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JEC World 2018 preview: CHOMARAT
CHOMARAT unveils its new multiaxial NCF reinforcement for thermoplastics, plus an innovative UD carbon reinforcement for wind blades
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Carbon/glass spar cap enables world’s longest wind blade
LM Wind Power goes long with a resin-infused hybrid carbon composite strategy.
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Airtech celebrates 45th anniversary in 2018
The vacuum bagging materials specialist, begun in 1973, is celebrating 45 years of serving the composites manufacturing industry.
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Airtech's Combo-Tech combines vacuum bagging materials
Airtech Advanced Materials Group (Huntington Beach, CA, US) has introduced Combo-Tech, an expanded product line that bonds various vacuum bagging materials together to form what is said to be a better overall product that reduces touch labor.
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Plant tour: Diamond Aircraft Austria, Wiener Neustadt, Austria
Composites use among general aviation manufacturers is far from unusual, but none apply them quite like this airframer does.
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Velox to distribute Enka materials in Europe
Composites and plastics materials distributor VELOX GmbH (Hamburg, Germany) has announced the expansion of its distribution partnership with Low & Bonar (London, UK) to distribute Low & Bonar’s trademarked Enka-Channel and Enka-Fusion resin infusion consumables throughout Europe.
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First all-electric production yacht features carbon fiber construction
Leader in luxury yacht innovation commits to fossil fuel-less future
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Reconfigurable tooling: Revolutionizing composites manufacturing
Shape-changing molds eliminate tooling for large 3D panels while automated assembly fixtures go modular, using metrology to reduce cost and shimming.
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A new paradigm in airframe construction?
MTorres, a major supplier of automated manufacturing equipment for composites, has revealed a new way to manufacture airframe structure using composites.
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Shape Machining shapes Elemental sports car
Designed and manufactured by a team of ex-McLaren designers, the recently launched RP1 features advanced aerodynamics and novel composite solutions, including an all-carbon composite passenger tub built to Formula 1 strength and stiffness standards.
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