July 2024 Issue

July

July 2024

Digital Edition
Plant tour: Aernnova Composites, Toledo and Illescas, Spain
Cover Story

Plant tour: Aernnova Composites, Toledo and Illescas, Spain

RTM and ATL/AFP high-rate production sites feature this composites and engineering leader’s continued push for excellence and innovation for future airframes.

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Features

Featured articles from the July 2024 issue of CompositesWorld

“Structured air” TPS safeguards composite structures
Aerospace

“Structured air” TPS safeguards composite structures

Powered by an 85% air/15% pure polyimide aerogel, Blueshift’s novel material system protects structures during transient thermal events from -200°C to beyond 2400°C for rockets, battery boxes and more.

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Achieving composites innovation through collaboration
Materials

Achieving composites innovation through collaboration

Stephen Heinz, vice president of R&I for Syensqo delivered an inspirational keynote at SAMPE 2024, highlighting the significant role of composite materials in emerging technologies and encouraging broader collaboration within the manufacturing community. 

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Composites GBI shows faster activity contraction
Economics

Composites GBI shows faster activity contraction

The total index reading backed down in May from its anticipated expansion, contracting again to land at 46.8.

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FiberJoints innovates composite bolted joints for reduced weight, cost and maintenance

FiberJoints innovates composite bolted joints for reduced weight, cost and maintenance

Novel reinforcing patch uses braided sleeve to boost the load-carrying capacity of composite bolted joints.

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Pull-wound carbon fiber poles enable lightweight, compact, rigid emergency stretcher
Carbon Fibers

Pull-wound carbon fiber poles enable lightweight, compact, rigid emergency stretcher

Based on military feedback, Epsilon Composite developed an optimized, foldable stretcher that combines telescopic pull-wound carbon fiber tubes.

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SMC composites progress BinC solar electric vehicles

SMC composites progress BinC solar electric vehicles

In an interview with one of Aptera’s co-founders, CW sheds light on the inspiration behind the crowd-funded solar electric vehicle, its body in carbon (BinC) and how composite materials are playing a role in its design.  

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The future of quartz and oxide fibers at Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramic Composites

The future of quartz and oxide fibers at Saint-Gobain Advanced Ceramic Composites

New business builds on 100-year legacy in quartz, prepares for growth, while starting production of oxide fibers to meet increased demand for CMC by aerospace and industrial sectors.

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The next-generation single-aisle: Implications for the composites industry
Aerospace

The next-generation single-aisle: Implications for the composites industry

While the world continues to wait for new single-aisle program announcements from Airbus and Boeing, it’s clear composites will play a role in their fabrication. But in what ways, and what capacity?

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