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RTM

Composites recycling: Gaining traction

Recycling of carbon fiber, glass fiber and — at last — resins, is growing as new players enter the space.

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Aerospace

European SAMPE meeting explores composites innovation

High spots from SAMPE Europe’s Summit 17.

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Composites 4.0

Process automation: A model response to Trumponomics and Brexit?

Offshoring can’t go on forever and a significant trend toward reshoring is probably inevitable.

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ATL/AFP

ÂÌñÏׯÞ's story planning journey

Automotive materials and process innovation in the driver’s seat.

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Ford assesses SMC/prepreg suspension knuckle to replace metal

Ford Motor Co.'s Dunton Technical Centre in the UK has developed an SMC/compression molded carbon fiber replacement for a steel suspension knuckle. The part has production viability.

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Weaving

Accelerating materials insertion: Where do virtual allowables fit?

In the quest to reduce the time and cost for aerocomposite design allowables development, will conventional physical testing and virtual testing go head-to-head or work side-by-side?

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Molds/Tools

Curved pultrusion? No longer an oxymoron

Radius-Pultrusion process offers linear or curved profiles.

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Wind/Energy

Wait, wait, there’s more: JEC 2017

There’s never enough time to see everything at the JEC World event, and this year the problem was even worse. Here’s more information on new products and companies, from Paris…

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Automotive

Multimaterialism is back in the Audi A8

Audi shares details about the use of carbon fiber composites, steel, aluminum and magnesium in the Audi Space Frame (ASF) for the next-generation A8.

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Adhesives

Hybrid carbon fiber/aluminum suspension knuckle

Yields 26% greater stiffness via bonded prepreg patch.

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