Materials

Recycling

Kautex targets automotive sustainability with Green+ materials

Composite materials line, made with 20% biomass materials and/or 25% recycled materials, demonstrates the Tier 1’s focus on sourcing sustainable materials and meeting its Sustainability Roadmap.  

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Curing

Formable, reusable tooling achieves complex composite parts

CAMX 2024: Hawthorn Composites is displaying an inner and outer tail boom and a multi-chamber composite trailing edge control surface, enabled via its Smart Tooling solution.

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Thermoplastics

ITHEC 2024 finalizes conference program, features CW panel on TPC certification for future airframes

The International Conference and Exhibition on Thermoplastic Composites on Oct. 9-10, 2024 features top speakers and sessions on novel TPC technologies and applications in automotive, aerospace, hydrogen and more.

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Resins

Unsaturated polyester resin exhibits flame-retardant properties

CAMX 2024: Polynt is demonstrating its halogen-free A 6104 A resin at the Composites One Demo Booth in the making of a battery tray using a silicone bag closed mold process.

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Infusion

Stitched, needle-punched fabrics benefit open and closed molding

CAMX 2024: Vectorply Corp. displays a range of engineered reinforcements, including NCFs, needle-punched reinforcements, consumables and more, along with highlighting it technical support options.

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CAMX

Company R&D supports specialty resins, additives development

CAMX 2024: Interplastic highlights its range of specialty resin offerings, as well as its advancements in R&D producing gelcoats, colorants, bonding compounds, adhesives and putties.

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Carbon Fibers

Sicomin, Fairmat to create recycled CFRP stiffener for body scale

French specialists work together to match epoxy resin production and compatibility targets for a next-gen digital body scan scale product.

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Resins

Cyanate ester resins feature high-temperature processing capabilities

CAMX 2024: Arxada AG showcases its thermoset resins Primaset HTM-100 and Primaset HC for high temperatures, FST, dielectric properties and more.

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Marine

Revisiting the OceanGate Titan disaster

A year has passed since the tragic loss of the Titan submersible that claimed the lives of five people. What lessons have been learned from the disaster?

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Carbon Fibers

Dahltram I-350CF qualified through JuggerBot 3D Material Card suite

The collaboration focuses on developing parameters for repeatable and reliable pellet-fed 3D printing using the carbon fiber-reinforced high-temperature tooling resin.

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