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JEC World 2025 provided attendees and exhibitors alike with three dynamic days filled with business interactions, expertise sharing and knowledge exchange. The 27 regional and national pavilions and more than 1,350 exhibitors displayed a host of technological composites innovations, some of which CW editors identify in more detail below.

Despite ongoing uncertainties surrounding U.S. manufacturing specifically and geopolitics generally, CW saw continued proliferation in many of the trends industry is already familiar with — the pursuit of thermoplastic composites innovations, evolving recycling and biomaterials technologies, composites machining, digitized processes and others. 

During a post-show recap of the event, brand VP Jeff Sloan and editor-in-chief Scott Francis also shared their own insights and key takeaways, noting that it is an “interesting in-between time for the aerospace industry and composites in aerospace” in regards to a future new single-aisle aircraft. They also discuss the forming of opportunities in space and defense markets, seeing good progress for advanced air mobility (AAM) front-runners despite some ongoing skepticism, and the prominent place hydrogen still held at the show.

• Recap #1: CW technical editor Hannah Mason shares sustainability-focused composites trade show highlights featuring maturation, scale-up, new partnerships, and new technologies in biomaterials and recycling. 
• Recap #2: CW senior technical editor Ginger Gardiner discusses latest developments in composites from this year’s show, from new materials and processes to 3D printed Invar tools to the first carbon fiber manufacturing in India and more.
• Recap #3: CW editor-in-chief Scott Francis discusses trends in aerospace on display at JEC World, and the industry’s continued focus on new space, defense and UAM.

Also make sure to check out some of the live video content shared from the show, including additional technology and exhibitor highlights, .