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JEC World 2025 highlights: Evolving recycling and biomaterials technologies
CW technical editor Hannah Mason shares sustainability-focused composites trade show highlights featuring maturation, scale-up, new partnerships, and new technologies in biomaterials and recycling.
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Avient TPC panels support Resia Manufacturing building assembly
Prefabricated, modular components for multi-family housing now incorporate Avient’s Hammerhead panel solutions for bathroom and kitchen module interior wall systems.
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GFRP Tech unveils environmentally sustainable mesh systems for construction
EnviraMesh, tailored for heavy-duty applications, targets structural enhancement of buildings and infrastructure with reduced carbon emissions.
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Caracol delivers high-performance, customized 3D printed elements to Pershing sports utility yacht
Heron AM platform demonstrated its capability of fabricating complex superstructural composite parts for the luxury yachting industry with intricate geometries, more efficiency and less waste.
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Norco delivers GFRP hard hulled riverine craft for BAE Systems
Norco’s broad-ranging materials and manufacturing expertise revitalize UK MOD legacy craft, providing a solution for future defense and communications sector projects.
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Pultron Composites GFRP rebar addresses facility, marina project challenges
The company’s Mateenbar GFRP rebar has led to more durable solutions for production of a new medical research center, and to improve structures regularly exposed to harsh marine conditions.
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High-tension, vertical filament winding enables affordable flywheel energy storage system
French startup Energiestro’s prototype solar energy flywheel-based storage system aims to reduce costs with glass fiber composites and prestressed concrete.
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Industry alliance targets closed-loop circularity for nautical construction
Six partners will deliver a composites circularity model from recycled waste to final boat production as a jumping off point for industries beyond marine.
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Wind blade recycling project presents objectives, progress
JEC World 2025: Six of the REFRESH project’s 11 partners are highlighting their efforts to build a circular and sustainable value chain for decommissioned GFRP wind blades.
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V2 Group, Caracol achieve large-format 3D printed monolithic boat
Functional glass fiber-reinforced rPP catamaran offers a tangible example of 3D printing’s ability to accelerate production time, minimize material waste and manufacture quality nautical structures.
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