Materials

Epoxies

SPE names finalists for 45th-annual automotive innovation awards competition

Category and Grand Award winners selected during the Blue Ribbon judging round will be announced on Nov. 9, 2016 during the 46th SPE Automotive Innovation Awards Gala.

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Carbon Fibers

RocTool composite demo at K 2016

In partnership with Flextronics and Arburg, the RocTool new technology combines the forming of a composite sheet and injection overmolding of thermoplastic in the same process.

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Siemens launches new end-to-end additive manufacturing solution

Company believes this is a "world's first" solution that integrates the entire additive manufacturing process from automated performance-driven design optimization to advanced 3D printing.

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Aerospace

Meggitt expands carbon brake manufacturing capacity

With the expansion, Meggitt Aircraft Braking Systems moved its wheel-and-brake maintenance and repair operations from Akron, Ohio to Danville, Kentucky.

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Automotive

Teijin + Continental Structural Plastics: Going forward

With Teijin set to take the reins of Continental Structural Plastics (CSP), both companies start thinking about how the future will look for this new autocomposites Tier 1.

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RTM

CAMX 2016 Show Report

The 3rd annual joint ACMA/SAMPE-sponsored trade event comes to Anaheim with an exhibition and conference program attractive to professionals across the composites world.

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Fabrics/Preforms

3D knitting solves preforming cost, time

Disruptive digitized technology a dramatic step-change in near-net preform production for Dassault Falcon interior air duct.

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On Mars, not just any suit will do

NASA seeks impact resistance in next-generation space suit.

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Innovative molding technology for high-performance apps

Composites are relatively new materials, and since their begining, able and motivated individuals have been diligently trying to make them better. A case in point is TEK-USA (Canal Fulton, OH, US).

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Prepregs

Is the BMW 7 Series the future of autocomposites?

BMW AG's Dingolfing, Germany, auto manufacturing facility is well known for churning out a variety of car models and types, and the 7 Series is among them, famous for its steel/aluminum/composites construction. Does this car represent the optimum of composites use in vehiicles? This plant tour of the Dingolfing plant looks at how composites on the 7 Series come together.

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CW Tech Days: High-Temp Composite Solutions