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If you didn't make it to CAMX, here's what you missed

CAMX 2018 was held Oct. 15-18 in Dallas, and if you could not attend this year, CompositesWorld did it for you. This compendium of written and video reporting from the show is designed to bring you up to speed on the new products, trends, presentations and more that the show had to offer.

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Construction

FRP panels used in two bridge renovations

Composite Advantage announced the completion of two new FRP bridge projects employing the its FiberSPAN fiber reinforced plastic composite deck material.

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Ketones

Cincinnati Inc.'s 3D printed trim tool for the 777X wing tip

Cincinnati Inc. explains the process for creating and their record-holding additively manufactured tool. 

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Adhesives

Automating composites production for ease of use and affordability

Schmidt & Heinzemann innovates composites workcells with German quality and small-company flexibility — “modules customized per product and program is the key.”

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Video: Manufacturing the Future With Composites

CAMX 2018 showcased a video giving attendees a glimpse of the future through the eyes of the composites industry and illustrating the way advanced materials are being used to improve our lives.

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Adhesives

Composite pressure vessels take on cryogenic temperatures

Several recent innovations involving composite high pressure tanks indicate a leap forward in pressure vessel technology.

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Aerospace

CAMX 2018 video review

CAMX 2018 offered a comprehensive glimpse of how materials and processing technologies are evolving for the global composites industry.

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Aerospace

Airline travel is poised to become faster

Numerous supersonic concepts were announced at the National Business Aviation Assn. (NBAA) annual meeting in Orlando in October, indicating it is a technology to watch.

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CAMX 2018: Second look, more new developments

Curved pultrusion for automotive, Smart Susceptors for primary structure repairs and Huntsman advances leaf springs for trucks, carbon wheels for automotive, “thin-ply” ailerons with Airbus and Nanocomp Technologies.

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A new look at the aerospace market

A recent study provides the aerospace industry a clearer look at its overall size.

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A highly-manufacturable, high-performance hang glider

A small Swiss company has developed a fast and easily deployed manufacturing method for producing a competition-worthy rigid hang glider.              

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Carbon fiber pickup box: A GM redux?

Didn’t GM release a truck with a composite pickup box years ago? The Pro-Tec box was molded in the same Huntington factory as the new CarbonPro version. So, what sets the new pickup box apart?

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