Ginger Gardiner

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor

Thermoplastics

CompositesWorld, ITHEC partner for 2024 event

Leading thermoplastic composites event prepares for seventh conference featuring latest developments, leading players and panel discussion on energy transition hosted by CW.

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Biomaterials

KCARBON and KIST develop lyocell/PLA/wood biocomposites

Initial demonstration in furniture shows properties two to nine times higher than plywood, OOA molding for uniquely shaped components.

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Bio-based SiC ceramics from wood polymer composites

Austrian research institute Wood K plus makes 95% silicon carbide ceramics more sustainable (>85% bio/recycled content), enables 3D shapes via extrusion, injection molding and 3D printing.

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Hi-Temp Resins

Plant tour: Daher Shap’in TechCenter and composites production plant, Saint-Aignan-de-Grandlieu, France

Co-located R&D and production advance OOA thermosets, thermoplastics, welding, recycling and digital technologies for faster processing and certification of lighter, more sustainable composites.

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Natural Fibers

DITF Denkendorf advances sustainable carbon fibers, oxide fibers for CMC and more

The German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research are targeting more sustainable carbon fiber via low-pressure stabilization and bio-based precursors, and working with Saint-Gobain to commercialize oxide ceramic fibers for CMC.

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Marine

BeSpline wins IBEX Innovation Award, announces partnership with Boston Boatworks for Shaped Foam Kits

CAD-driven fabrication uses adaptive mold technology for lighter, stronger, higher quality boat structures without time and cost of building a mold while drastically reducing core fitting time for yacht builders.

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Epoxies

Composite molding compound replaces Invar for lightweight small satellite structures

Patz Materials and Technologies and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory developed a new monolithic optics housing with 80% less weight, near-zero CTE and the high-volume manufacturing required for commercial space.

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RATH works with InVECOF project to mature oxide fiber production in Europe for CMC

Producer of Altra ceramic staple fibers aims to scale up continuous Ox fibers to compete with Nextel 610 and 720, and with its partners, offer improved fibers with creep resistance for higher temperature CMC applications.

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Defense

Purdue researchers develop new type of intelligent architected materials

Phase transforming cellular materials (PXCM) exhibit intelligent responses to external forces and stimuli, can dissipate energy to avoid damage and are being developed for transportation, military and other applications that can use composites.

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Hexagon Purus opens new composite H2 cylinder manufacturing hub in Kassel, Germany

Third new manufacturing facility for Hexagon Purus this year and second dedicated to carbon fiber-reinforced composite pressure vessels for H2 storage.

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Aerospace

A new era for ceramic matrix composites

CMC is expanding, with new fiber production in Europe, faster processes and higher temperature materials enabling applications for industry, hypersonics and New Space.

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Digitization

Next-gen composites manufacturing: Combining material, machine and mold cavity data with analytics

Using a sensor, an edge device and machine learning software, sensXPERT sees into processes and is improving quality and cutting scrap, cycle time and energy use for composites customers like ZF and Carbon Revolution.

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