Jeff Sloan

Jeff Sloan Brand Vice President, CompositesWorld & Plastics Technology

Editorial

To boldly go . . .

In 50 years, how we will look back on this new age of corporation-led space flight?

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Cyanate Ester

Park Aerospace's epoxy, cyanate ester resins target advanced radome applications

Park Electromechanical Corp. has introduced RadarWave, a new family of prepreg materials developed for the fabrication of advanced radome systems, principally for aerospace and defense applications.

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CAMX

If you didn't make it to CAMX, here's what you missed

CAMX 2018 was held Oct. 15-18 in Dallas, and if you could not attend this year, CompositesWorld did it for you. This compendium of written and video reporting from the show is designed to bring you up to speed on the new products, trends, presentations and more that the show had to offer.

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Carbon Fibers

Hyosung launches aerospace-grade carbon fiber

Hyosung Advanced Materials Corp.’s Carbon Fiber Business Division is launching a new carbon fiber, designed for next-generation primary and secondary aerospace structures.

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CAMX 2018 video review

CAMX 2018 offered a comprehensive glimpse of how materials and processing technologies are evolving for the global composites industry.

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The beauty of complication

CW Editor Jeff Sloan reflects on the challenge and fun of doing what CW does: chronicling the hard-to-explain, ever-changing evolution of composites manufacturing.

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Thermoplastics

CAMX 2018 preview: PolyOne Advanced Composites

PolyOne Advanced Composites (Avon Lake, OH, US) is highlighting its portfolio of continuous fiber composites, along with its processing and design expertise.

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CAMX 2018: Exhibit previews

If you are headed to CAMX 2018 Oct. 15-18 in Dallas, TX, you can catch a glimpse of some of the products and technologies you are likely to find on the exhibit hall floor. 

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Aerospace

CAMX 2018 preview: Henkel

Henkel (Rocky Point, CT, US) is emphasizing in booth T13 its line of composite processing solutions for the entire manufacturing and bonding process, including mold releases, liquid shims, lightning strike protection and surfacing films, paste adhesives, machinable syntactic pastes and films, machinable adhesive films and low-viscosity composite resins.

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Adhesives

Automotive tipping point?

CW Editor Jeff Sloan predicts a tipping point for autocomposites after attending this year’s Society of Plastics Engineers’ Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition (SPE ACCE).

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CAMX

CAMX 2018 preview: Gerber Technology

Gerber Technology (Tolland, CT, US), Booth F29, is demonstrating its AccuMark and CutWorks software platforms, as well as a GERBERcutter Z1 cutting table equipped with a patented Pivex knife.

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Molds/Tools

CAMX 2018 preview: Airtech

Airtech International Inc. (Huntington Beach, CA, US) is introducing several new products this year in Booth V3. 

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Alpha’s Premier ESR®
prepeg and slit tape products
Composite raw materials
Quickly Make Molds, Tools and Fixtures