Grace Nehls

Grace Nehls Senior Managing Editor

Automotive

Submit abstracts to SPE ACCE 2023 student poster competition

Graduate, undergraduate, community college and high school students are invited to submit poster titles and abstracts on innovative composites technologies by July 1, 2023.

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Automation

Airbus selects Airborne to supply automated ply placement system

The pick-and-place system with software-driven automated will be the first in Airbus facilities, enabling highly efficient and flexible dry fiber preform manufacture for A350 structures.

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Marine

French sailmaker incorporates Aluula composites aboard Biotherm race boat

Incidence Sails has successfully integrated Aluula Durlyte into its long-distance ocean race sails after withstanding two years of rigorous testing in numerous open ocean races.

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Infrastructure

CCG FRP panels rehabilitate historic Northamption Street Bridge

High-strength, composite molded, prefabricated panels solve weight problems for the heavily-trafficked bridge, providing cantilever sidewalks for wider shared use paths.

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Aerospace

NASA selects Blue Origin as second Artemis lunar lander provider

Blue Origin joins SpaceX in design, development, testing and verification of its lander concept to enable recurring astronaut expedients to the moon per the NASA Artemis program.

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Thermoplastics

The Gund Co. acquires Vanderveer Industrial Plastics

California-based composites and plastics fabricator will advance The Gund Co.’s access to highly engineered thermoplastics in high-tech industries.

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Carbon Fibers

Time Bicycles to modernize composite bicycle manufacturing

With the aid of KraussMaffei, Clemson University and SC Fraunhofer USA Alliance, Time anticipates a transition to HP-RTM for more efficient carbon fiber bike frame manufacture, plus a new facility in South Carolina.

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CAMX

CAMX announces general session presenter, open registration

Attendees registered for the Oct. 31 – Nov. 2, 2023 event in Atlanta, Georgia, are invited to attend this year’s keynote put on by Joan Higginbotham, a former NASA astronaut and president of aerospace consulting firm Joan Higginbotham Ad Astra LLC.

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Aerospace

Park Aerospace is approved, qualified for facility production expansion

The aerospace company’s largest customer has approved an approximately 90,000-square-foot addition to Park’s Newton, Kansas, facilities for aircraft production programs.

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Pacific Coast Composites acquired by specialty chemical distributor

GracoRoberts anticipates offering current and new aerospace industry customers an extensive offering of composite products with short lead times.

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Eve Air Mobility completes eVTOL wind tunnel testing

A scale model of the lift + cruise eVTOL aircraft was tested to further refine the understanding of how the components will perform in future flight.

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Aerospace

Rolls-Royce successfully tests UltraFan aeroengine demonstrator

First tests with sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) were performed at a large, indoor aeroengine testing facility in Derby, U.K., advancing the UltraFan’s decade-long development.

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