Editorial
By the Numbers: The Composites Business Index
Composites Technology magazine's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan introduces a new column focused on business trends in the composites industry. Written by Steve Kline, Jr., the the director of market intelligence at CT's parent company Gardner Business Media Inc. (Cincinnati, Ohio), this regular offering will gauge composites industry growth (or lack thereof) by means of metrics compiled in the Composites Business Index.
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JEC 2013 at first blush
CT Editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan risks some immediate reactions to his week in Paris at the JEC Europe 2013 composites trade show.
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The ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ Blog
HPC’s editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan marks the debut of the interactive ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ Blog and invites readers to join the conversation.
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Waiting for $5/lb carbon fiber?
HPC editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan suggests we say goodbye to $5/lb carbon fiber and expect that composites will earn their way onto autos by saving drivers money.
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Yin and Yang
CT's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan highlights the beneficial role composites currently play in reducing costs and disruptions in commerce associated with rehabilitation of underground pipe and tanks.
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Will sequestration ground the F-35?
HPC editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan stands on the U.S. federal budget cliff’s brink and takes a look over the edge at sequestration's potential effects on compistes-oriented U.S. defense spending.
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Old dogs, new tricks
CT Editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan wonders why the composites industry owns only a 5 percent share of the huge corrosion control market.
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Not your father’s machine tools
HPC's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan comments on the crucial roll manufacturers of drill tools play, today, in the ongoing effort to streamline the assembly of composite and metal structures using mechanical fasteners.
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CT editorial: Got ideas?
CT editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan pulls back the veil from CT’s story acquisition policy for those with a story to tell.
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