Ginger Gardiner

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor

Autoclave

Increasing access to AFP

Addcomposites is democratizing composites manufacturing by leasing a low-cost toolhead that turns any robot into an automated fiber placement machine.

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Sustainability

FiberCore Europe partners with Sustainable Infrastructure Systems to produce composite bridges in Australia

Patented technology used in more than 900 bridges and lock gates worldwide will have up to 40% recycled plastic by 2021.

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Thermoplastics

A new definition of composites?

Nucleation and control of crystallinity plus aspect ratio creates new plastic and ceramic composites with tailored performance.

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FIBRESHIP demonstrates ship hull section built in fiber-reinforced composite

EU-funded project aims to replace steel in ships, reducing weight, fuel consumption and carbon emissions.

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Sustainability

Henkel partnering in SYMPA research project for 3D-printed composites in automotive

Goals include new materials, printing and post-processing technologies for durable fiber reinforcement using stereolithography (SLA) and digital light processing (DLP).

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Marine

Advancing additive manufacturing to exploit anisotropy

Anisoprint posits continuous fiber composites, not metals, as the material for optimized AM structures.

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Consumer

Injection-forming for high-performance, unitized thermoplastic structures

Combining braided tape, overmolding and form-locking, herone produces one-piece, high-torque gear-driveshaft as demonstrator for broad range of applications.

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Automotive

Addcomposites introduces plug & play AFP/ATL for cost-effective composites manufacturing

New AFP-XS turns any robotic arm into an automated composites manufacturing system.

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Glass Fibers

Magnetic 3D printing the next generation of tailored composites

Fortify uses magnetic fields and digital light processing to produce tailored microstructures for high-resolution, 3D printed composite parts — and enables the next generation of multiscale, multifunctional composite metamaterials.

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Prepregs

EU project “ComMUnion” develops industrial process for hybrid metal and polymer-matrix composites

Laser textured steel is joined with continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic stiffeners using  laser-assisted tape placement for joined structure without adhesives.

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Wind/Energy

Aditya Birla Chemicals acquires recyclable thermoset technology from Connora Technologies

The acquisition of Connora's Recyclamine technology enables end-of-life recyclability and zero-waste manufacturing to global epoxy customers.

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Carbon Fibers

HUESKER develops W8SVR Neolaminate, refinement of organosheets

Continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) composite offers up to 20% less weight or 35% higher flexural stiffness.

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