Adhesives

Carbon Fibers

Scott Bader's urethane acrylate resins enable Corvette Stingray bumper beam

The company’s Crestapol resins were used for the automotive industry’s first curved, multi-hollow pultruded carbon fiber bumper beam.

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California high school adds composites fabrication to curriculum

A STEM academy recently opened the doors to a brand-new composites fabrication lab, to prepare students for the local aerospace workforce after graduation.

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Sustainability

Henkel to collaborate with Carbon Revolution on composite wheels

Henkel and Carbon Revolution join forces to speed OEM automotive one-piece carbon fiber wheels development. 

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Weaving

Product Roundup: September 2019

CW’s roundup of new products for the composites industry – the past month has seen innovations from Airtech, Ashland, CoreTech, Johns Manville, Karl Mayer, KraussMaffei, PRF Composite Materials, RTP Co., SHD Composite Materials and Zetec.

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Adhesives

Pressure-sensitive tape offers high visibility, elongation

Airtech’s Wrightlease 4 is an extruded fluoropolymer film coated with silicone pressure sensitive adhesive.

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Adhesives

Researchers develop process to make ductile glass

According to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, silica glass shows potential for less brittle electronic screens and, ultimately, structural applications.

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Adhesives

People in Composites: September 2019

CW’s monthly roundup of people news in the composites industry, including recent appointments at Gougeon Brothers, Scott Bader, Shape, KraussMaffei, Teijin Ltd. and the NASA Langley Research Center.

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Automated joining of hybrid metal-thermoplastic composite structures

The FlexHyJoin production cell combines surface structuring, induction and laser joining and NDT for automotive mass production.

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Out of Autoclave

Automotive composites draw international crowd to Detroit

19th SPE ACCE features broad technology overview of evolving automotive composites industry.

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Autoclave

Additive manufacturing reimagined: large-scale, fiber-reinforced thermoset printing

ORNL, MVP and Polynt-Reichhold launch world’s first commercially available, large-scale thermoset composite additive manufacturing machine and reactive print material.

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