Grace Nehls

Grace Nehls Senior Managing Editor

Pultrusion

Exel Composites, Keneco Group establish joint venture for pultruded composites solutions

Kineco Exel Composites India is a composites design, engineering and production company based in Goa, India, which will serve the Indian market across transportation, wind power, infrastructure, telecommunications, aerospace and defense markets.

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Hydrogen Storage

$62 million financing round accelerates Universal Hydrogen's first test flight to 2022

Total raised capital reaches $85 million to conduct the first test flight of Universal Hydrogen’s hydrogen fuel cell powertrain with composite storage tanks on a 40+ passenger regional airliner in 2022.

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CAMX

Download today's news from CAMX 2021: Wednesday, Oct. 20

CW is reporting live from CAMX 2021 this week in Dallas, Texas. Read today’s show headlines covering the CAMX Award winners, opening keynote speaker, innovative companies and technologies and more.

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Fabrics/Preforms

IDI Composites selected for high-performance carbon fiber forged wheels

Composite performance wheels offer 40% less weight and high-volume production cost competitive with aluminum alloy alternatives.

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Trends

Hyundai selects IDI Composites’ Fortium thermoset material for Santa Cruz truck box

The Fortium series imparts 40-65% discontinuous glass fiber reinforcement with high-strength and impact resistance in “scratch black” for a highly functional truck bed in the 2022 Sport Adventure Vehicle (SAV).

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CAMX

Download today's news from CAMX 2021: Tuesday, Oct. 19

CW is reporting live from CAMX 2021 this week in Dallas, Texas. Read today’s show headlines covering the upcoming keynote speaker, health and safety guidelines, ACE/CAMX award finalists and more.

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Sustainability

Lanxess reveals highly sustainable Scopeblue composite material series

PA6 glass fiber-reinforced compound under Lanxess’ new Scopeblue series is made from 92% sustainable raw materials, with content goals headed toward 100%.

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Wind/Energy

Utility-scale offshore wind installation Vineyard Wind orders Haliade-X turbines

GE Renewable Energy will be supplying 62 units of the Haliade-X 13 MW turbine for the Vineyard Wind 1 installation in Massachusetts, with energy generation expected to start in 2023.

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Wind/Energy

GE launches second production line for 107-meter wind turbine blade mold

The Cherbourg, France, facility is to ramp up production to meet offshore wind blade demand, with plans to expand the site with a hall for finishing blades.

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Repair

Veelo Technologies introduces portable single-zone hot bonder

Hot bonder is provided in a compact, lightweight format and controls heat sources applied in composite processing and composite repair applications.

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Sustainability

Arris Composites, Airbus collaborate on composites research for lightweighting cabin brackets

The project aims to demonstrate significant reductions in aviation emissions by leveraging topology optimization and advanced composites to replace metal brackets used on aircraft.

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Aerospace

Gulfstream unveils G800 and G400 business jets

Ultra-long range G800 and comfortable G400 powered with Pratt & Whitney composite and titanium engines offer operational flexibility and improved environmental performance.

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