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Huntsman, AMD collaborate for functional composites development

Electrically enhanced, carbon nanotube-integrated composite materials will be supported by Advanced Material Development’s (AMD) nanomaterials expertise and Huntman’s chemical and material solutions.

Low-cost, efficient CFRP anisogrid lattice structures

CIRA uses patented parallel winding, dry fiber, silicone tooling and resin infusion to cut labor for lightweight, heavily loaded space applications.

Ultra-thin woven fabric enables 90% resource reduction in satellite solar array manufacturing

Kerberos Engineering uses TeXtreme 0/90 woven fabrics for satellite solar array manufacturing, cutting weight and onboard resources, enhancing structural integrity and streamlining production.

Autocomposites market is expected to double revenue by 2032

Increase in demand for lightweight vehicles, stringent regulations and a rise in EV adoption are factors that are currently driving growth in automotive composites, according to a recent report.

From the CW Archives: Fast-cure epoxies for automotive fabrication

Sara Black’s 2015 report on the development of snap-cure epoxies for automotive manufacturing still resonates today.

Innovation Award finalists revealed for JEC World 2024

Returning to the international composites trade show are the Innovation Awards, representing up to 33 finalists in 11 categories that highlight composites innovation excellence and fruitful collaborations.

AZL collaborative project to redefine hydrogen tank development

Kick-off meeting sparks comprehensive discussions on materials, manufacturing and design, setting the stage for composite-based hydrogen vessel solutions.

Composite molding compound replaces Invar for lightweight small satellite structures

Patz Materials and Technologies and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed a new monolithic optics housing with 80% less weight, near-zero CTE and the high-volume manufacturing required for commercial space.

Adhesives, material solutions promote end market versatility

CAMX 2023: Rudolph Bros. and Co. highlights its role as a prominent specialty chemical distributor and solutions provider with a display of high-performance adhesives, sealants, materials and more from well-known manufacturers.

JEC World 2023 preview

JEC World is the composites industry’s largest trade event, featuring exhibits, presentations and specialized pavilions covering the entire composites industry supply chain.

JEC Composites Innovation Award 2023 winners

The JEC Group has announced the winner for each of the ten Innovation Award categories. Learn more about the winners, their projects and future expectations in person or via livestreaming at JEC World 2023.

Novel dry tape for liquid molded composites

MTorres seeks to enable next-gen aircraft and open new markets for composites with low-cost, high-permeability tapes and versatile, high-speed production lines.

One-shot manufacture of 3D knitted hybrid thermoplastic composite structures

MAPICC 3D project replaces steel seat support in heavy-duty vehicle with a 3D knitted composite made from thermoplastic hybrid yarns comprising the matrix and reinforcing components.

UniFORM: High-quality, high-complex EV battery enclosures at low cycle times, low tooling costs

Stellantis subsidiary CpK Interior Products Inc. recently completed a design challenge to prove out its vacuum-assisted wet compression molding process for CFRP battery trays.

Materials & Processes: Resin matrices for composites

The matrix binds the fiber reinforcement, gives the composite component its shape and determines its surface quality. A composite matrix may be a polymer, ceramic, metal or carbon. Here’s a guide to selection.

JEC World reveals 2022 Innovation Awards finalists

Innovation Awards celebrate successful projects and fostered cooperation between players in the composite industry, with 30 finalists in ten categories.

NASA Institute develops carbon nanotube-based composites for Mars spacecraft

The five-year project employs computational modeling techniques to build composite panels that are three times stiffer and stronger than current carbon fiber to enable manned missions to Mars.

Northern Composites, Krayden discuss acquisition

Colorado-based distributor Krayden expands its composites industry presence with the acquisition of Northern Composites. Both companies talk about the deal.

GreenLight project explores fire-resistant and bio-based FRPs for structural lightweight design in ships

Project leader Fraunhofer IFAM and six associated partners to study FRPs such as polybenzoxazine- and benzoxazine-based composite materials to meet strict safety regulations, requirements on passenger ships.

Multifunctional composite structures across end markets

Innovators find new ways to add functions — from anti-icing to 5G signal transmission to structural batteries and beyond — into structural composites.

Speeding RTM with heat-flux sensors

Clean Sky 2 INNOTOOL 4.0 project advances cure monitoring for larger and less costly lightweight landing gear made using composites.

Huntsman Advanced Materials resin systems meet composite pressure vessel requirements

Araldite resin systems cover wet and towpreg filament winding and RTM manufacturing processes for increased productivity and greater part consistency.

