Jeff Sloan

Jeff Sloan Brand Vice President, CompositesWorld & Plastics Technology

Carbon Fibers

JEC World 2019 preview: Eisenmann

Eisenmann Thermal Solutions (Böblingen, Germany, 5/N61) is featuring its thermal production systems for the manufacture of carbon fiber.

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JEC World 2019 preview: Biteam

Biteam (Stockholm, Sweden, 5/B61) is featuring a range of carbon fiber 3D noodles or preforms to fill the deltoid or triangular cavity created when two oppositely curving laminates are laid next to each other in composites fabrication.

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Thermoplastics

JEC World 2019 preview: AZL Aachen

The Aachen Center for Integrative Lightweight Production (AZL) is part of the Composites in Action display at JEC Group (5/D17) where it is featuring its Ultra-Fast Consolidator Machine, which is one of three finalists for the JEC Award 2019 in the category of Industry and Equipment.

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Automotive

Would you like carbon fiber with that car?

The challenge for composites use to grow in the automotive industry is making the advantages of autocomposites appealing not only to OEMs, but to car consumers.

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Pressure Vessels

A change in the wind

Long-time CW staff depart, new faces emerge.

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Filament Winding

Engineering Technology (Entec) revamps filament winding machinery lineup

Engineering Technology Corp. has reorganized its line of filament winding equipment into primary products, each offering different combinations of maximum mandrel weight, maximum mandrel length, mandrel diameter, number of spindles, number of axes and speed. 

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Plant tour: Meggitt San Diego, CA, US

This aerospace and defense fabricator upgrades to a larger facility and gets, in the process, a chance to rethink and optimize material, people and process flow. 

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Molds/Tools

General Atomics Aeronautical developing tool-less thermoplastics composites process

Aerospace manufacturer General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Inc. is developing a novel process for the fabrication of thermoplastic composite structures that obviates the need for traditional molds or tooling.

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Carbon Fibers

Reflections on carbon fiber

Highlights from the December 2018 Carbon Fiber conference include industry leader predictions about commoditization of composites, next-generation aircraft and automotive.

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Developing next-generation composites talent

The M.C. Gill Composites Center at the University of Southern California has steadily grown to become one of the industry’s educational and R&D stalwarts.

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Ketones

NIAR's NCAMP qualifying TenCate thermoplastic composite

TenCate’s Cetex TC1225 T700GC 12K T1E unidirectional tape is a low-melt polyaryletherketone (LM PAEK) and is part of a broad effort by the National Center for Advanced Materials Performance (NCAMP) to qualify thermoplastic materials.

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Aerospace

Boeing to supply ELG carbon fiber for recycling

Under a five-year agreement, Boeing will supply carbon fiber recycling specialist ELG Carbon Fibre with cured and uncured material from its 777X wing manufacturing facility, as well as other locations.

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