Grace Nehls

Grace Nehls Senior Managing Editor

Sustainability

STRUCTeam, Apex Composite Structures design, engineer sustainable composite footbridge

The 12.5-meter bridge provides pedestrian access through the village of Newchurch on the Isle of Wight, inspired by a similar footbridge commissioned by Network Rail in 2009.  

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People in Composites: July 2022

New personnel announcements have been made in July by composites companies AGY Holding Corp., Airbus, STRUCTeam, Arris Composites and KraussMaffei.

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Anisoprint partners with Jacobs University, SIT to establish composite 3D printing ecosystem

On-campus continuous fiber 3D printing based in Bremen, Germany, fosters research, education and technology transfer through materials development, process and design method improvement.  

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Desktop Metal introduces FreeFoam photopolymer resins

New family of products are able to produce durable and dimensionally accurate closed-cell, complex-designed foam parts without tooling via digital light processing.  

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Filament Winding

CorPower Ocean delivers first commercial-scale composite WEC hull

Custom-built, environmentally controled workcell forms integral part of composite hull construction, will lead to future manufacturing scaleup and mobility.  

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Consumer

Loop Energy to deliver additional fuel cell systems for hydrogen-electric city bus platform

The order from Mobility & Innovation Production, known for its composite zero-emissions bus platform, advances Loop Energy to the commercial scaleup phase.

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Beta Technologies secures 75-year aircraft facility lease at Burlington International Airport

Beta expects to its Vermont-based 355,000-square-foot production building to be online by 2023 for designing, producing and assembling electric aircraft.  

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Marine

Boka Marine joins American Recreational Products portfolio, launches fiberglass boat line

The National Composites recreational watercraft line features battery- or solar-powered technologies with a fiberglass frame and room to hold four people.  

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Aerospace

Embraer, Collins Aerospace demonstrate CNT-based ice protection system

Electro-thermal heating system based on MEA technologies lowers energy requirements, adverse effects of ice and lightens weight, is undergoing flight testing on Embraer Phenom 300E jet.  

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Aerospace

Collins Aerospace produces first electric motor prototype for Airlander 10

The 500-kilowatt motor for the Hybrid Air Vehicles airship targets 9 kW/kg and 98% efficiency through a new motor topology and composite construction.  

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Epoxies

HORYZN emergency UAV harnesses CFRP tooling from Voith Composites

Voith Composites collaborated with HORYZN, a student initiative that leverages CFRP tooling and composites know-how for its Mission Pulse UAV project.  

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Defense

Wickert commissions composite press for ballistic plate production

Wickert reports an increasing interest in complete presses used to produce composites-intensive armor for civilian and military vehicles, ships and aircraft.  

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