Jeff Sloan

Jeff Sloan Brand Vice President, CompositesWorld & Plastics Technology

Biomaterials

CAMX 2014 show report

Bigger, better and more inclusive than any previous U.S. composites trade event, the inaugural show turns North American eyes forward to the future.

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Sustainability

Automotive consortium aims to boost composites data management

Granta Design's automotive consortium hopes to help automakers and automotive suppliers gather, organize and manage manufacturing and materials data to develop best-practice standards.

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Editorial

Goodbye CT, hello CW

Composites Technology magazine's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan waves a fond farewell to CT and its sister publication, High-Performance Composites, after 20 and 22 years, respectively, and introduces their replacement, CompositesWorld magazine.

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Aerospace

Virgin Galactic: After the crash

Although the official cause of the crash of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo is not yet determined, the evidence seems to indicate premature deployment of the feathering system as the culprit. Virgin Galactic is moving forward with assembly of the second SpaceShipTwo, with lessons learned from the accident surely to be applied.

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High-Performance Composites + Composites Technology = CompositesWorld

Starting January 2015, High-Performance Composites (HPC) and Composites Technology (CT) magazines will be merged to create one new monthly publication, called CompositesWorld (CW).

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Construction

Aerospace, construction CAMX Awards winners

Representing both ends of the composites industry spectrum, the inaugural CAMX Awards go to Epitome Foundation Walls and the NASA-Boeing all-composite cryotank.

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Wind/Energy

CAMX 2014: The inaugural show preview

ACMA and SAMPE come together to offer a conference and exhibition of unprecedented scale and value to manufacturers from all segments of the composites industry.

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Wind/Energy

The IBC and FRP

HPC editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan marks signs of progress toward the use of composites in high-rise architecture since the International Building Code was amended in 2009 to clearly define code-compliant uses of FRP.

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New look on the outside, same great content inside

It's officially fall, which means change is in the air. Here at CompositesWorld, you'll soon notice a new look and feel throughout the CW empire.

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Aerospace

Dream Chaser chases its dream outside of NASA

With Boeing and SpaceX winning the Commercial Crew Transportation Capability lottery, Sierra Nevada must find new suitors for the composites-intensive Dream Chaser.

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Adhesives

Searching for composites-friendly machine tools

This is IMTS week, where "composites" is a foreign word to much of the machine tool industry. It's not too hard, however, to find suppliers who know their way around composite structures.

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The best and brightest

HPC Editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan asks: How does the composites industry “sell” to students the huge range of opportunities it has to offer?

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