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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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A complete paradigm shift in aircraft construction

With its new Torreswing automated system for mold-free, fastener-free composite fuselage and wing construction, MTorres aims to revolutionize aerostructure.

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Composites perform water rescue in high-speed rail tunnel

Channeling out the great quantities of water that flow into Spain’s Pajares railway tunnels in the Cantabria Mountain range required an award-winning composites innovation.

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Generative design and continuous 3D fiber deposition

Generative design replicates nature’s evolutionary approach by combining artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing to provide thousands of solutions to one engineering problem.

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Composites Pavilion at AIA 2018

New composite products for architecture/construction and student designs innovate how composites can be used.

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Episode 19: Tom Lemire, TFLemire Consulting

Tom Lemire is a composites industry consultant, which is the latest culmination of his career spanning back to 1969 with stints at Owens Corning, EDO Fiber Science, BASF, Toho and others.

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Slitting and kitting with Web Industries

CW Talks: The Composites Podcast catches up with Web Industrie’s Manish Patel and Ashley Graeber to talk tape slitting, kitting and cutting and more.

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New Products: June 2018

CW’s monthly roundup of new products for the composites industry – this month has seen innovations from Anaglyph, KraussMaffei, Hexagon and Hypertherm.

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Serving pultrusion customers in the digital age

Thanks to composites and robust engineering design, the life expectancy of two FRP footbridges in Scotland is expected to be more than 60 years.

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CSP Van Wert Facility turns 40

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

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Still working toward electric aircraft

A lot of research effort continues on electric propulsion for aircraft; many programs are aimed at developing viable battery-electric or solar propulsion for smaller aircraft. 

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Building an aircraft without molds or fasteners?

MTorres has a concept (TRL 6) with which aircraft will be built with minimal hand labor, without typical molds, without metallic fasteners, and without typical stringers as they are used today.

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