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Aerospace

Aviation’s big US show: Oshkosh 2017 highlights

The 2017 edition of the Experimental Aircraft Assn.’s (EAA) AirVenture airshow event, held in Oshkosh, WI, US, from July 24 – 30, was another blockbuster.

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Aerospace

Episode 8: Ryan Huth, GE Aviation

Ryan Huth, manager of ceramic matrix composites (CMC) production at GE Aviation’s Asheville, NC facility, talks about CMC technology, GE Aviation's CMC parts production and the future of both.

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Automotive

NASCAR to debut new composite body at Richmond Raceway

XFINITY Series teams to have flange-fit composite body option in 2017.

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Molds/Tools

CAMX 2017 preview: DUNA-USA

DUNA-USA Inc. (Baytown, TX, US) is debuting its BLACK CORINTHO HT 800 high- temperature tooling board, which offers low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) at temperatures up to 400°F, coupled with high thermal conductivity for reducing oven and autoclave cycle times.

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Out of Autoclave

CAMX 2017 preview: Copps Industries/CompositeTechs

Copps Industries (Mequon, WI, US) and CompositeTechs LLC (Amesbury, MA, US) are emphasizing work they did together to promote development of a new series of high-performance epoxy formulations.

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CAMX

CAMX 2017 preview: Applied Graphene Materials

Applied Graphene Materials UK Ltd. (AGM, Cleveland, UK) is featuring its synthesized nanoplatelets (A-GNPs).

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Carbon Fibers

CAMX 2017 preview: A. Schulman

A. Schulman Inc. (Fairlawn, OH, US) is introducing its new Quantum LYTEX SF series of styrene-free, epoxy-based sheet molding compounds

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Automation

Automated Preforming, Part 4: Drapability Testing

Textechno discusses how this test works, the new German test standard and its benefits for composites

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Headed to CAMX 2017? Here's some of what you will find

CAMX 2017 is coming up, Sept. 11-14 in Orlando, FL, US. If you are headed to the show, CompositesWorld has gathered technology and product previews from several exhibitors to help you understand what you can expect to find at the event.

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Focus on Design

Lightweighting speed into CNC machining

Drawing on a long history in composites manufacturing and CNC machining, this innovator turns to carbon fiber composites to reduce gantry component weight and increase shaping efficiency.

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Automation

KraussMaffei doubles pultrusion speed and continued developing composites processes for large series production

New iPul pultrusion system doubles production speed while intelligent automation cuts cycle time in FiberForm and RTM processes.

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Recycling

Episode 7: Recycling composites on the CW Talks podcast

Frazer Barnes, managing director of ELG Carbon Fibre (Coseley, UK), joins CW Talks: The Composites Podcast to discuss his and his company’s work developing carbon fiber recycling technologies, and the fiber reinforcements that result. 

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