet molding compounds (SMCs), Premi-Glas 7001 and Premi-Glas 3501.

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Defense

Q&A: Michael Del Pero, managing director, FocalPoint Partners

Editor’s note: The highly dynamic nature of the composites industry makes it a strong target for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity from a variety of companies and investors eager to be a part of the industry’s growth.

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IACMI

Knowledge and experience

CW Editor Jeff Sloan reflects on experiential knowledge after a recent IACMI event reception hosting member company interns.

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Infrastructure

Episode 21: Mike Del Pero

Mike Del Pero, managing director at FocalPoint Partners, a middle-market investment banking advisory firm, discusses the business side of the composites industry including growth strategies, mergers and acquisitions and intellectual property protections.

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Autoclave

General Plastics launches ultrahigh-temperature tooling board

General Plastics Mfg. Co. (Tacoma, WA, US) expanded its line of high-temperature tooling board materials with the introduction of LAST-A-FOAM FR-4800, an autoclave-capable, high-density epoxy-urethane foam designed for master plug manufacturing, tool proofing, vacuum form tooling, pattern making, and short-run production tooling applications.

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Aerospace

Q&A: Tom Lemire, TFLemire Consulting

CW Talks: The Composites Podcast, recently spoke to Tom Lemire, currently principal of TFLemire Consulting (Irvine, CA, US) and a longtime veteran of the composites industry. Lemire’s career spans back to the late 1960s, and he eventually did most of his work in the composites industry for carbon fiber suppliers BASF and Toho Tenax (now Teijin).

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Editorial

Looking backward, looking forward

Honoring a friend in composites, and focusing on the leaders of the future.

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Aerospace

Infused wing sheds light on aerocomposites future

In the Irkut MS-21 infused and co-cured wings, the aerocomposites industry gets a glimpse of how out-of-autoclave technologies might be applied to primary aircraft structures.

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NDT

Exel Composites, Ziebel cooperate on oil well sensor

Exel subsidiary Diversified Structural Composites develops pultruded carbon fiber/epoxy rod with integrated sensor for downhole oil and gas drilling.

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