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Thermwood 3D prints large boat hull pattern
Thermwood uses its LSAM additive manufacturing technology to fabricate a 3,000-lb/1,363-kg plug for a boat hull. The project proves the viability of additive manufacturing to help reduce marine composites fabrication costs.
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Roth develops high-volume LPG tank line
The gantry-based filament winding system is designed to produce as many as 600,000 plastic-lined, glass fiber-overwrapped liquefied petroleum (LPG) gas pressure vessels per year.
Read MoreState of the Composites Industry
Do you have your own assessment of the state of the composites industry? If so, let me know at jeff@compositesworld.com. And have a great 2018.
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L.S. Starrett Co. introduces benchtop vision measurement system
L.S. Starrett Co. (Athol, MA, US) has introduced the HVR100-FLIP, a new large field-of-vision (FOV) benchtop vision measurement system that is capable of being used in either a vertical or horizontal orientation.
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Aliancys launches Neomould tooling resin
Aliancys (Schaffhausen, Switzerland) has introduced its new Neomould 2017-S-1 resin for manufacturing composite tooling.
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Scott & Fyfe reinforcements reorganized, expanded
Technical fabrics specialist Scott & Fyfe (Tayport, Scotland) has reorganized its line of Alphashield CIPP (cured-in-place products) has been expanded and refined into four new product groups.
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HEATCON offers hot bonder thermocouple expansion
HEATCON Composite Systems (Seattle, WA, US) has developed the HCS9300E Series thermocouple expansion expansion unit, which expands thermocouple channels from the 20 built in on the HCS9200B Hot Bonder to 40 or 60 channels.
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Airtech's Combo-Tech combines vacuum bagging materials
Airtech Advanced Materials Group (Huntington Beach, CA, US) has introduced Combo-Tech, an expanded product line that bonds various vacuum bagging materials together to form what is said to be a better overall product that reduces touch labor.
WatchVerisurf announces Faro Software Solution Series
Verisurf Software Inc. (Anaheim, CA, US) has introduced its Faro Solution Suites, a combination of Verisurf application modules configured to provide easy-to-learn, easy-to-use vertical measurement solutions using any new or legacy Faro device.
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Australian research group launches carbon fiber manufacturing
CSIRO has begun manufacture of Australia’s first carbon fiber sourced entirely from materials produced in the country. Fiber quality is automotive grade, but the organization has its sights set on aerospace grade material.
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Dream Chaser completes free-flight test
Dream Chaser inches closer to first flight in the run-up to servicing the International Space Station, starting in 2020.
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Webinar: Carbon fiber characterization
CompositesWorld is presenting a free Netzsch-sponsored webinar on Nov. 30 at 11:00 am EST titled, “Material Characterization Along the CFRP Manufacturing Process.”
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