Workforce Development

Aurora Flight Sciences expands headquarters and opens new Aerospace and Autonomy Center at MIT

Independent Boeing subsidiary will add robotics and integration facility in Manassas, VA and lease 100,000 ft2 in new MIT building.

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Aerospace

Quickstep to produce F-35 flare housings

The carbon fiber component manufacturer will receive funding to produce composite housings for an F-35 Lightning II countermeasure flare.

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Automotive

Reinforced phenolics: Still disruptive after all these years

Fiber-reinforced phenolics could be a key enabler of a coming automotive industry disruption.

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Filament Winding

Cygnet Texkimp and University of Manchester develop 3D winding technology

The machine is based on a 9-Axis robotic winding concept and winds carbon fiber into lightweight parts for automotive and aerospace markets.

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Sustainable thermoplastics and additive manufacturing alliance forms in Colorado

Vartega, the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association and a group of industry and academic partners have founded an Advanced Materials and Additive Manufacturing Infrastructure Development and Education (AMIDE) Alliance.

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Out of Autoclave

Spirit AeroSystems to build Scotland-based R&D Complex

The new facility’s efforts will focus on infusion processes for composites materials, part handling, assembly automation, rapid prototyping and virtual/augmented reality. 

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Editorial

Teamwork, collaboration, creative tension, innovation and the future

CW Editor Jeff Sloan shares insights into innovation and collaboration from a selection from his own summer reading list, The Innovators by Walter Isaacson.

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Henkel opens Innovation and Interaction Center for 3D Printing

The center will be Henkel’s European regional hub for technology presentations, demonstrations, training and testing, as well as customer service for 3D Printing solutions.

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Automotive

University of Bologna, CMS team up for American Solar Challenge

The Emilia 4 solar car is based on the use of a series of high-tech features including advanced materials such as carbon fiber laminates.

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Automotive

CSP Van Wert Facility turns 40

Continental Structural Plastics compounding facility in Van Wert is celebrating 40 years in business.

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