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Product Roundup: September 2019

CW’s roundup of new products for the composites industry – the past month has seen innovations from Airtech, Ashland, CoreTech, Johns Manville, Karl Mayer, KraussMaffei, PRF Composite Materials, RTP Co., SHD Composite Materials and Zetec.

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Strain measurement in composites testing

Columnist Dan Adams explores the most important considerations and most common methods for strain measurement.

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Feature

Into the Hyperloop

The role of composites in the fifth mode of transport.

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Aerospace

Has composites innovation reached "the stall?"

Columnist Dale Brosius reflects that composites innovation, like meat partway through the smoking process, has reached a temporary stalling point. 

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ATL/AFP

Addcomposites' virtual demo on how to make an AFP composite laminate

Readers are walked through how to program and operate the AFP-XS plug and play system.

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Ketones

Download today's news from CAMX: Thursday, Sept. 26

CW is reporting live from CAMX 2019 this week in Anaheim, California. Read today’s show headlines, including show highlights, the first CAMX additive manufacturing workshop and CAMX news from Solvay and PolyOne.

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Ketones

Rocket module manufactured with in-situ consolidation survives first flight test

A carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (CFRP) module developed at the Technical University of Munich survived its first launch — and a “hard landing” — in March.

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CAMX

Download today's news from CAMX: Wednesday, Sept. 25

CW is reporting live from CAMX 2019 this week in Anaheim, California. Read today’s show headlines including a recap of the keynote speaker, award winners and more.

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Aerospace

Fiberglass industrial fan manufacturer builds on tradition

Collaboration produces large diameter low noise application composite axial flow fan.

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Automotive

Automated joining of hybrid metal-thermoplastic composite structures

The FlexHyJoin production cell combines surface structuring, induction and laser joining and NDT for automotive mass production.

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CAMX Awards, ACE nominees span material, process types

There are two parts competitions at CAMX, the CAMX Awards and ACMA’s Awards in Composites Excellence (ACE).

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Download today's news from CAMX 2019: Tuesday, Sept. 24

CW is reporting live from CAMX 2019 this week in Anaheim, California. Read today’s show headlines about the keynote speaker from Protolabs and award nominees.

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