Jeff Sloan

Jeff Sloan Brand Vice President, CompositesWorld & Plastics Technology

Aerospace

Boeing, Adient launch effort to design, build aircraft seats

Adient Aerospace, a joint venture of Boeing and Adient, will develop, manufacture and sell a portfolio of seating products to airlines and aircraft leasing companies.

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Molds/Tools

Ascent Aerospace develops Invar-composite mold material

Ascent Aerospace’s HyVarC is a patent-pending hybrid tooling material comprising Invar and composites.

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Aerospace

CW Talks: Talking carbon nanotubes

CW Talks: The Composites Podcast, checks in with Joe Sprengard, president and CEO of General Nano, a manufacturer of carbon nanotube products for composites manufacturing, and 2016 winner of Boeing Supplier of the Year Award.

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Editorial

Math, science, data and the composites industry’s future

My first plant tour as a business journalist was in February 1997. Fast forward to 2018 and suddenly what was old is new again.

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Aerospace

CW Talks catches up with Chuck Miller

The founder of tooling board manufacturer Coastal Enterprises explains how he went from engineering solutions for the the Saturn V rocket launch vehicle in the mid-1960s to making polyurethane boards for tool proofing.

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Out of Autoclave

CompositesWorld 2018 Operations Report

CW’s inaugural Operations Report aims to shed some light on the state of composites manufacturing today, and how it might evolve.

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Aerospace

Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner cleared for service

Boeing has more than 170 orders for the 787-10 from nine customers worldwide. First delivery is expected to Singapore Airlines in the first half of 2018.

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Webinar: Nonwovens for fire protection

CompositesWorld is presenting a free TFP-sponsored webinar on Wednesday, Jan. 31 at 2 p.m. EST titled, “Enhancing Composite Fire Protection Using Advanced Nonwovens.”

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Out of Autoclave

KraussMaffei opens second R&D pultrusion line

KraussMaffei’s TechCenter in Munich now features two pultrusion lines, one to fabricate rebar and the other to fabricate flat profiles.

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Epoxies

Gougeon Brothers acquires Entropy Resins

California-based Entropy Resins manufactures bio-based epoxy formulations for adhesive, coating, and composites applications.

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IACMI

John Hopkins named permanent CEO of IACMI

Hopkins had been serving as interim CEO since September 2017. The “interim” tag was removed at the IACMI winter membership meeting on Jan. 16.

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Construction

Composite in Netherlands tunnel firewater system

The A2 motorway used to run through Maastricht. Now it runs under it. Composite piping helps make sure the tunnel’s firewater system is always ready.

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