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SAMPE ’08 technology showcase
Billed as the world’s largest advanced materials trade event, SAMPE’s 2008 Symposium and Exhibition returned to Long Beach.
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Aviation Outlook: Fuel pricing ignites demand for composites in commercial transports
A confluence of aircraft OEM technical innovation and economic pressures on their airline customers creates increasingly favorable market conditions for aerospace composites.
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Aviation Outlook: Composite aerostructures in General Aviation
Although the math is fuzzy and once helpful category distinctions are blurring, the forecast for this sector’s use of fiber-reinforced polymer remains strong.
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JEC COMPOSITES 2008 show review
Composites professionals converged on this annual Parisian gathering in greater numbers than ever before, confident that the market’s global growth will continue.
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Tough sandwich design lightens load floor in crossover SUV
Volkswagen’s new 2009 Tiguan crossover sport utility vehicle — the name is a cross between tiger and iguana — aims to please a wide range of customers with power and economy. Based on Volkswagen’s Golf platform, Tiguan has lightweight components in many areas, including the load floor, the flat panel behind
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JEC Composites Show Product Showcase
Composites professionals converged in Paris in greater numbers than ever before, confident that the market’s global growth will continue.
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Pultruders need some self-control
Pultrusion veteran Joe Sumerak argues that in today’s more-competitive global marketplace, pultruders can no longer afford to overprice their products to compensate for process and supervision inefficiency.
Read MoreFrom the Publisher: Boy, have I been on the road lately
Boy, have I been on the road, lately. I’ve attended the Speed News commercial aircraft conference in California, flown to the EPTA pultrusion conference in Rome, ridden the train to Paris for the JEC COMPOSITES Show, had a week to catch my breath, and now I’m writing this from the SME Composites Manufacturing confe
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Flying high on composite wings
FRP wings, fuselages and other primary and secondary structures on GA prop, turboprop and jet aircraft help lift this market to unprecedented heights.
Read MoreYour chance to be heard
About this time each year, we in the magazine publishing business start thinking seriously about the next year. We think about the topics we might cover, the types of articles we might approach differently, technologies that we’ve not visited in a while and emerging technologies we’ve not visited at all, as well as
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