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Composites enable construction, and handle unique VTOL loads, of unmanned aerial vehicles’ helicopter-to-airplane conversion.

You will read more about what we discovered at JEC World 2018 in the coming weeks and months, but for now this is a quick review of some of the highlights from the world’s largest composites trade show.

Its millimeter-length macro CNTs are finally realizing their commercial composites potential, with spacecraft applications leading the way.

An outgrowth of rapid prototyping, tool-free additive fabrication technologies have the potential to form small, limited-run composite parts directly from CAD data.

An outgrowth of rapid prototyping, tool-free additive fabrication is shortening product development cycles for manufacturers of smaller, limited-run composite parts.

CAMX 2017 is coming up, Sept. 11-14 in Orlando, FL, US. If you are headed to the show, ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ has gathered technology and product previews from several exhibitors to help you understand what you can expect to find at the event.

As always, IBEX supplied new products, processes and education, not only to boatbuilders, but to the composites industry overall.

JEC World is the composites industry’s largest trade show and did not disappoint this year.

Harbingers of what could be a significant trend, these composites manufacturers demonstrate the potential of additive fabrication and several innovative materials in tool-free manufacture of complex components.

When École Polytechnique de Montréal (Montreal, Canada) developed a race car to enter in the 2010 Formula SAE competition, it turned to Solid Concepts Inc. (Valencia, Calif.) and additive fabrication for help.