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Sustainability

Episode 12: Geoff Wood, Composites Recycling Technology Center

Geoff Wood, founder, fellow and vice president of innovation at the Composites Recycling Technology Center (CRTC) in Port Angeles, Wash., discusses CRTC, the composites recycling market and more. Geoff will be moderating a panel on composites recycling at CompositesWorld’s Carbon Fiber conference Nov. 28-30 in Charleston, South Carolina. 

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Adhesives

Audi R8 seat wall: A prelude to production

Audi takes it upon itself to design and develop carbon fiber composite structures that, the company hopes, will enter high-rate production.

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CompositesWorld needs you

CompositesWorld is launching the CW Operations Survey, designed to help us (and you) understand where and how the composites industry is evolving. Please take a few minutes to complete the survey.

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Carbon Fibers

SGL offers high-performance organosheet and thermoplastics for overmolding

“Thermoplastic toolbox” includes LFT, UD tapes, woven semi-finished sheets and carbon/glass hybrids in PA and polyolefins for automotive and other high-volume applications.

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Pultrusion

CW Talks: How carbon fiber beat out steel in elevator cabling

CW Talks: The Composites Podcast learns from KONE’s Steve Gonzalez how pultruded carbon fiber UltraRope was developed to help move elevators up and down in the world’s tallest buildings.

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Automation

CFRP bests steel in precision ball joints

Near-zero backlash in bearings and automation components.  

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Carbon Fibers

Carbon-Kevlar Hinge

Besting metal hardware in weight, thickness, 3X load capacity and 1 million fatigue cycles with no degradation.

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Carbon Fibers

Composite chef’s knife a chef d’oeuvre

A while back I blogged about a luxurious version of a champagne flute, via carbon fiber and gold. The designer, Ragnar Friberg, is at it again, this time with a composite take on the chef’s knife.

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Highlights: SPE ACCE 2017

The Society of Plastics Engineers Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibiton (SPE ACCE), held Sept. 6-8 in Novi, MI, US, remains the composites industry’s go-to event for the latest on technology and equipment for automotive composites design, tooling and fabrication.

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Construction

New architectural composite hits the market

NewBrick by Dryvit (West Warwick, RI, US) is a new composite brick product, meant to substitute for venerable fired clay bricks and, the company says, revolutionize the installation of brick veneer façades and exteriors.

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Construction

Episode 11: Steve Gonzalez, KONE

Steve Gonzalez, director of the major projects unit, Americas, at elevator manufacturer KONE, details the development of UltraRope, a pultruded carbon fiber cabling system for elevators. If you want to learn more, Gonzalez is giving a presentation about UltraRope at CompositesWorld’s 2017 Carbon Fiber conference, Nov. 28-30 in Charleston, SC, US. 

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Economics

Composites Fabricating Index at 55.0 in September

Registering 55.0 for September, the Gardner Business Index (GBI): Composites Fabricating added another strong monthly reading to an already impressive 2017 for the US composites industry.

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