Jeff Sloan

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

Automotive

JEC World 2018 preview: TenCate Advanced Composites

TenCate Advanced Composites is highlighting its latest developments in composite material technologies for aerospace and high-performance industrial markets.

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Epoxies

JEC World 2018 preview: Teijin

The Teijin Group is celebrating a century of materials development since its founding in 1918 and presenting several composite and material solutions.

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Aerospace

JEC World 2018 preview: Solvay

Solvay (Hall 5, L42) is featuring composite materials and specialty polymers through several applications, including resin infusion for aerospace primary structures, Double Diaphragm Forming (DDF) rapid part manufacture, rapid-cure prepregs and Recyclate Molding Compound (RMC).

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Weaving

JEC World 2018 preview: Sigmatex

Sigmatex (Hall 6, G5) is featuring its range of high-performance carbon fiber textiles, including a new design capability.

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Consumer

JEC World 2018 preview: NTPT

NTPT, specialists in thin ply prepregs, preforms and parts and experts in automation technology, is showcasing a range of thin ply solutions, with particular focus on tubes, blocks and structural components.

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Wind/Energy

JEC World 2018 preview: KraussMaffei

KraussMaffei (Hall 6, F61) is featuring several composites manufacturing technologies, covering wet molding, pultrusion, long fiber injection and overmolding. 

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Marine

JEC World 2018 preview: Hexcel

Hexcel (Hall 5, J41) is featuring products for customer applications in aerospace, automotive, wind energy and marine markets.

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Aerospace

JEC World 2018 preview: Haydale

Haydale (Hall 6, S64) is demonstrating applications of its lightweight graphene-enhanced prepregs, which are said to offer significant weight reduction and improved structural performance.

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Molds/Tools

Airtech triaxial fabrics target composite molds

Airtech Advanced Materials Group (Huntington Beach, CA, US) has introduced TMGC-TX, triaxial carbon fiber fabrics developed for the manufacture of composite molds made with Airtech Toolfusion resins.

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PEEK

Techsil acrylate-based adhesive cures via light

Distributor Techsil (Bidford-on-Avon, UK) has introduced a new light-curing adhesive called Vitralit UV 4802, for bonding high-temperature-resistant thermoplastics such as PEEK with other non-compatible materials. 

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Automotive

3A Composites' core material targets automotive

3A Composites Core Materials (Sins, Switzerland) has introduced a new structural AIREX foam core platform aimed at lightweight, high-volume automotive applications that is capable of being processed in high-temperature, high-pressure, short-cycle production methods.

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Curing

Composites give shape to new passenger bus

The VDL Bus & Coach Citea bus features composite structures fabricated using a vacuum expansion process (VEX) with specially formulated foaming resin compounds supplied by BÜFA Composite Systems.

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