Grace Nehls

Grace Nehls Senior Managing Editor

Pressure Vessels

GE Haliade-X 14.7 MW-220 turbine obtains full DNV type certificate

Rigorous third-party certification process for Haliade-X has been successfully completed, making it what GE says is the largest wind turbine with a full type certification.  

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Pusan National University researchers introduce method to enhance thermally conductive composites

The proposed method has the potential to control the orientation of composite fillers without surface modification, improving thermal management.  

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Aerospace

Velocity Composites enters U.S. market with $100 million GKN Aerospace agreement

The composite material kits supplier expands into international markets with the development of its first U.S. manufacturing facility and a new agreement to support GKN aerostructures development.  

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Hydrogen Storage

H3 Dynamics, Carbonix to build Australia’s first hydrogen VTOL unmanned aircraft

Innovations in hydrogen-electric nacelles will be integrated into Carbonix’s existing fleet of composite aircraft to mature, further promote hydrogen adoption for long-distance, uncrewed flight in Australia.  

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Markforged Billerica manufacturing facility achieves ISO 9001:2015 certification

Certification reflects Markforged’s customer-centric culture built around quality and reliability in the additive manufacturing space.  

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Sustainability

European R&D project Bizente researches enzymatic technologies to recover thermosets

Through protein engineering, project partners molecularly modify enzymes and resins to make it possible to recover thermoset composites and give them a second life.  

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Defense

BAE Systems extends multi-year F-35 tail assembly agreement with Magellan Aerospace

Horizontal tail assembly production for the composite fighter aircraft continues at Magellan’s Winnipeg facility, targets more than 1,000 shipsets for the duration of the program.  

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Wind/Energy

WETO funding opportunity addresses wind energy deployment challenges

Wind Energy Technologies Office releases $28 million in funding for interested parties to address barriers to the deployment of wind energy onshore, offshore and distributed.   

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Ross FDA-3500 dual shaft mixer designed for high-speed polymer dispersions

Custom-built multi-agitator system is ideal for producing resin blends, filled composites, plastisols and more.  

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Thermoplastics

UD researchers advance TuFF composite's viability for aerospace

The University of Delaware’s research team continues to mature the short fiber composite’s cost competitiveness with metal through sensor embedding, virtual modeling and TuFF thermoset manufacture.  

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Pressure Vessels

Cryomotive opens Hydrogen Storage Manufacturing Center 

Cryomotive is to develop, manufacture and assemble Cryogas composite hydrogen tanks for commercial vehicles, buses and ships at new Pfeffenhausen site, accelerating hydrogen refueling systems production for zero-emission commercial vehicles.  

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BriskHeat selects Costa Rica for Latin American operations location

BriskHeat boosts thermal blankets and insulation production for customers throughout the Americas, adds to U.S. and European operations.   

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