Wind/Energy

IACMI

Earth Stewardship: The future of composites development

Investing in Manufacturing Communities Partnerships holds great promise for advanced composites.

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Infrastructure

Composites industry is growing up—but hurdles still remain

It’s the era of when, not if, for the use of composite materials.

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Wind/Energy

Plant Tour: Aeris Energy — Wind blade economics

Side story to Plant Tour: Aeris Energy, Caucaia, Brazil.

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Wind/Energy

Material supplier, manufacturer marry in oil and gas

Victrex and Magma Global, which have a long history of cooperation in the oil and gas industry, inched closer together with Victrex taking a minority interest in the composite pipe manufacturer.

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Automotive

Hydraulic hybrids: Boosting fuel economy without batteries

Carbon fiber helps to lightweight hydraulic accumulators, increasing efficiency in hybrid vehicles and myriad other applications.

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Epoxies

CW Plant Tour: Aeris Energy, Caucaia, Brazil

This young, up-and-coming wind blade manufacturer was founded to serve the Brazilian wind energy market, but it’s poised to do much more.

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NDT

A better method of structural health monitoring?

Fibersail, a 2014 startup firm with offices in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and Leça de Palmeira, Portugal, aims to change the current state of real-time structural health/shape monitoring for composite structures — initially, for wind farm operators.

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Wind/Energy

Carbon Fiber 2016 Report

Conference speakers predict the outlook for carbon fiber supply and demand.

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Wind/Energy

Gardner Business Index at 49.4 in November

The overall Index showed double-digit growth for a third month in succession as future business expectations skyrocketed.

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Molds/Tools

Aerospace and industrial composites: Now on divergent paths?

The aerospace and industrial markets’ advanced composites challenges and their solutions will differ widely.

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