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Prepregs

Smarter molding with Smart Cauls

Spintech’s Smart Caul technology can be used to create internal mandrels, bladders for hollow parts or any irregular male layup tool shape involving a sharp angle or corner.

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Aerospace

JEC World 2018: The highlights

JEC World is the composites industry’s largest trade show and did not disappoint this year.

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Out of Autoclave

Wind blade spar caps: Pultruded to perfection?

Introduced to the market about five years ago, pultruded, carbon fiber-reinforced spar caps, incorporated as the reinforcing member of wind turbine rotor blades, are a byproduct of the evolution and increasing technological sophistication of the global wind energy industry.

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Out of Autoclave

Carbon fiber/epoxy in production boats

Scout Boats and now Hinckley Yachts showcase how demand for lighter, faster performance pushes materials and process change.

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Sustainability

Wind energy: A worldwide phenomenon

The wind energy industry is now operative in a genuinely worldwide marketplace.

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Wind/Energy

Service & repair: Optimizing wind power’s grid impact

As wind farms surge into the electrical mainstream, a fast-growing industry works to maximize the service lives of the composite blades that harvest the power of the wind.

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Aerospace

Seeking and finding support within the composites industry

Russell Emanis of Innegra Technologies cites those who have helped him during his composites career as inspiration for doing the same for others.

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Automation

JEC World 2018: Highlights

You will read more about what we discovered at JEC World 2018 in the coming weeks and months, but for now this is a quick review of some of the highlights from the world’s largest composites trade show.

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Automated Preforming, Part 6: Coriolis Composites

Pioneer in automated fiber placement (AFP) advances preforms for overmolded thermoplastic composites enabling production of one automotive part every 20 seconds.

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Construction

Composites – A neophyte’s quandary

An oft-cited concern is that new engineers are not exposed to composites as part of their materials science courses.

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Focus on Design

Wood/carbon composites for architecture

Innovative organic architecture enabled with wood/carbon laminates, software tools.

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Aerospace

Humanity Star satellite to begin early descent

Reflective carbon fiber satellite’s brief mission of “making people look up” will come to an end earlier than expected.

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