Sustainability

Carbon Fibers

Podcast: John McQuillam, Prodrive Composites

Prodrive Composite chief engineer John McQuillam discusses the company’s primary to tertiary (P2T) carbon fiber composite recycling process.

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Recycling

Episode 29: John McQuilliam, Prodrive Composites

Prodrive Composite’s John McQuilliam discusses the company’s primary to tertiary (P2T) carbon fiber composite recycling process.

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Sustainability

Composites UK announces 2019 composites industry award winners

The 2019 winners include representatives from the National Composites Centre, MPM Ltd., Pentaxia, Gurit Ltd., Surface Generation and Cecence.

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Marine

OceanGate to build two new deep-sea submersibles

The company is planning construction for two new carbon fiber composite submersibles, Cyclops 3 and 4, to be rated for 6,000 meters.

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Automotive

Gurit to close its automotive production site in Hungary mid-2020

Gurit says it was unsuccessful locating a buyer for the company, and will work with customers and affected staff during the process of closing the plant.

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Biomaterials

Six candidates nominated for "Biocomposite of the Year 2019"

Natural fiber composites and wood plastic composites compete for 7th annual innovation award.

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Carbon Fibers

Carbon fiber/epoxy for automotive mass reduction, mass production

IACMI precompetitive research explores carbon fiber-reinforced prepreg, SMC with novel matrix for structural passenger-car applications.

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Construction

Composites industry events focus on recycled carbon fiber, filament winding

CETMA and Suez present a workshop on recycled carbon fiber, MF Tech announces global filament winding convention, and SAMPE 2020 abstracts are due Nov. 15.

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Sustainability

Expansion to Huber fire retardant additives plant nearing completion

The expansion to the German-based fine precipitated hydrate plant is expected to increase production capacity by 20%.

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Infrastructure

Composites 4.0: digital assistants, edge computing and the future of smart factories

Plataine reviews developments and discusses where composites manufacturing is headed.

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