Hannah Mason

Hannah Mason Technical Editor

Automotive

Plastic-metal hybrid auto structure named SPE Hall of Fame winner

The plastic-metal hybrid front end automotive structure, built by Ford Motor Co. with LANXESS glass fiber-filled PA6 resin, reduced costs and weight compared to all-steel structures.

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Aerospace

FACC Wichita performs 1000th split scimitar winglet modification

FACC Solutions Inc., the company’s Wichita, Kan., U.S. subsidiary, will deliver the 1000th shipset of its modified Boeing 737 winglet to Southwest Airlines.

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Bonding

Pressure-sensitive tape offers high visibility, elongation

Airtech’s Wrightlease 4 is an extruded fluoropolymer film coated with silicone pressure sensitive adhesive.

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Composites 4.0

PUR metering systems designed for digital integration

KraussMaffei’s EcoStar, RimStar and RimStar Smart mixing and metering machines support digitization in polyurethane (PUR) foam production.

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Sustainability

CAMX 2019 technical paper, poster session award winners announced

The award winners include researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, National Research Council Canada, Mitsubishi Electric and several U.S. university programs.

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Adhesives

Researchers develop process to make ductile glass

According to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, silica glass shows potential for less brittle electronic screens and, ultimately, structural applications.

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Thermoplastics

Continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastics data added to CAMPUS database

The new data, which will be released in October, is the result of an ongoing material standardization and characterization effort led by German reinforced plastics company AVK.

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Aerospace

Plascore to build new facility in Zeeland, Mich., U.S.

The engineered core and composite products manufacturer is constructing an 80,000-square-foot facility that will lead to the creation of approximately 35 jobs.

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Research project reports potential for tape inserts in injection molding

The research consortium, led by the Aachen Center for Integrative Lightweight Production and the Institute for Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University, will present its results at K 2019.

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Aerospace

People in Composites: September 2019

CW’s monthly roundup of people news in the composites industry, including recent appointments at Gougeon Brothers, Scott Bader, Shape, KraussMaffei, Teijin Ltd. and the NASA Langley Research Center.

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Out of Autoclave

Continuous Composites, Arkema partner to advance continuous-fiber 3D printing

The companies will combine Continuous Composites' CF3D process with Arkema's photocurable resins to develop and certify  composite 3D-printing solutions.

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Ketones

Download today's news from CAMX: Thursday, Sept. 26

CW is reporting live from CAMX 2019 this week in Anaheim, California. Read today’s show headlines, including show highlights, the first CAMX additive manufacturing workshop and CAMX news from Solvay and PolyOne.

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