Sustainability

Sustainability

COMPOSITES 2012 Highlights

As ACMA’s annual conclave convened in North America’s gambling capital, show exhibitors and attendees placed their bets on better days.

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Automotive

Spare wheel well: Functional integration

Gas-assist injection molding enables one-piece, one-shot thermoplastic composite/metal hybrid.

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Carbon Fibers

Carbon fiber market: Gathering momentum

All signs point to increasing demand from many market sectors. Will capacity keep pace?

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Sustainability

Styrene: Issues and implications

The facts (such as they are) behind the furor surrounding this vital crosslinking chemical’s listing in the 12th RoC.

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Marine

Noise enclosures: Composites damp sound on offshore rig

For offshore oil rig operations, DIAB has led a team that developed a cored sandwich composite alternative to metal sound-damping enclosures at half the weight.

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Sustainability

COMPOSITES 2012 Preview

The ACMA’s annual composites industry exhibition focuses on future opportunities.

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Carbon Fibers

ÂÌñÏ×ÆÞ Investment Forum 2011 Highlights

When CIF conferees gathered, the subject was capital (its lack) and the prescription was scale up.

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Sustainability

Material deformation and recovery test methods

Dr. Donald F. Adams (Wyoming Test Fixtures Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah) reviews ways and means to quantify composite material deformation and recovery.

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Aerospace

The Plane in Spain

Site tours provide a rare glimpse into the Iberian Peninsula’s aerospace composites sector, with a special focus on Airbus’ activities at Illescas.

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Wind/Energy

SAMPE Tech 2011 in Texas

The Society’s annual fall gathering fills an exhibition hall this year nearly as big as the host state.

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