Jeff Sloan Brand Vice President, CompositesWorld & Plastics Technology

Out of Autoclave 12 Jan 2018

Yes, you clean tooling board with dry ice

Coastal Enterprises and Cold Jet cooperate to assess the use of dry ice blasting to clean the contaminated surface of a high-density urethane tooling board material.

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Ceramic Matrix Composites 9 Jan 2018

CW's top 10 digital content of 2017

CW’s first list of 2018 is a simple one: The top 10 most viewed articles on the CompositesWorld website in 2017.

8 Jan 2018

MIT nanofibers offer strength, toughness

MIT researchers have used gel electrospinning to produce ultrafine polyethylene fibers that offer excellent strength and toughness properties.

Aerospace 8 Jan 2018

Airbus rolls out first A321neo ACF

The A321neo ACF is powered by CFM LEAP-1 engines and seats up to 240 passengers.

Construction 8 Jan 2018

Plasan to manufacture composite ramps for Amtrak

Plasan Carbon Composites meets stringent weight and strength requirements for Amtrak’s Acela rail service.

Pressure Vessels 8 Jan 2018

New York governor proposes major offshore wind project

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo called for a procurement of at least 800 MW of offshore wind power between two solicitations to be issued in 2018 and 2019, resulting in enough energy to power 400,000 New York households.

Aerospace 8 Jan 2018

Wanfeng Aviation Industry acquires Diamond Aircraft Group

China-based Wanfeng had been an investor of Austria-based Diamond’s general aviation aircraft facility in Canada, but now takes over the entire company. Diamond manufactures composites-intensive, piston-powered aircraft.

2 Jan 2018

WichiTech develops new composites repair system

WichiTech Industries Inc. has introduced HB2003 and HB2003A, 20-amp and 30-amp, respectively, dual-zone composites repair systems.

Fabrics/Preforms 2 Jan 2018

General Nano launches VeeloVEIL nonwoven

General Nano has launched VeeloVEIL, a new lightweight, flexible, electrically conductive, metallized nonwoven material that has been developed with aerospace and defense customers to meet the aerospace industry’s most stringent lightning strike protection and electromagnetic environment effects requirements.