Carbon Fibers

Carbon Fibers

Highlights from 10th Intl. CFK Valley Stade Convention 2016

Annual conference featured new carbon composite technologies.

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Carbon Fibers

Huntsman, Acciona collaborate on all-composite lighthouse

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

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Space

The emerging commercial space industry: Habitats and CubeSats

This sidebar to the September 2016 feature story on the emerging commercial space industry focuses on Habitats and CubeSats.

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Carbon Fibers

The emerging commercial space industry: Google’s Lunar XPRIZE

This sidebar to the September 2016 feature story on the emerging commercial space industry focuses on Google’s Lunar XPRIZE.

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Autoclave

The emerging commercial space industry

A decade since NASA opened extraterrestrial space to potential use as a commercial industry workplace, CW traces the role composites have played in public/private progress toward that goal.

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PEEK

3D printed composite parts provide solution for UAV

New technology uses long carbon fibers to boost strength and stiffness for small yet high-performance aircraft.

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Carbon Fibers

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.

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Automotive

Trace: A simple, must-have tool

This recently discovered constant in laminate calculations can put designing with CFRP materials on par with designing with metals.

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Get ready for Composites 4.0!

It might seem like science fiction, but it must be our path if we are to make composites competitive.

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Recycling

Recycled carbon fiber: Its time has come

Impressive industry growth puts a new emphasis on the role of carbon fiber recycling.

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