CW Blog

Micro transportation: BMW personal mover concept

Recycled composites, additive manufacturing and 3D printing enhance form, function of fun-to-drive personal transport.

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Thermoplastic overmolded thermosets, 2-minute cycle, one cell

Adhesive-free, functionalized hybrid composites enabled by industry-first, integrated molding cell.

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2019 North American International Auto Show: An unclear future for autocomposites?

Columnist Dale Brosius reflects on the insights — and lack thereof — he gained into current and upcoming autocomposites at 2019’s North American International Auto Show (NAIAS).

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Consumer

Index sees gradual start to 2019 on slow new orders growth

The Composites Business Index moved lower in the first month of 2019, with slowed growth in new orders.

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Moving continuous-fiber 3D printing into production

With patents proliferating and production applications emerging, 3D printing with continuous fiber reinforcement is poised for significant market growth.

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Pressure Vessels

Building confidence in recycled carbon fiber

Recycled carbon fiber is proving, increasingly, to be a cost-effective, environmentally sustainable composite solution for automotive and other high-volume applications.

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Hi-Temp Resins

Developing fire-resistant resins for composites

Ashland, Polynt-Reichhold and Scott Bader discuss chemistries, applications and future developments for FR composites.

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Consumer

Combining materials for better bicycles

Bicycle manufacturer HIA Velo combines composite materials to make its products more durable.

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Aerospace

Can the aerospace industry regain its ability to "try"?

TPI Composites’ Steve Nolet reflects on the strides that composites in the aerospace industry have made in the past fifty years, while also wondering if the industry could regain the space race era desire to test limits.

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Automotive

Would you like carbon fiber with that car?

The challenge for composites use to grow in the automotive industry is making the advantages of autocomposites appealing not only to OEMs, but to car consumers.

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Out of Autoclave

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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Carbon 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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