Grace Nehls

Grace Nehls Senior Managing Editor

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Coriolis highlights C1.2 compact AFP system for multi-material applications

New developments regarding productivity, maintenance and ergonomics make this enhanced composite placement system well suited for the production of complex parts.

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Aerospace

Stratolaunch TA-1 test vehicle completes captive carry flight 

The flight was the 12th for the company’s launch platform Roc and the first carrying the Talon-A testbed vehicle with live propellant, in preparation for its first powered hypersonic flight.

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Carbon Fibers

Carbon Revolution awarded OEM program, sets sights on additional NA facility

The carbon fiber wheel manufacturer and supplier has been awarded a total of 18 vehicle programs over the last couple of years, and is now looking to build capacity.

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Voith Composites certifies towpreg-wound Carbon4Tank for on-road use

Type IV hydrogen storage tank has earned type approval under UNECE R 134 after meeting stringent performance requirements.

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Wind/Energy

Vestas signs MOU with DTEK, extends Ukraine’s largest wind energy project

Second phase will add 384 megawatts to the Tyligulska wind project, bringing it to a capacity of 498 megawatts.

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FMG market outlook update gives a financial perspective on advanced materials

Future Material Group’s latest edition explores the complex relationship between composite materials development and financial investments.

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AFWERX funding advances Piasecki ARES program

The $37 million contract will enable Piasecki to demonstrate its ARES tilt-duct VTOL aircraft and hydrogen fuel cell propulsion technologies.

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Ross Mixers offers Trial Rental Program for R&D-scale equipment

Extensive inventory of pre-owned and new lab- and production-scale mixers for plastics and composites enable testing prior capital investment.

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Breakthrough material provides tunable radar absorption, infrared thermal camouflage

Researchers at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology demonstrated obscured IR signatures of objects from human hands to aircraft fuselages, exceeding current stealth technologies at only 2.77 millimeters thickness.

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HevenDrones introduces composite drones powered by hydrogen

The H2D200 series builds on the success of the company’s H100 platform, offering extended ranges and payloads via an environmentally cleaner system.

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Marine

Future Fibres’ LiMit Collar protects composite rigging against lightning

Multi-material system wins DAME Design Award 2023 for mitigating damage caused by direct or induced lightning currents to carbon fiber and metallic mast rigging for watercraft.

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Offshore wind turbine construction begins for South Fork Wind 

The 130-megawatt utility-scale wind farm off the coast of Long Island leads state efforts to install 9 gigawatts of offshore wind by 2035.

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