People in Composites: February 2021

Teijin Ltd., CSP, EconCore, Metyx, Zetec, Workhorse and more announce new hires in the composites industry.

Krayden acquires Northern Composites

Acquisition will strengthen both company’s supplier relationships and enhance breadth of premium quality composite materials distributed.

Huntsman Corp. acquires Gabriel Performance Products

Gabriel will continue the strategic growth of its specialty additives and epoxy curing agents for the coatings, adhesives and composites end markets with Huntsman.

Graphene 101: Forms, properties and applications

Graphene-enhanced composites find new applications across end markets as the supply chain continues to mature.

C-FREX exoskeleton depends on CFRP for unpowered movement

C-FREX uses a novel design and CFRP to overcome the heaviness and weakness of metallic exoskeletons.

Composite output shaft ready for automotive proving ground

Unlike automotive driveshafts, automotive output shafts cannot leverage shaft length as a factor when making the case for composites. Instead, other beneficial features have made a composite output shaft able to compete with metal shafts, especially in electric vehicles.

Revolutionizing the composites cost paradigm, Part 2: Forming

Boeing-led parts trials explore infusion, compression molding and thermoplastics, offering lessons and supply chain options to better compete with aluminum.

RAPM development with PtFS

Boeing-led program explores rapid part cycles using automated, 180-channel thermal control molding cell for infusion, thermoset prepreg and thermoplastic composites.

Transparency Market Research releases Aerospace Composites Market report

Findings predict the global aerospace composites market value and trends between 2016 and 2024.

Huntsman epoxy, polyurethane resins designed for aero, auto, wind

Huntsman Advanced Materials is showcasing applications of its resin systems for the automotive, aerospace, wind energy markets.

Huntsman acquires CVC Thermoset Specialties

Huntsman will pay $300 million for U.S.-based CVC Thermoset Specialties, which manufactures epoxies, toughening agents and other materials.

One-piece, one-cure, infused carbon fiber wheel is ready to roll

ESE Carbon Co.’s new carbon fiber wheel uses tailored fiber placement and custom presses to minimize waste and improve scalability.

Chomarat glass fiber reinforcement lightens mass-produced auto parts

G-PLY, developed for KraussMaffei’s HP-RTM process, reportedly delivers weight savings of 60% for leaf springs.

National Composites Week takes place Aug. 26-30

Each day features a different theme celebrating the composites manufacturing industry.

SAMPE 2019: The highlights

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Huntsman introduces high-performance adhesives and composites systems

The company’s new edge and void fillers and stuctural adhesives are designed for aerospace composites.

JEC World 2019 preview: Huntsman

Huntsman will be showcasing its portfolio of composites and polyurethane resins, adhesives and syntactics technologies for automotive, aerospace and industrial applications at JEC World 2019.

JEC World 2019 Preview

The JEC World trade show and conference, the largest composites event in the world, will be held at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, March 12-14, 2019.

Plant tour: Composite Resources, Rock Hill, SC

Equipped to meet vertical needs with rapid turnaround, Rock Hill, SC’s Composite Resources has found the sweet spot between prototypers and large composites manufacturers.

CAMX 2018: Second look, more new developments

Curved pultrusion for automotive, Smart Susceptors for primary structure repairs and Huntsman advances leaf springs for trucks, carbon wheels for automotive, “thin-ply” ailerons with Airbus and Nanocomp Technologies.

CAMX 2018: Big changes coming

3D printing goes thermoset, pultrusion aims at automotive, a polyester resin with Tg>250°C and much more from the Dallas exhibit floor.

Huntsman opens manufacturing facility in Vietnam

The site will house Huntsman’s Polyurethanes and Advanced Materials businesses.

JEC World 2018: The highlights

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

JEC World 2018: Highlights

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.

Fast and Faster: Rapid-cure resins drive down cycle times

New systems include sub-1-minute cures ideal for higher automotive production volumes.

Wood/carbon composites for architecture

Innovative organic architecture enabled with wood/carbon laminates, software tools.

Carbon fiber has designs on production wheels

A high-performance CFRP wheel manufacturer for nearly 20 years, Dymag is now part of a broader effort to reduce their cost and migrate them into volume vehicles.

A range of new products from Huntsman

Huntsman Advanced Materials used the 2017 CAMX show to showcase new products from its Advanced Materials and Huntsman Polyurethanes divisions, including advanced composite resin systems and adhesives.

