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Consumer

Is a composites technical talent shortage looming?

Regular CW columnist Dale Brosius, also the chief commercialization officer for the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI, Knoxville, TN, US), calls for more schools with curricula that mint engineers with undergraduate degrees in composites.

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Aerospace

AVANCO: Driving the industrialization of CFRP structures

The AVANCO Group is producing high-quality CFRP parts into a wide array of applications from six production facilities in Germany and the US.

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Sustainability

SPE ACCE 2015 show report

Was this the year, finally, for the big break-through for automotive composites? Maybe, depending on to whom one talked or the presentation one heard.

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Out of Autoclave

Teijin (quietly) announces plans for Sereebo rollout in automotive

Somewhat buried in its Integrated Report 2015, Teijin says the company's thermoplastic-based, high-speed molding process, dubbed Sereebo, is ready for commercialization, necessitating in the process a new Teijin manufacturing facility somewhere in the U.S.

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Autoclave

Smart Lightweighting at ACCE

I’m in Detroit, at the 2015 Society of Plastics Engineers’ (SPE) Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition (ACCE), co-chaired by our contributor Dale Brosius and organized by our contributor Peggy Malnati. And I’m seeing real composite cars, and real, in-production composite parts.

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San Diego Composites canisters complete two successful launches

San Diego Composites' Lightweight Low-Cost Canister is part of a US Army-sponsored SBIR program.

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Epoxies

Automotive front axle: A glass act

The development of glass-fiber reinforced car axle is a sign of the new, expanded role composites will play in the design of future automobiles.

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VOC reduction strategies for LFRT composites

Additives supplier seeks novel methods to limit VOC emissions from long-fiber-reinforced thermoplastics.

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Automotive

Rapid tooling breakthrough: Fused particle technology

Super-fast, inexpensive tooling is ideal for low-pressure molding processes and low production volumes.

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Carbon Fibers

HP-RTM: A means, not an end

This side story to CW's Plant Tour of Mubea Carbo Tech explores MCT's HP-RTM technologies.

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microwire technology for composites
microwire technology for composites