Jeff Sloan Brand Vice President, CompositesWorld & Plastics Technology

Additive Manufacturing 13 Jul 2020

Arevo launches direct-to-customer 3D-printed bicycle

The Superstrata brand features a fully unibody carbon fiber/polyamide frame manufactured using Arevo’s direct deposition additive manufacturing process.

Aerospace 8 Jul 2020

Airbus announces headcount reduction through mid-2021

The reduction of 15,000 positions, made necessary by the coronavirus pandemic, will primarily affect Airbus employees in France, Spain, Germany and the U.K., as well as Stelia and Premium AEROTEC.

Wind/Energy 6 Jul 2020

ACT Blade, AMRC cooperate on 13m blade demonstrator

ACT Blade’s wind turbine blade design uses a textile shell overwrapping a structural spar to help reduce blade weight and manufacturing cost.

Composites 4.0 3 Jul 2020

Thinking machines

Algorithm-based artificial intelligence, once only imagined, is here. It can do a lot of good.

Fabrics/Preforms 1 Jul 2020

High-rate, automated aerospace RTM line delivers next-gen spoilers

At Spirit AeroSystem’s Prestwick facility in Scotland, a glimpse of the future of aerocomposites manufacturing in a resin transfer molding line for A320 spoilers.

Carbon Fibers 29 Jun 2020

Narrow UD tapes to bridge the ATL-AFP gap

Automated tape laying and automated fiber placement are similar, but not the same. Can narrow tapes provide a middle ground with advantages of both processes for next-gen aircraft?

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Aerospace 17 Jun 2020

Reading tea leaves: The outlook for aerospace

The coronavirus pandemic promises to wreak havoc on the aerospace composites supply chain, but it’s not too soon to start thinking about how a post-pandemic commercial aerospace market will evolve.

CAMX 16 Jun 2020

CAMX 2020 converted to virtual-only trade event

Coronavirus pandemic compels CAMX 2020 leadership to convert the composites conference and exhibition from an in-person event to a fully virtual event in September.