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The wind energy market has long been considered the world’s largest market, by volume, for glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites — and increasingly, carbon fiber composites — as larger turbines and longer wind blades are developed, requiring higher performance, lighter weight materials. The outer skins of wind and tidal turbine blades generally comprise infused, GFRP laminates sandwiching foam core. Inside the blade, rib-like shear webs bonded to spar caps reinforce the structure. Spar caps are often made from GFRP or, as blade lengths lengthen, pultruded carbon fiber for additional strength.
The Nuna 13 solar car’s 3,000-kilometer journey for the 2025 Bridgestone World Solar Challenge competed with car tires comprising Teijin Aramid’s bio-based fiber reinforcement.
Per a long-term agreement, space-qualified carbon fiber/epoxy materials will be delivered to Airborne for high-volume production of solar array substrates and yoke panels.
The CFRP uncrewed aircraft platform, designed as a sustainable alternative to satellites, completed ground vibration testing, leading up to flight trials in 2026.
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.
Designed for auxiliary power use while traveling via boat or RV, Italian startup Levante’s custom flexible or standardized semi-rigid solar panels combine the benefits of ReCarbon’s rCF and thermoplastics.
JEC World 2025: Levante is attending JEC for the first time, demonstrating its composites engineering expertise through presentation of semi-rigid composite solar panels targeting mobility and outdoor applications.
The new Hamilton facility, equipped with advanced tools like a large autoclave, and AFP machine and expanded clean rooms, boosts Janicki’s ability to deliver complex aerospace composites at greater scale.
Partnership will lean on Airbus’s satellites and helicopters expertise, supporting innovators to advance aerospace-related projects with positive environmental impact.
Airborne Aerospace will manufacture more than 700 composite substrate panels and yoke substrates for Airbus Sparkwing solar arrays, a critical component of MDA Space’s Aurora satellite product line.
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.
