Ginger Gardiner

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor

Wind/Energy

New 250°F/120°C No Oven No Autoclave epoxy

Designed for room-temp infusion and filament winding with 2-hr no-heat-added cure or 15-30 min heated cure without post-cure for flexible processing of marine, industrial and energy structures.

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Marine

New low-cost, high-temp resins

MG Resins offer a suite of properties and processing that could potentially revolutionize sectors of the composites industry.

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Optimizing composite aerostructures production

Israel Aerospace Industries ramps production while reducing costs and improving quality thanks to integrated optimization software.

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Ketones

Materials Sciences Corp.: Multifunctional composites

MSC draws on four decades of experience and computer modeling expertise to develop novel composite materials with the potential to make a big impact.

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Nanomaterials

CNT-enhanced prepregs: commercial & production-capable

N12 Technologies’ NanoStitch and Surface Layer System (SLS) products are part of a new generation of nanomaterials aimed at delivering macro-level benefits in products produced at commercial scale.

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Carbon Fibers

Report from IBEX 2015

As always, IBEX supplied new products, processes and education, not only to boatbuilders, but to the composites industry overall.

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Consumer

Super "skinny" water skiff

Hell’s Bay Boatworks’ (Titusville, FL, US) latest design for a sportfishing customer does an unprecedented job of shaving weight and boosting toughness of flatboats for shallow-water operation.

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Wind/Energy

Reformable composite equestrian saddle

This carbon fiber/polyethylene terephthalate (PET) saddle tree features an intralaminate heating element that enables horse owners to reconfigure saddle shapes as horses grow, greatly reducing long-term saddle-fitting costs.

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Out of Autoclave

AVANCO: Driving the industrialization of CFRP structures

The AVANCO Group is producing high-quality CFRP parts into a wide array of applications from six production facilities in Germany and the US.

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Autoclave

Mini-autoclaves for visual carbon parts

This side story to CW's Plant Tour of Mubea Carbo Tech spotlights the company's mini-autoclaves.

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Automotive

HP-RTM: A means, not an end

This side story to CW's Plant Tour of Mubea Carbo Tech explores MCT's HP-RTM technologies.

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Weaving

Mubea Carbo Tech: High-quality auto composites go high-volume

Known for its precision and technical acumen in CFRP motorsports structures, MCT draws from its steel auto parts parent to push high-performance and industrial production to new plateaus.

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