Sara Black

Sara Black Senior Technical Editor Emeritus

Aerospace

JEC announces finalists for Innovation Awards

JEC Group has announced its JEC Innovation Awards finalists, 30 total from 10 categories. Winners will be announced at JEC World 2018 on March 7.

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Sustainability

New Teijin app promises better calculations

Teijin Aramid has launched a new smartphone app designed to help users reduce calculation errors with a conversion tool for the fiber and textiles industry.

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Work In Progress

Improving composites processing with automated inspection

Automated, in-situ inspection bypasses the bottleneck of manual inspection.  

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Carbon Fibers

Cevotec now offers tapes for AFP/ATL

Cevotec’s cevoTape carbon fiber tape for automated placement processes is now commercially available.

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Resins

Core Molding acquires HPI

Core Molding Technologies, a compounder of custom sheet molding compound and molder of fiberglass-reinforced plastics, has acquired substantially all of the assets of Canada-based Horizon Plastics International Inc.

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Autoclave

Renegade recognized for supplier innovation

Renegade Materials was recognized for Supplier Innovation by Meggitt Polymers & Composites Group at Meggitt’s 2017 Global Supplier Conference.

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Call for nominations for Medal of Excellence

The University of Delaware Center for Composite Materials is seeking nominations for the 2018 Medal of Excellence in Composite Materials.

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Filament Winding

NTPT researches discontinuous fiber tubes

North Thin Ply Technology is collaborating with the Ecole Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne - Swiss Centre of Technology and other partners to demonstrate proof of technology of tubes made with discontinuous carbon fiber.

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New online Knowledge Base can help with mold release questions

A new online resource about all things mold release was recently announced by Stoner Molding Solutions (Quarryville, PA, US).

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Aerospace

Rocket Lab successfully deploys payload

Rocket Lab has successfully reached orbit with the test flight of its second all-composite Electron orbital launch vehicle, Still Testing, on Jan. 21.

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Sustainability

CRTC looking for interns

The Composite Recycling Technology Center is looking for two summer interns to work on the development of process and product technologies that use recycled carbon fiber.

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Sustainability

AVK invites submissions for innovation award

Germany-based AVK (Federation of Reinforced Plastics) is inviting submissions for its prestigious AVK Innovation Award 2018. 

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