Resins

Automotive

Composites for heavy truck: Tough-duty inspection cover

Thermoplastic composite reduces weight, cost, corrosion, extends maintenance intervals.

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Styrene & cobalt: Headed for the exit?

Fair or not, styrene and cobalt are now considered harmful to humans. Here's an update on the impact this issue poses for the composites industry and what resin and additive manufacturers are doing about it.

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Aerospace

Highlights: JEC Europe 2014

Composites enable high performance and lower weight in washtubs, wheelchairs and engine exhaust cones. Plus new, ultralight materials.

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Carbon Fibers

Aonix Advanced Materials system combines material, machinery

Ottawa-based company develops turnkey technology for high-performance, thermoplastic composites at volumes of up to 1 million parts per month.

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Braiding

AFP/ATL evolution

A view of the trends in automated fiber placement and automated tape laying from inside the supply chain.

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Ketones

Thermoplastic composites save weight in rotorcraft aerostructure

This helicopter structure outdoes both metal and thermoset-composite alternatives.

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Epoxies

No-oven, No-autoclave (NONA)

Room-temperature cure epoxy composites with a 400°F Tg, comparable properties vs. commercial systems without external heat or post-cure, and offering reduced cost and cycle time. Really?

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Thermoplastics

Two visions of 3-D printing in CFRP

Freespace Composites and MarkForged pursue different paths to exploit carbon fiber in 3-D printing.

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Glass Fibers

Inspection: 30-year-old fiberglass pipeline stands test of time

Examined after three decades in service (half its predicted service life), this filament wound fiberglass pipe showed no signs of degradation.

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Aerospace

GKN Aerospace funds new aero-engine composites technology

GKN-led G5Demo project will pursue new composites technologies at Linköping-based ACAB subsidiary, aimed to cut aero-engine CO2-emissions in half by 2020.

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