Grace Nehls

Grace Nehls Senior Managing Editor

Trends

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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Trends

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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Wind/Energy

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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Biomaterials

UMaine BioHome3D meets sustainability, strength and durability goals

Data collected from one year of outdoor testing reasserts the 3D-printed, bio-based structure’s viability to address housing challenges, sets the stage for future development.

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Aerospace

Airbus starts production of Galileo Second Generation satellite featuring composites

Manufacturing of six state-of-the-art GNSS satellites uses composite structures from Beyond Gravity, will augment current Galileo constellation.

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Epoxies

Swancor introduces eco-friendly epoxy hardener for PCB recyclability

Through the use of EzCiclio low-dielectric epoxy hardener, PCB manufactures can make recyclable, reusable products for electronic applications.

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