JEC World 2017: Show report, part 1

JEC World 2017 was, by almost any measure, the biggest and busiest JEC event yet, and exhibitors came with much to show the world of composites about innovation in materials, equipment and technology.

JEC World 2017 exhibit preview

JEC World will be held March 14-16 in Paris. CW previews some of the products and technologies that will be at the show.

Huntsman, Acciona collaborate on all-composite lighthouse

The first-ever all-composite lighthouse is now installed at the port of Valencia in Spain.

Not your average carbon fiber part

A Swedish industrial designer and artisan, Ragnar Friberg, contacted CW recently about a new project: a one-of-a-kind custom champagne glass and an accompanying storage cabinet that incorporates carbon fiber — along with a number of high-end materials.

JEC World 2016: Automotive highlights

On the automotive side, Henkel (Düsseldorf, Germany) emphasized on its JEC stand a glass fiber-reinforced composite leaf spring, based on Henkel’s polyurethane matrix resin Loctite MAX 2, used in the chassis of the new Volvo (Gothenberg, Sweden) XC90, a premium crossover SUV; the platform of this vehicle is expected to be applied to other Volvo cars in the coming years.

Polybenzoxazine on the horizon?

Benzoxazine veteran Dr. Hatsuro Ishida at Case Western Reserve University has developed what he calls the fourth generation of this versatile high-heat, high-strength matrix resin.

JEC World 2016, the full report

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Materials & Processes: Fiber formats for composites

Fibers used to reinforce composites are supplied directly by fiber manufacturers and indirectly by converters in a number of different forms, which vary depending on the application. Here's a guide to what's available.

Lower cost, less waste: Inline prepreg production

New technologies move direct (fabricator-based) prepregging closer to reality.

JEC World 2016 exhibition and product previews

JEC World 2016 will be held in Paris March 8-10. These are some of the products that will be found at the show.

VBO prepregs: The Vision SF50

OOA vacuum-bag-only process makes carbon fiber structures a reality for the world’s first personal jet.

Wet compression molding

Automated process cuts cycle time and cost for CFRP parts with potential for 65% fiber volume via Dynamic Fluid Compression Molding variant.

Slideshow of SPE ACCE 2015

A look at the 15th edition of SPE’s Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE).

Automotive composites: Thermosets for the fast zone

Epoxies continue to be developed for faster cure to meet automotive production rates.

Thermoplastic composites technology: A view from Europe

For this Dutch consortium, bringing the manufacturability of thermoplastic materials to maturity is the goal in concert with OEMs, materials and equipment supplier members.

The rise of HP-RTM

Decades of development have propelled it to prominence but its future demands industrial solutions for handling cost, complexity and process control.

The matrix (2015)

The matrix binds the fiber reinforcement, gives the composite component its shape and determines its surface quality. A composite matrix may be a polymer, ceramic, metal or carbon. Here's a guide to selection.

SPE ACCE report

Automotive composites still on the horizon — are they getting closer?

Recycled carbon fiber update: Closing the CFRP lifecycle loop

Commercial production of recycled carbon fiber currently outpaces applications for it, but materials characterization and new technology demonstrations promise to close the gap.

SPE ACCE 2014 report

Automotive composites still on the horizon — are they getting closer?

CAMX offers unprecedented new product access

CAMX 2014, Oct. 13-16 in Orlando, Fla., promises to be North America's largest ever composites trade show and conference. As a result, exhibitors are coming to the event with a wide array of new and existing materials, machinery, software and technology designed to help make composites fabrication faster, easier and more adaptable. ��ñ�� has been gathering information from CAMX exhibitors about what they will be featuring and introducing in their booths. This week's CAMX newsletter offers a preview of some of what you will find on the show floor.

2014 JEC Europe Review

The composites world met again in Paris, vibrant, stronger, and more forward-looking than ever before.

BMW Leipzig: The epicenter of i3 production

A glimpse into the inner workings of an automaker at the forefront of serial-production autocomposites.

JEC Europe 2014 Review

The composites world met again in Paris, vibrant, stronger, and more forward-looking than ever before.

Business and busy-ness

CT editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan returns for JEC Europe 2014 in Paris with observations about several intriguing composites industry trends.

BMI and benzoxazine battle for future OOA aerocomposites

Offering weight, cost and process advantages, these “hot zone” resins are moving down the thermometer and into out-of-autoclave structural applications and autoclavable tooling now dominated by epoxies.

