Marine

World’s largest center console with single-skin hull

Navy RHIB concept goes commercial in the new HydraSports Custom Sueños high-performance offshore fishing boat.

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Wind/Energy

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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Epoxies

Infused trimaran takes to the seas

French shipyard CMN has released a video showing the Ocean Eagle 43 infused epoxy trimaran in action.

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Carbon Fibers

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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Wind/Energy

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 ñ magazine, reviews the ñ Business Index through October 2015.

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Defense

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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Consumer

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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Defense

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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Construction

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 ñ magazine, reviews the ñ Business Index through September 2015.

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Infusion

New 250°F/120°C No Oven No Autoclave epoxy

Designed for room-temp infusion and filament winding with 2-hr no-heat-added cure or 15-30 min heated cure without post-cure for flexible processing of marine, industrial and energy structures.

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