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Styrene: Issues and implications
The facts (such as they are) behind the furor surrounding this vital crosslinking chemical’s listing in the 12th RoC.
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The styrene puzzle
CT editor-in-chief outlines two major challenges posed by the recent listing of styrene in the U.S. National Toxicology Program's 12th Report on Carcinogens.
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CompositesWorld Investment Forum 2011 Highlights
When CIF conferees gathered, the subject was capital (its lack) and the prescription was scale up.
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Automotive evolution or real revolution?
HPC's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan asks, Are efforts by BMW and GM to put carbon composites in cars a harbinger of things to come, as we hope, or flashes in the pan?
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Sea and land transport: Hydro elevation
Composites lightweight and toughen the hull and superstructure of this transplanted amphibious naval hovercraft.
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SPE ACCE 2011: Growing again
The Society of Plastics Engineers’ 11th conference on automotive composites fields a top slate of speakers and attracts its largest crowd.
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Looking for butt-kickers
HPC editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan is looking for that larger-than-life bridge builder or automaker that is willing to take a Boeing-like composites plunge so everyone else takes a whipping for a bit and has to get onboard to keep up.
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Our "liability" is our greatest asset
HIgh-Performance Composites' editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan questions the wisdom of wishing away, for sake of comfort and ease, the complexity of composites when that very attribute is the key to its effectiveness as an alternative to metals.
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On the road again
CT's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan offers a quick review of doings at this year's SPE Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition, recently presented in Troy, Mich.
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Green resins: Growing up
High hurdles remain, but the push for sustainable sources of resin monomers is gaining momentum.
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PRSEUS preform for pressurized cabin walls
Over the next few years, NASA and The Boeing Co. (Chicago, Ill.) will build larger and more elaborate pressurized passenger cabin structures for future blended-wing airliners.
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Composites on the re-engined 737NE?
Jeff Sloan, editor-in-chief of High-Performance Composites magazine, comments on the impact of The Boeing Co.'s (Chicago, Ill.) decision to re-engine its fabled 737 single-aisle passenger jet. What remains to be seen, he says, are what composites opportunities there might be on the 737NE.
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