Grace Nehls

Grace Nehls Senior Managing Editor

JEC

Global composites industry is reunited at JEC World 2023

Dynamic business activities, knowledge sharing and technology displays on the show floor were backed by 40,200+ professional visits from more than 106 countries.

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Colorado State professor earns NSF award for composites 3D printing

Mechanical engineering professor Mostafa Yourdkhani’s novel in-situ printing and curing techniques for composite materials, including carbon fiber, earned him the Faculty Early Career Development Award.

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Pressure Vessels

Gazelle Wind Power acquires naval engineering firm F. Carceller

Spanish-based engineering firm will accelerate technical development and innovation activity of Gazelle’s floating offshore wind platform.

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Wind/Energy

Metyx signs multi-year agreement with global wind blade supplier

Supply of E-glass, carbon fiber, core and fabric kit, consumables and component to generate €100 million turnover for the Metyx Group.

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Glass Fibers

Ilium FLEXmat fiberglass is suitable for pultrusion processes

Latest long chopped glass fiber reinforcement technology enables high temperature exposure, material stretching and chemical resistance, making it a safer cleaner option for pultrusion manufacturing.

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Hydrogen Storage

Cygnet Texkimp joins U.K. project for hydrogen-powered Ford E-Transit development

Named a technology partner for the three-year FCVGen2.0 project, Cygnet’s role is to optimize the composites recycling machinery and process for EOL composite hydrogen tank reclaim and reuse. 

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Recycling

Thomas Tison, nlcomp head biocomposite ecoFoiler development

The fully recyclable, 3.80-meter foiling dingy concept, as demoed at JEC World 2023, sets the bar for watercraft that are accessible to a broad spectrum of sailors.

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Wisk Aero, Japan Airlines bring autonomous eVTOL services to Japan

A new partnership lays the groundwork for future Wisk air operations in the Asia-Pacific region using its four-passenger, sixth-generation composite aircraft.

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Metyx Composites expands Mansia campus facility space

Metyx Manisa retains two additional campuses added to existing facilities — 10,000 and 6,000 square meters, respectively — to grow its capacity and increase service levels to local and European customers.

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Aerospace

Cirrus Aircraft breaks ground on new facility at McKinney Airport 

The 45,000-square-foot expansion at Cirrus McKinney adds to the general aviation company’s service and storage hangar capacity, flight simulation and customer space.

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Lilium receives capital raise, enters Lilium Jet for wind tunnel testing

Powered test campaign at the German-Dutch Wind Tunnels (DNW) facility in Marknesse, Netherlands, and up to $250 million in capital raise advance the eVTOL company toward its first type-conforming aircraft.

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Recycling

Fairmat, Decathlon partner for environmentally friendly composite sports equipment

Fairmat is deploying its low-impact virtuous production chain for the production of recycled carbon fiber, to be used to produce Decathlon’s Kuikma padel rackets starting in 2024.

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