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Editorial

Automotive: On the fence

When it comes to the debate about composites vs. metals in car manufacture, the post-recession automotive industry could as easily fall into old habits as tip over into new possibilities.

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Sustainability

Unmanned Systems North America 2010

Growing trade event underscores composites’ continuing vital role in unmanned systems for aviation and marine applications.

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Ketones

High-Performance Resins 2010 Highlights

Inaugural conference for the advanced resins research crowd updates formulators and processors on the latest developments.

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Transverse flexure testing

Dr. Donald Adams examines test methods for determining the transverse tensile strength of a composite formed from unidirectional plies.

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Epoxies

Medical applications: A healthy market

Composites make advances in devices for medical diagnosis and treatments that promote healing and help return patients to active lives.

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Out of Autoclave

Mold heating study proves pressurized water system

Westminster Solutions and SINGLE Temperature Controls partner to create an RTM cell that heats the mold more efficiently with pressurized water rather than with a conventional oil heating system..

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Pressure Vessels

Marine composites: A new dawn?

Boatbuilders fared worse than automakers during the recent recessionary storm. As the dark clouds dispel, there is some light on the horizon.

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Adhesives

SPE's ACCE 2010 Highlights

The Society of Plastics Engineers’ Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition completed its first decade with a stellar slate of keynotes and papers.

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Sustainability

Politics and subsidies

Composite Technology's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan considers the implications for the U.S. composites industry of political calls to end the Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit for wind energy and other sustainable forms of energy production.

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Out of Autoclave

IBEX 2010 Highlights

The world’s largest watercraft construction exhibition navigates new waters to its first inland rendezvous.

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Wind/Energy

Composites tap tide energy

Composites-enabled tidal stream energy projects lead the way as new forms of hydrokinetic power generation move toward commercialization.

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Automotive

Improved intumescent: Topcoat allows better laminate performance

Applied to a cured laminate surface, a new intumescent topcoat provides Wright Composites (Galgorm, Ballymena, Northern Ireland) a passive fire barrier that permits the use of a laminating resin with less fire-resistant filler, making possible a tougher part.

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