National Composites Week

Economics

Composites market shows signs of stabilizing as future outlook brightens

Improving supplier deliveries and strong future business index point to opportunities ahead.  

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Radalytica advances multimodal 3D robotic scanner for composites, future aircraft inspection

Radalytica continues to develop its RadalyX nondestructive testing (NDT) system, merging diverse imaging methodologies for inspection in laboratories to aircraft hangars.

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JEC

JEC World 2025 unveils Innovation Award finalists

These 33 finalists, celebrating successful projects and partnerships in composites innovation, will be narrowed down to 11 winners at the JEC World 2025 Premiere on Jan. 13, 2025.

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Prepregs

SHD Composite Materials celebrates 15 years, opens additional facility

Independent composite material manufacturer continues to grow its global reach, maintains its flexible customer support with the opening of an additional facility on its U.K. campus.

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Carbon Fibers

Airborne completes final delivery of CFRP mirror structures for Fred Young Submillimeter Telescope

Airborne, with the help of partners, designed, manufactured and assembled two 6-meter-diameter mirror support structures for highly complex scientific telescope project.

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Composite Integration adds real-time resin degassing measuring to Ciject equipment

Ciject resin infusion and injection machinery now offers real-time resin degassing measurement technology that uses sensors and software to continuously monitor the state of resin during the degassing process.

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Aerospace

Safran expands LEAP engine production capacity in Querétaro

New capacities covering entire single-aisle commercial aircraft engine life cycle strengthens Safran’s footprint in Mexico.

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Space

FibreCoat secures up to €20 million for coatings maturation

Metal- and plastics-coated fiber innovator aims to rapidly grow radiation-, heat- and EMI-resistant material offerings for space and defense.

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Recycling

DITF oriented rCF tapes target virgin fiber CFRP substitution

Infinity project developed highly oriented rCF/PA6 tapes with 88% the tensile strength, modulus of a virgin CFRP product and 49-66% reduction in global warming potential.

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Glass Fibers

ORNL demonstrates lightning strike protection tech for composites

Researchers, led by Vipin Kumar, developed a low-cost, recyclable carbon fiber wind turbine blade tip that showed resilience to high-voltage lightning strikes, with more innovations in store.

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