Ginger Gardiner

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor

Defense

Composites Europe notes process chain cooperations are accelerating composites industry growth

Composites Europe this year highlighted the coordinated processing and production processes being developed in the marketplace.

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Aerospace

AVK presents its 2018 Innovation Awards

The 2018 AVK Innovation Awards were presented at the International Composites Congress (ICC) on Nov 5, chosen from more than 50 submissions.

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Automation

Automating composites production for ease of use and affordability

Schmidt & Heinzemann innovates composites workcells with German quality and small-company flexibility — “modules customized per product and program is the key.”

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Epoxies

New technologies and markets at World of Filament Winding event

Nov. conference features winding developments with robots, automated fiber placement, additive manufacturing and emerging markets.

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Aerospace

CAMX 2018: Second look, more new developments

Curved pultrusion for automotive, Smart Susceptors for primary structure repairs and Huntsman advances leaf springs for trucks, carbon wheels for automotive, “thin-ply” ailerons with Airbus and Nanocomp Technologies.

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Pushing EVs forward

Multifunctional chassis design and novel composites processes enable lighter, longer-range, safer electric vehicles.

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Infrastructure

Filament winding, reinvented

Robots and digital technology deliver speed plus larger, more complex parts, while generative 3D winding obviates mandrels and waste for automotive applications.

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Continuous Fiber Manufacturing blurs the line between 3D printing and AFP

Continuous fiber manufacturing (CFM) is a 3D printing/continuous fiber deposition process patented by moi composites.

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Pultrusion

CAMX 2018: Big changes coming

3D printing goes thermoset, pultrusion aims at automotive, a polyester resin with Tg>250°C and much more from the Dallas exhibit floor.

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UMaine Composites Center receives $500,000 to help boat builders incorporate 3D printing technology

Technology cluster will help Maine boatbuilders explore how large-scale 3D printing with wood plastic composites can provide a competitive advantage. 

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Epoxies

IBEX 2018: Growth, 3D printing and thermoplastic composites in the marine industry

Sustainability was the fourth trend, including recycling end-of-life fiberglass boats.

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Wind/Energy

Seemann Composites Inc. acquires Materials Sciences Corporation

Composites process innovator and materials engineering innovator formally combine forces.

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