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Wind/Energy

IBEX 2010: Looking up in Louisville

A new location helps regenerate a recession-battered industry, drawing in more exhibitors and attendees than in 2009.

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Biomaterials

Preview: Composites 2011

The annual ACMA event returns to Florida, with a keynote look at composites from a military point of view.

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Sustainability

Unmanned Systems North America 2010

Growing trade event underscores composites’ continuing vital role in unmanned systems for aviation and marine applications.

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Learjet 85 composite pressurized cabin a cost cutter

Single-piece carbon fiber composite structure selected over multipiece aluminum fuselage barrel section in new bizjet design.

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Infrastructure

High-Performance Resins 2010 Highlights

Inaugural conference for the advanced resins research crowd updates formulators and processors on the latest developments.

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Medical applications: A healthy market

Composites make advances in devices for medical diagnosis and treatments that promote healing and help return patients to active lives.

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RTM

Mold heating study proves pressurized water system

Westminster Solutions and SINGLE Temperature Controls partner to create an RTM cell that heats the mold more efficiently with pressurized water rather than with a conventional oil heating system..

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Composites education: Improvement through collaboration

The American Composites Manufacturers Assn.'s (Arlington, Va.) chief staff executive Tom Dobbins contends that composites education will advance more quickly if the industry moves toward consistent, standardized curricula for basic and advanced training.

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IBEX 2010 Highlights

The world’s largest watercraft construction exhibition navigates new waters to its first inland rendezvous.

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