Carbon Fibers
Turnkey manufacturing systems: Part-per-minute thermoplastic composites
Pinette Emidecau Industries’ (PEI, Chalon-sur-Saône, France) leads a consortium of providers that are collaborating on the Quilted Stratum Process (QSP), a means to accelerate thermoplastic composites processing in the auto industry.
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Turnkey manufacturing systems: Automated RTM for aerospace
German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) Center for Lightweight Production Technology site in Stade, Germany, has developed EVo, an automated production line capable of 100,000 complex composite parts/yr.
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Candidates sought: Professor of Composite Materials
Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) is seeking candidates to fill a vacancy for the position of Professor of Composite Materials.
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Candidates sought: Associate Professor of Polymer Chemistry
Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) is seeking candidates to fill a vacancy for the position of Associate Professor of Polymer Chemistry.
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For carbon fiber, the future certainly looks bright
ñ's annual Carbon Fiber conference last week included an upbeat outlook for the supply and demand of carbon fiber, with particularly strong growth expected in automotive, pressure vessels and energy development.
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Tour of ORNL’s Manufacturing Demonstration Facility
3D printing was the focus during the tour of the ORNL facility in Knoxville, TN.
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Cruise-capable rotorcraft exploits the performance of composites
The Carter Aviation Personal Air Vehicle combines the best of fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters, in an all-carbon composite design.
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Volvo 65: Identical and optimal composite spars and rigging
“One design” concept takes the boat out of the yacht-racing equation, pitting teams against the wind, sea … and each other.
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Reducing manufacturing cost via RTM
Airbus Bremen aims to replace dozens of prepreg components and assembly operations with a unitized multispar composite flap molded in a one-shot process.
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Composite Multispar Flap (CMF) project at Airbus Bremen demonstrates SQRTM process for producing aircraft flaps
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