Feb. 4th, 2020: Composite reinforcement company Chomarat Group has been named as a finalist in the JEC Innovation Awards in the Maritime Transportation and Shipbuilding category...
Shape-morphing living composites
Feb. 4th, 2020: In a recent study published on Science Advances, L. K. Rivera-Tarazona and a research team in the departments of bioengineering and biological sciences at the University of Texas, Dallas, U.S., established a new method to explore genetic networks in the lab. They created living synthetic composites ...
Materials Sciences Expands Facility in Greenville County, South Carolina
Feb. 4th, 2020: Materials Sciences, an engineering services and manufacturing company, plans to expand operations in Greenville County, South Carolina. The $4.2 million investment is expected to create 34 new jobs...
A New Solution for Difficult-to-Bond Materials: Introducing the 3M VHB Tape LSE Series
Feb. 4th, 2020: The new 3M VHB Tape LSE Series eliminates design challenges associated with difficult-to-stick-to composites and low surface energy plastics with the strong, durable, fast and easy assembly of 3M VHB Tape.
Axiom opens High-Temperature Composites Center
Feb. 4th, 2020: Axiom Materials continues to strengthen its leadership in the field of ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) and related high-temperature composite products. The company has recently invested in a new 3500 square metre facility for the development, analysis, and production of ceramic matrix composite materials.
AIMPLAS takes part in project to help replace metal railway parts with lighter composite materials
Jan. 24th, 2020: AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, successfully participated in the recently completed European MAT4RAIL project, which involved developing new materials and components to design the railway of the future....
NASA to help fund AnalySwift, Purdue technology shown to speed design of composite deployable structures
Jan. 24th, 2020: WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – An innovation that helps speed the design of fishing rods, skis and cell phone electronics soon will help NASA do its work in space.
Mitsubishi Chemical to Acquire European Carbon Fiber Prepreg Manufacturer
Jan. 24th, 2020: Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation (MCC; Head Office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Masayuki Waga) announced that it will acquire a German Carbon Fiber Prepreg Manufacturer, c-m-p GmbH (c-m-p; Head Office: Heinsberg, Germany) through its subsidiary, Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Material...
New-found method could simplify aerospace-grade composite manufacturing
Jan. 24th, 2020: A new method using carbon nanotubes to create aerospace-grade composites without an autoclave has been developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Composites research paves the way for aerospace weaving
Jan. 24, 2020: The pioneering application of X-ray imaging technology could lead to the wider adoption of high-specification composite materials, in particular woven textile composites, according to a research group at Manchester University.
Researchers gain control over internal structure of self-assembled composite materials
Jan. 24, 2020: Composites made from self-assembling inorganic materials are valued for their unique strength and thermal, optical and magnetic properties. However, because self-assembly can be difficult to control, the structures formed can be highly disordered, leading to defects during large-scale production. Researchers have now developed a templating technique
Composite Materials Prepare for Takeoff
Jan. 24th, 2020: The automotive and aerospace industries are ready ramp up their production of composite parts, and Solvay has the material and technology to help them achieve that – namely fast-cure prepregs and Double Diaphragm Forming (DDF). The Group’s Composite Materials team in the UK is showing them how it can be done, pioneering the way in the industrialisation of cost-effective composite parts.
SGL wins contract for composite battery enclosures
Jan 13th, 2020: Following the production of first prototypes of battery enclosures for a Chinese automotive manufacturer in 2018, SGL Carbon has now received a substantial contract from a North American automaker for high-volume serial production of carbon and glass fibre-based composite top and bottom layers for battery enclosures.
Composite Enhancing Nano-Barrier Could Change Spacecraft Construction
Jan 13th, 2020: Carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) composite has been used for space missions for years and continues to be tested for further applications. Focusing on its limited use due to its water absorption rates, researchers at Airbus Defense and Space and the University of Surrey have created a layered ultralight, nanoscale barrier that could change how future spacecraft are built.
Griffith University Racing Team Succeeds with Composites
Jan 13th, 2020: The Griffith University Racing Team car, known as GRT19 Bronte, was designed and engineered by students at Griffith with the help of the ATL Composites team to compete in the Formula SAE Australasia.
Carbon nanotube film produces aerospace-grade composites with no need for huge ovens or autoclaves
Jan 13th, 2020: MIT engineers have developed a method to produce aerospace-grade composites without the enormous ovens and pressure vessels. The technique may help to speed up the manufacturing of airplanes and other large, high-performance composite structures, such as blades for wind turbines.
A global festival for composites
Jan 7th, 2020: JEC World, the global trade show dedicated to composite materials is all set to take place at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Centre, Paris from March 3-5, 2020.
EnerDynamic Hybrid Technologies – Axia Materials Announce Strategic Partnership
Jan 7th, 2020: NIAGARA FALLS, ON and SEOUL, KOREA / ACCESSWIRE / January 6, 2020 / EnerDynamic Hybrid Technologies Corp. (TSXV:EHT) ("EHT") is pleased to announce it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Axia Materials Co. Ltd ("AXIA"), based in Seoul Korea. AXIA has been in the composite materials business for over 20 years and has built and developed...
Fortress producing bamboo-plastic composite decks
Jan 6th, 2020: Garland, Texas-based Fortress Building Products quietly entered the wood-plastic composites decking market in 2016 with a coextruded bamboo-capped board that it says is 40 percent lighter yet twice as strong as the competition. Three years later, the privately held company has ramped up U.S. and Canadian promotion of what it describes as a first-of-its-kind WPC decking...
Directional forces: A look at Anisoprint’s composite 3D printing technology
Jan 6th, 2020: Anisoprint currently offers the Composer A4, with a build platform of 297 x 210 x 145 mm, and the Composer A3, with a build platform of 420 x 297 x 210 mm. Both machines are equipped with two spools of lament being fed through a single, heated dual nozzle extruder. On the right, a spool of reinforced fibre passes through a cutter and...
One-piece, one-cure, infused carbon fiber wheel is ready to roll
Jan 6th, 2020: ESE Carbon Co.’s new carbon fiber wheel uses tailored fiber placement and custom presses to minimize waste and improve scalability.