Jeff Sloan

Jeff Sloan Brand Vice President, CompositesWorld & Plastics Technology

Molds/Tools

Composites enable novel flying speedboat

Candela Boats’ Seven speedboat combines all-electric propulsion with precision foiling in a design made possible by creative composites engineering.

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CompositesWorld seeks feedback for composites media survey

CompositesWorld has launched a new survey to find out what types of composites information its readers like, and how they prefer to access it. Click here to participate.

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Aerospace

To boldly go . . .

Space travel is a challenge, even if filmmakers like to make us think otherwise.

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Adhesives

Reliabotics introduces carbonic cleaning systems

Reliabotics has introduced to the composites market a line of CO2-based cleaning products designed to provide fast, highly efficient, waste-free cleaning of a variety of surfaces, including molds and finished composite parts and structures.

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Epoxies

Hexcel to merge with aerospace/industrial equipment OEM Woodward

Hexcel, a major supplier of carbon fiber as well as intermediate composite materials, is joining forces with aerospace and industrial equipment manufacturer Woodward to create Woodward Hexcel, which is expected to generate annual revenues of $5.3 billion. 

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Trends

Eisenmann Thermal Solutions acquired by ONEJOON

Eisenmann, which makes furnaces used in carbon fiber manufacture, was acquired by Korea-based furnace producer ONEJOON.

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Wind/Energy

U.S. Production Tax Credit extended one year

The PTC is targeted directly at developers of wind farms and extends the previous legislation that was phased out and expired at the end of 2019. 

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Tech Table: Adhesives

A table of aerospace structural adhesives includes collected from data provided by suppliers. 

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Automotive

The R&D we don't see

Shedding light on unrecognized composites manufacturing innovation.

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Aerospace

Boeing to suspend 737 MAX production beginning in January

Longer-than-expected re-certification is forcing Boeing to focus on delivering stored aircraft. No layoffs or furloughs are planned.

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Aerospace

Spaceship Co. attaches feather system to next SpaceShipTwo

Virgin Galactic’s sister company has completed a major milestone in the manufacture of the composites-intensive SpaceShipTwo, which will carry tourists on short-duration space flights.

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Composite resins price change report

CW’s running summary of resin price change announcements from major material suppliers that serve the composites manufacturing industry.

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