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Fall events chart the course for composites
A busy fall brings industry-leading events and recognition for operations setting new benchmarks for excellence.
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National Composites Week 2025: Space
Commemorating the theme “Performance With Purpose,” CW has gathered key stories over the last year that exemplify how composites have progressed space exploration and satellite programs.
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Episode 52: Chad Duty, IACMI
In this special National Composites Week installment of CW Talks, Chad Duty, CEO of IACMI, the composites institute, discusses the institute’s 10th anniversary, its mission in the industry and rising to meet the challenges and opportunities facing the composites industry today.
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National Composites Week 2025: Aviation and AAM
Commemorating the theme “Performance With Purpose,” CW has gathered key stories over the last year that exemplify how composites have progressed aviation, AAM and defense.
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Registration opens for CW Tech Days: High-Temperature Composite Solutions
CW Tech Days: High-Temperature Composite Solutions for Defense and Space Applications will take place Oct. 16, 2025.
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Episode 51: Francesco Ierullo, Exel Composites
Francesco Ierullo, vice president of sales and marketing, Exel Composites discusses the role the composites manufacturing processes of pultrusion and pull-winding are playing in infrastructure and renewable energy applications today.
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Revolutionizing space composites: A new era of satellite materials
A new approach for high volumes of small satellite structures uses low-CTE, low-cost CFRP cellular core, robust single-ply skins and modular panel systems to cut lead time, labor and cost for reflectors, solar arrays and more.
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Paris Air Show highlights advanced materials, industry momentum
This year’s international air show offered a glimpse of the rapidly expanding future for composites in aerospace.
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Performance with purpose: Celebrating National Composites Week 2025
Join the composites community Aug. 25-29, 2025, as we celebrate the power of performance-driven materials. Mark your calendar and help us amplify the message by promoting #CompositesPerformanceWithPurpose.
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SAMPE 2025: Innovation, circularity and connection drive composites forward
Collaboration, workforce development and an ongoing focus on scalability and sustainability took center stage at SAMPE 2025 in Indianapolis.
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Episode 50: Markus Rufer, Scorpius Space Launch Co.
In this episode of CW Talks, CW interviews Scorpius Space Launch Co. CEO Markus Rufer about the company’s all-composite cryogenic pressure vessels and their role in a range of applications, including recent and upcoming lunar lander missions.
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From prototypes to performance: Composites company makes inroads into new markets
Top Shops 2024 honoree Calian’s composites division blends R&D, rapid prototyping and scalable production with deep engineering integration and corporate synergy.
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