Sustainability
Automotive innovation challenge issued
ALLIANCE (Affordable Lightweight Automobiles Alliance) is a research and innovation project on automotive lightweighting, co-funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program and supported by EUCAR, the European Council for Automotive R&D. The group has issued a challenge for new innovations to help create lighter vehicles.
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Reversible multi-material adhesive bonds
Ferromagnetic nanoparticles in thermoplastic adhesives make it possible to debond and rebond adhesive joints, using electromagnetic energy.
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MHI Vestas repurposes power plant for wind blades
MHI Vestas Offshore Wind A/S (Aarhus, Denmark) will repurpose an oil-fired power plant decommissioned in 2015 into a state-of-the-art painting and logistics facility for its record-breaking 80m turbine blades.
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Episode 12: Geoff Wood, Composites Recycling Technology Center
Geoff Wood, founder, fellow and vice president of innovation at the Composites Recycling Technology Center (CRTC) in Port Angeles, Wash., discusses CRTC, the composites recycling market and more. Geoff will be moderating a panel on composites recycling at ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ’s Carbon Fiber conference Nov. 28-30 in Charleston, South Carolina.
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Covestro composite material wins award
Covestro CFRTP (Pittsburgh, PA, US) has developed a sophisticated composite technology that opens the door to a sustainable future for lightweight products, based on continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastics (CFRTP) in combination with a highly-efficient production method.
Read MoreICE receives small business supplier of the year award from Harris
After three years of collaboration with Harris Energy Solutions in the development of a next-generation radio frequency heating system, Harris Corp. has awarded Innovative Composite Engineering (ICE) its 2016 Small Business Supplier of the Year Award.
Read MoreComposites UK announces 2017 industry award winners
Industry trade association Composites UK revealed the winners of its industry awards that takes place alongside the Advanced Engineering Show.
Read More3A Composites receives two Sacha Awards
The Sacha Awards are awarded every two years for projects on best forestry management and processing of legal timber practices in Ecuador.
Read MoreUS wind power booming
The roster of U.S. wind projects under construction and in advanced development as of the end of the third quarter of 2017 has reached 29,634 megawatts (MW), the highest level since this statistic was first measured at the beginning of 2016, according to a new report from the American Wind Energy Association.
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Tackling the traceability of composite materials
Have you ever looked outside an airplane window during in-flight turbulence and wondered how strong the wings really are and how much load they can take?
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