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New Products: February 2019

CW’s roundup of new products for the composites industry – the past month has seen innovations from BTG Labs, Entec, Epoxies Etc., Heatcon, Interplastic, Kent Pultrusion, L&L Special Furnace, PolyOne, Roth, Rucks Maschinenbau, SABIC and Stratasys.

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Glass Fibers

Fire retardant prepregs enable Museum of the Future's 3D façade panels

Notus Composites to supply fire retardant prepregs for the 3D façade panels of the Museum of the Future in Dubai. 

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Marine

JEC World 2019 Preview

The JEC World trade show and conference, the largest composites event in the world, will be held at the Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, March 12-14, 2019.

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Episode 23: Wiener Mondesir, Arevo

Wiener Mondesir, co-founder and chief technology officer at Arevo, discusses continuous fiber use in additive manufacturing.

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Autoclave

Thermwood and Bell collaborate on 3D-printed helicopter blade mold

Thermwood employed its new 60-mm melt core technology to additively manufacture the autoclave-capable, carbon fiber-reinforced tool.

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Wind/Energy

A change in the wind

Long-time CW staff depart, new faces emerge.

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Pressure Vessels

Composites recycling — no more excuses

Columnist Dale Brosius outlines six actionable levels of composites recycling that fabricators should follow.

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Sustainability

Measuring and improving fire resistance in composites

Sidebar to CW’s Feb 2019 feature article, this quick review of fire tests for composites also provides more details about intriguing new material developments.

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Resins

Making better composite bikes, Part 2

My latest blog, about HIA Velo bicycles, concerned the use of high molecular weight polypropylene (HMWPP) combined with carbon fiber for more durable bicycle frames. But there’s more to cover on this topic: bicycle rims (wheels) that combine carbon and HMWPP for greater toughness.

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Aerospace

Going discontinuous, for continuous improvement

The HiPerDiF (High Performance Discontinuous Fibre) project is exploring an alternate way of producing high-performance carbon fiber composites: start with discontinuous, rather than continuous fibers.

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Ketones

Carbon fiber will enable air taxi eVTOLs

Aircraft and autos have indeed faced CFRP production woes, but new tech opens door for both.

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Trends

MTorres announces new CEO

Luis Pérez Oliva has been announced as the new CEO of MTorres.

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