Grace Nehls

Grace Nehls Senior Managing Editor

Wind/Energy

China’s Sany Renewable rolls out 131-meter wind blade 

Sany reports that it has adopted an optimized airfoil design with greater thickness and a blunt trailing edge to augment strength and stability.

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FET awarded £50,000 AMPI grant for spinneret research

With the help of four universities, computational fluid dynamics studies will be conducted to develop more efficient version of FET’s synthetic polymer processing equipment.

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Automation

Rein4ced, Dieffenbacher automate large-scale production of CFRP bike frames

A synergistic alliance combining Dieffenbacher’s production automation with Rein4ced’s hybrid Feather composite led to fully automated bike frame production line, which will be expanded to other composite products.

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Aerospace

Bombardier forms academic partnership for pan-Canadian EcoJet project

As flight testing ramps up its second phase, University of Victoria Centre for Aerospace Research (CfAR) and British Columbia’s SME Quaternion Aerospace will help explore the blended wing body aircraft configuration and new technologies to reduce business jets emission by up to 50%.

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BriskHeat celebrates 75 years in the industrial heating industry

Founded in 1949, BriskHeat has evolved to serve customers globally, providing flexible surface and immersion heating products, controllers and insulators.

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Sustainability

Sonichem launches bio-based materials project for automotive

U.K. initiative, with the NCC, CPI, SHD Composites, Scott Bader and Polestar will work to convert biomass byproduct into lignin for automotive plastics, resins and composites.

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Marine

Artemis Technologies to test electric CTVs for offshore wind

Real-world demonstrations in the U.K. will prove the Artemis EF-24 CTVs capability to operate safely under extreme wind and tide conditions for wind farm operators.

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SAMPE nomination awards are open until Feb. 15th

Industry has the opportunity to honor individuals or chapters that have demonstrated excellence, commitment and innovation to the composites community.

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Automotive

Fire protection materials for pultrusion, 3D printing

JEC World 2024: The Lehvoss Group presents fire-resistant composite materials for transportation and other industries, including their using in 3D printing, toolmaking and other process examples.  

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Mito Material adds Ligra liquified graphene to product lineup

Chemically inert aqueous graphene solution can be readily dispersed through coatings, emulsions and sizing chemistries, highlighted through Vartega FenixFiber+.

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Zünd establishes new subsidiary in Brazil

Acquisition of long-time partner turned subsidiary BG Soluções Tecnológicas will further expand Zünd’s customer support in Latin America.

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Xnovo Technology, Exciscope introduce X-ray tensor tomography technique

Through a strategic partnership, the companies introduce the FiberScanner3D module, dedicated to bringing more rapid, reliable and robust fiber structure characterization methods to lab settings.

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