National Composites Week

Midnight production aircraft completes full transition flight

This is Archer’s second full-scale eVTOL aircraft to achieve this milestone, critical to being able to carry commercially viable passenger payloads.

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Superior Huntingdon Composites is sold to Liberty Lane Partners

Independent manufacturer of branded fiberglass composite reinforcements and veils is acquired by New Hampshire private equity firm, preparing the company for significant growth.

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CAMX

Cross-functional company provides complete, scalable project support 

CAMX 2024: Discuss your upcoming composites projects with Janicki, offering more than 30 years of expertise in tools, parts, prototypes and assemblies design and development.

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The next-generation single-aisle: Implications for the composites industry

While the world continues to wait for new single-aisle program announcements from Airbus and Boeing, it’s clear composites will play a role in their fabrication. But in what ways, and what capacity?

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Automotive

Sigmatex achieves IATF 16949 certification

ISO specification endorses the company’s rigorous automotive quality system standards, for which it supplies carbon fiber textile products.

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CAMX

Atmospheric plasma cleaner improves material printing, bonding

CAMX 2024: Plasma Etch Inc. is demonstrating its Plasma Wand, an atmospheric plasma cleaner designed to improve printing and bonding for most material surfaces.

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Carbon Fibers

Thermolysis launches RCF brand supporting recycled carbon fiber product development

Taiwan-based company offers rCF product design and development with significant CO2 emission reductions and certified material traceability.   

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Noncontact digital gage enables precise materials, structural testing

CAMX 2024: Trilion Quality Systems is showcasing the Aramis optical strain gage, a material-independent measurement device with 3D-DIC capabilities.

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Wind/Energy

Siemens Energy hints at 21-MW wind turbine development

Several new sources say that Siemens has told customers its largest wind turbine yet may be introduced by the end of the decade.

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CAMX

Rigid, unfaced foams support high core performance

CAMX 2024: Closed-cell Elfoam products offered by Elliott Co. of Indianapolis offer a number of benefits, making it flexible from large-volume to one-off composites projects. 

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