HPC's 20th Anniversary: Thanks to HPC’s charter advertisers

Every trade publication lives and dies by its advertisers, and those who had the gumption to ante up for HPC’s premier issue are listed here and those who are still with us (see page numbers below) are gratefully recognized with the HPC 20th Anniversary Medallion.

If not automotive then ... what?

CT columnist and president of Dayton, Ohio-based Quickstep Composites Dale Brosius says it’s not too early for composites industry operatives who are pursuing the automotive holy grail to begin exploration and market development elsewhere.

Cutting the cost of integrated composite aerostructures

A unitized all-composite aircraft door concept is realized in one shot with no fasteners.

JEC Europe 2013 new product showcase

The JEC Europe 2013 trade show (March 12-14, at the Paris Expo, Porte de Versailles, Paris, France) was the venue for introductions of a large number of new composite materials, technologies and manufacturing processes. Here's the CT editorial staff's compilation of what was on display.

An impec-able bike frame: Handmade by machine

Long on technology firsts, this optimized, automated manufacturing process produces nothing short of the “perfect” bike frame.

Material selection optimizes power-to-weight ratio for twin-masted catamaran

Composites are the key when Pauger Carbon Composites (Budapest, Hungary) builds the Fifty-Fifty, a twin-mast catamaran, the design objective for which is the best possible power-to-weight ratio for high speed over long distances.

Rapid layup: New 3-D preform technology

Hook-and-loop fasteners speed layup of carbon, aramid, glass and hybrid fabrics while improving composites’ mechanical performance.

2012 JEC Europe Highlights

JEC’s annual Paris exhibition reports impressive attendance figures as exhibitors tout big news.

SAMPE Tech 2011 in Texas

The Society’s annual fall gathering fills an exhibition hall this year nearly as big as the host state.

SPE ACCE 2011: Growing again

The Society of Plastics Engineers’ 11th conference on automotive composites fields a top slate of speakers and attracts its largest crowd.

Primary structure repair: The quest for quality

Composite airframes on commercial craft drive development of automated repair technology and industry-wide repair technician certification.

F1-inspired MonoCell: Racing safety for the road

Resin transfer molding makes CFRP passenger cell mass-producible for new model supercar.

SAMPE 2010 Seattle Showcase

SAMPE’s first-ever foray into Boeing Country wrapped up with the M&P organization’s biggest draw this decade.

Composites fuel growth of fuel cell technology

Composite components in hydrogen fuel cell systems help handle higher heat and reduce stack size.

JEC COMPOSITES 2009 Product Showcase

Despite the doleful state of the global economy, the turnout in Paris — exhibitors and visitors — proved surprisingly strong.

JEC Composites 2009 showcase

Despite the doleful state of the global economy, the turnout in Paris — exhibitors and visitors — proved surprisingly strong.

COMPOSITES+POLYCON 2009 Showcase

Despite the deepening recession, composites pros returned to the show in its new time slot to explore the wealth of products and services collected here.

SAMPE Europe/JEC Composites 2009 preview

SAMPE Europe’s 30th annual spring conclave and the nearby JEC Composites Show characterize the latest in material and process technologies.

Composites ride and support the rails

Increased ridership and heavier axle loads on rail systems around the world signal a potential boon for composites.

Prototyping and manufacturing by additive fabrication

Additive fabrication (AF) technology, such as laser sintering (LS) and fused deposition modeling (FDM), encompasses a wide range of applications. The earliest was rapid prototyping to support design, concept modeling, fit/function testing, and pattern making without the need to construct expensive tooling for prototypes and test articles. Manufacturers also are using AF to produce jigs, fixtures, drill guides, and other manufacturing and assembly tools.

Composite Hulled Land/Sea Vehicle Nears Launch

Once the stuff of James Bond movies, this U.K.-designed amphibious automobile soon will be manufactured in North America.

JEC COMPOSITES 2008 show review

Composites professionals converged on this annual Parisian gathering in greater numbers than ever before, confident that the market’s global growth will continue.

JEC COMPOSITES Show highlights

The annual gathering in Paris reflects the industry’s confidence that the market’s global growth will continue.

Out-of-autoclave tooling gets out of the blocks

General aviation aircraft manufacturer adopts new oven-cure tooling.

Formulating challenge: Creating better epoxies for vacuum-infused aerospace parts

More attention is being focused on fabricating processes for aircraft structures that can save time and money and improve efficiency while yielding high-quality parts. Historically, nearly all aircraft designers have assumed autoclave cure as the norm, despite the well-documented cost and time advantages of

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