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Top composites blog articles of 2015
Blog articles about additive manufacturing, 777X composite wings and colored carbon fiber all generated your interest in 2015.
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Carbon Fiber: Refiguring the supply/demand equation
CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan returns from Carbon Fiber 2015 in Knoxville TN, US, with news that carbon fiber demand will outstrip supply by 2020, prompting expansion in the 2018-2019 timeframe that could include sources in China.
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CW Ideas in Action
Ideas are just ideas until someone does the hard work of putting them into action and seeing results. CW's editors, therefore, inaugurate an annual review of Ideas in Action, celebrating a handful of hot concepts that could make those who conceived them "household names."
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Green resins: Closer to maturity
As more players approach the market, R&D expands, but overall market growth in the composites arena is still slow but steady.
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CW Business Index at 44.8 – Contraction continues in October
Steve Kline, Jr., the director of market intelligence for Gardner Business Media Inc. (Cincinnati, OH, US), the publisher of ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ magazine, reviews the ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ Business Index through October 2015.
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Tracking energy costs and resin prices
The price of crude oil has, over the past year, dropped precipitously, and resin prices have, as a result, stopped going up. CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan asks what this might mean to the composites professional.
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Increased competition from metals
Boeing and Airbus are developing new, lightweight, corrosion-resistant metals that are targeting composites' traditional niche in the material sphere.
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CAMX 2015: Automotive, military innovations and on-floor demos
ACMA’s and SAMPE’s second combined event featured plenty of new products and thought-provoking conference sessions for the composites industry.
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CW Business Index at 44.6 — Contraction again in September
Steve Kline, Jr., the director of market intelligence for Gardner Business Media Inc. (Cincinnati, OH, US), the publisher of ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ magazine, reviews the ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ Business Index through September 2015.
Read MoreHead safety initiative to fund research
Sponsored by the National Football League, GE (Fairfield, CT, US), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Gaithersburg, MD, US) and sports apparel maker Under Armour (Baltimore, MD, US), the 2015 Head Health Challenge III will reward up to US$3 million to companies and organizations that deliver novel materials to address and mitigate concussion risks in football and other sports.
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