CW TALKS

CW Talks: The Composites Podcast highlights the people and technologies shaping the world of composites. Interviews feature guests with expertise and insight about where composites have been and where they are headed.

IACMI

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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Construction

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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Pressure Vessels

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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Episode 49: Yannick Willemin, Catalysium

Yannick Willemin, founder of Catalysium, a new consultancy that specializes in investment trends within the composites industry, discusses the investment side of advanced manufacturing as well as industry trends shaping the composites landscape.

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Aerospace

Episode 48: Richard Apps, Counterpoint Market Intelligence

Counterpoint Market Intelligence will deliver a keynote address at Carbon Fiber Conference 2024, which takes place October 8-10 in Charleston S.C., U.S.

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Aerospace

Episode 47: Celebrating National Composites Week - Interviews with Christopher Mims, Wall Street Journal; Joe Brennan, Joby Aviation

The theme of National Composites Week 2024 is "Composites Reinvent the World" — this episode explores some of the various applications that are reshaping the way we travel and stay connected.

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CAMX

Episode 46: CAMX celebrates 10 years

CW’s Scott Francis interviews Cindy Squires, president/CEO, ACMA and Rebekah Stacha, CEO of SAMPE. They take a look back at the industry’s evolution the last 10 years, the opportunities CAMX will be providing to attendees and much more.  

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Glass Fibers

Episode 45: Scott Reeve; Corey Sechler, Creative Composites Group

Experts from FRP composites manufacturer Creative Composites Group discuss the role of composites in infrastructure projects today, including solutions for bridge rehabilitation and protecting waterfront structures. 

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Sustainability

Episode 44: Andy West, Sonichem

CW interviews Dr. Andy West of Sonichem, about the company’s ultrasonic process for converting biomass into lignin, as well as other biomaterials of interest for composites manufacturing.

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Sustainability

Episode 43: Emphasizing the recycling of wind blades

CW Talks discusses Ford Motor Company’s involvement with the EMPHASIZING project, a UK consortium working to develop a material from recycled glass fiber with mechanical properties superior to virgin glass.

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Aerospace

Episode 42: Jeff Sloan, ÂÌñÏׯÞ

CW publisher and brand V.P. Jeff Sloan discusses the history of CW and the evolution of the composites industry during his time as editor. 

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Episode 41: Chase Hogoboom, T.J. Perrotti, Composite Energy Technologies Inc.

Chase Hogoboom (president) and TJ Perrotti (senior Naval architect and chief design engineer), CET Photo Credit: Composite Energy Technologies Inc.

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