Past, Present and Future

Graphene

Graphene and CNTs: Commercialization after the hype

Graphene and CNT applications within the advanced composites sector are still at a relatively early stage of the commercialization process, but as the availability of materials or dispersions of consistent quality has increased, a number of composite materials and components are starting to incorporate these nanomaterials.

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Carbon Fibers

Additive manufacturing and composites: An update

Additive manufacturing has only begun to tap the potential available in the composite industry.

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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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Current state of the M&A and capital markets – sell, sell, SELL!!

Current market conditions suggest that 2017 should see sustained M&A activity, despite the 2016 reduction.

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Aerospace

Aerospace composites in “the more for less” era

The past decade was about innovation and new technology. The next will be about productivity.

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McDonnell Douglas composite cryotanks — a personal history

Composites industry veteran Bob Hartunian looks back on a bold effort in 1987 to develop a thermoplastic composite cryotank for hydrogen storage. It gets complicated.

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