Automotive

Automotive

Automated Preforming, Part 1: Numbers and Landscape

CW’s multi-blog series on preforming begins with an overview and quick look at the numbers: 1-minute take time, 10-15 seconds per layer, 490-kg/hr and 3.5 million parts/year. Are you ready for serial CFRP production?

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Adhesives

Composites recycling: Gaining traction

Recycling of carbon fiber, glass fiber and — at last — resins, is growing as new players enter the space.

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Autoclave

European SAMPE meeting explores composites innovation

High spots from SAMPE Europe’s Summit 17.

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Automotive

Gardner Business Index at 55.2 in March 2017

As the year’s first quarter closed out, the trend was growth and expectations were that growth would continue.

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Automotive

The automotive industry’s “killer app”?

Automotive is king, and the killer automotive app will be the multi-material and all-carbon-fiber B-pillar.

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ATL/AFP

Process automation: A model response to Trumponomics and Brexit?

Offshoring can’t go on forever and a significant trend toward reshoring is probably inevitable.

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RTM

ÂÌñÏׯÞ's story planning journey

Automotive materials and process innovation in the driver’s seat.

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Automotive

Accelerating materials insertion: Where do virtual allowables fit?

In the quest to reduce the time and cost for aerocomposite design allowables development, will conventional physical testing and virtual testing go head-to-head or work side-by-side?

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Molds/Tools

Curved pultrusion? No longer an oxymoron

Radius-Pultrusion process offers linear or curved profiles.

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Automotive

Frank Macher, Jon Smith retire from Continental Structural Plastics

Steve Rooney named CEO, Steve Wisniewski promoted to vice president of finance.

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