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Aerospace

Gardner Business Index at 55.2 in March 2017

As the year’s first quarter closed out, the trend was growth and expectations were that growth would continue.

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The automotive industry’s “killer app”?

Automotive is king, and the killer automotive app will be the multi-material and all-carbon-fiber B-pillar.

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Out of Autoclave

Process automation: A model response to Trumponomics and Brexit?

Offshoring can’t go on forever and a significant trend toward reshoring is probably inevitable.

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Composites 4.0

CompositesWorld's story planning journey

Automotive materials and process innovation in the driver’s seat.

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Video: Six-axis robotic arm 3D printing glass fiber composites

Atropos is a new six-axis robotic arm that was developed in collaboration with KUKA and Owens Corning.

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Ford assesses SMC/prepreg suspension knuckle to replace metal

Ford Motor Co.'s Dunton Technical Centre in the UK has developed an SMC/compression molded carbon fiber replacement for a steel suspension knuckle. The part has production viability.

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Aerospace

3D printed tools are in production at Dassault Falcon Jet

The trend of employing polymeric additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing for composite tooling is growing.

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Focus on Design

Collaboration produces winning paddleboard

Design, and design for manufacturability, come together in this racing SUP for one-off and serial production.

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Automotive

Accelerating materials insertion: Where do virtual allowables fit?

In the quest to reduce the time and cost for aerocomposite design allowables development, will conventional physical testing and virtual testing go head-to-head or work side-by-side?

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Pressure Vessels

Curved pultrusion? No longer an oxymoron

Radius-Pultrusion process offers linear or curved profiles.

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Weaving

Ceramic matrix composites: Hot engine solution

Disruptive designs for composites operation in 1093°C zones.

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Aerospace

Commercialization of CMCs and developments for next-gen performance

As industrial production of parts begins, new developments offer promise for higher-temperature and more damage-tolerant ceramic matrix composite (CMCs).

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