Carbon Fibers

Aerospace

Teijin breaks ground for carbon fiber facility in South Carolina

TENAX manufacturing to start second half of 2020, targeting aerospace and automotive industries.

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ATL/AFP

How is tow spread?

ITA characterizes tow spreading processes and parameters as it develops new technology to speed production (100 m/min) and reduce width variation (<1mm).

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RTM

Rear wall reboot: One-stop, tow to tape to CFRP part

Audi and Voith Composites iterate the CFRP rear wall from R8 sports car to A8 luxury sedan via an automated production line able to output hundreds of parts per day.

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Infrastructure

SGL Carbon unveils new brand concept

New brand concept expresses SGL Carbon’s core expertise and bridges the company’s origin and future.

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Epoxies

This foiling racer is crazy fast thanks to composites

The Exocet racer’s hull and its foils, designed via computer model, are fabricated using hand layup and resin infusion methods, respectively, with PRO-SET epoxy.

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Recycling

Green composites: Chicago compounder introduces recycled CF-reinforced PA 6/6

With fiber from aerospace and sporting goods and resin from automotive, thermoplastic composite lowers cost, increases sustainability.

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Arevo in 2018: Industrialized production of continuous fiber 3D-printed parts

With new CEO and $12.5 million in B-series financing, Arevo will have eight direct energy deposition (DED) cells attacking its parts production backlog by year-end.

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IACMI, DuPont, Fibrtec and Purdue University explore new thermoplastics manufacturing process

New carbon fiber composite manufacturing process exhibits improved fabric formability characteristics compared to traditional woven materials.

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Carbon Fibers

4M production line site selection underway

The company has short-listed Tennessee and Georgia as possible sites for its carbon fiber product demonstration line using advanced atmospheric plasma oxidation.

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Marine

OceanGate's Titanic expedition rescheduled

The five-person carbon fiber and titanium submersible Titan will survey the Titanic wreckage in the summer of 2019.

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