Carbon Fibers

Pultrusion

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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PAEK

First Toray LMPAEK tape laminate for Clean Sky MECATESTERS project

KVE Composites Group and Rescoll cooperate in GKN Fokker-led project to develop micromechanical characterization of thermoplastic co-consolidated joints for aircraft fuselages

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Automotive

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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2019 CAMX award, ACE winners illustrate industry trends

Among this year’s award winners are Continental Structural Plastics, the Institut fur Textiltecnik of RWTH Aachen University, LyondellBasell, Fortify, Spirit AeroSystems and more.

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All-composite wheel for electric vehicles wins funding

A project to develop the world’s first commercially viable, low cost, lightweight, all-composite wheel for electric and niche vehicles such as driverless cars wins grant funding of £135,500.

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Autoclave

Into the Hyperloop

The role of composites in the fifth mode of transport.

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Carbon Fibers

Addcomposites' virtual demo on how to make an AFP composite laminate

Readers are walked through how to program and operate the AFP-XS plug and play system.

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Carbon Fibers

Scheurer Swiss supplies 3D printed parts for racecar engine

A Swiss engineering company used 3D-printing to quickly produce carbon fiber-reinforced composite engine parts for the Toyota FT-60.

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Carbon Fibers

A&P Technology awarded contract for attritable aircraft primary structure

The company will uses its large-scale braiding technology to manufacture large textile preforms for primary composite attritable aircraft structures.

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Thermoplastics in the quest for aerospace weight savings

Safran Cabin, Victrex and Tri-Mack Plastics collaborate to migrate an aerospace storage bin from aluminum to an overmolded thermoplastic composite. The result proves the promise of thermoplastics in aerospace interiors.

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