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Automotive

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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Carbon Fibers

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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Sustainability

Tackling the traceability of composite materials

Have you ever looked outside an airplane window during in-flight turbulence and wondered how strong the wings really are and how much load they can take?

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Wind/Energy

A challenge well suited for the composites industry

I believe climate change is at least partly caused by the increase in CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels.

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Editorial

Looking forward to the rescheduled CAMX 2017

Leading the charge vs. follow those who lead the charge. 

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Carbon Fibers

Volvo performance brand features carbon fiber bodies

Volvo launches its Polestar performance brand, the first vehicle of which, the hybrid Polestar 1, will feature a carbon fiber body structure. The Polestar brand is launch with three vehicles, all either hybrid or all-electric.

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Construction

Apple Store in Chicago features massive carbon fiber roof

The 111-by-98-ft carbon fiber composite roof is one of the largest single architectural structures in the world.

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Automotive

Automated preforming: Intelligent automation in pick-and-place systems

Layups go industrial with hand-like grippers that can fold fabric or prepreg into corners and robot-mounted cameras that inspect from fabric to cut plies to fiber gaps in final preforms.

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Weaving

Armor Update: Reinforced elastomeric composite blast barrier

A new, flexible, lightweight, portable debris shield holds promise for protecting building occupants in military zones.

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Wind/Energy

Plant Tour: FiberCore Europe, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

From debond-proof bridges to cost-saving infrastructure rehab, InfraCore technology is establishing composites as the fourth major construction material.

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