Jeff Sloan

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

PEEK

Compression molding mass out of aircraft interiors

Continuous carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic lightweights smoke detector pan and slashes production cycle time.

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Carbon Fibers

Toray makes waves with Zoltek purchase

Toray was already the largest carbon fiber maker in the world, and with Zoltek it not only gets bigger, but expands into new markets.

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Infrastructure

Composite submarine camels win with long-term durability

U.S. Navy wisely opts for more expensive submarine moorings that maximize lifecycle cost efficiency.

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RTM

HPC goes to SPE ACCE

CT Editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan fields initial reports from two CT staffers about the recent — and growing — Society of Plastics Engineers' Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition.

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Automotive

At Composites Europe: A lot of car hoods

As with most composites trades shows and events these days, automotive applications are getting more attention.

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Adhesives

HPC's 20th Anniversary: Thanks to HPC’s charter advertisers

Every trade publication lives and dies by its advertisers, and those who had the gumption to ante up for HPC’s premier issue are listed here and those who are still with us (see page numbers below) are gratefully recognized with the HPC 20th Anniversary Medallion.

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Infrastructure

HPC turns 20

Celebrating two-decades of composites advocacy.

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Editorial

HPC's 20th Anniversary Issue

HPC's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan looks back two decades to HPC's beginnings, on the occasion of its 20th Anniversary Issue.

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Marine

Whither the marine market?

The marine market was hard hit by the recession, and it's coming back slowly, but is the market big enough to return it to its past glory?

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Editorial

Are we ready?

CT's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan reviews activities on the automotive front, as OEMs consider composites to lightweight their vehicles in view of more stringent fuel economy and tailpipe emissions regulations, asking "Are we ready?"

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NDT

Following 787 fire, time to repair carbon fiber fuselage

The fire on board the Ethiopian Airlines 787 presents Boeing with the challenge of a large composite repair project — possibly the largest of its kind.

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Software isolates, identifies porosity-related flaws in tooling from fuselage test data

Software and composites manufacturing data specialist NLign Analytics, a division of Etegent Technologies (Cincinnati, Ohio) helps identify and track product flaws caused by tooling porosity.

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