Scott Francis

Scott Francis Editor-In-Chief

Space

Blue Origin to team up with Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper on lunar lander

Proposed lunar landing system to be considered for NASA’s Artemis program, which seeks to return humans to the moon by 2024.

Read More
Automotive

Shape Machining unveils carbon fiber suspension links

The company has designed, manufactured and successfully tested a carbon fiber suspension link for a high-end automotive OEM.

Read More
Construction

Keeping things moving with FRP

Two recent projects using fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) bridge decking material from Composite Advantage (Dayton, Ohio, U.S.) demonstrate the increasing role of composites in infrastructure.

Read More
Out of Autoclave

On the road with CompositesWorld

CW Senior Editor Scott Francis offers a recap of recent composites industries events including CAMX 2019 and SPE ACCE 2019. 

Watch
Automotive

Dymag to increase carbon fiber wheel production

Dymag plans to increase its production capacity to drive down the costs of wheels and structural composite components. 

Read More
Weaving

COBRA composites enable security robot

COBRA to deliver a set of eight composite parts that form the lightweight body shell cladding of a 1.35-meter high patrol robot.

Watch
Aerospace

NASA all-electric experimental aircraft to begin ground testing

NASA’s X-57 Maxwell has been delivered to NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in its Mod II configuration and will soon undergo extensive ground testing of its integrated electric propulsion system.

Read More
Automotive

Scott Bader's urethane acrylate resins enable Corvette Stingray bumper beam

The company’s Crestapol resins were used for the automotive industry’s first curved, multi-hollow pultruded carbon fiber bumper beam.

Read More

Henkel to collaborate with Carbon Revolution on composite wheels

Henkel and Carbon Revolution join forces to speed OEM automotive one-piece carbon fiber wheels development. 

Read More
Adhesives

Product Roundup: September 2019

CW’s roundup of new products for the composites industry – the past month has seen innovations from Airtech, Ashland, CoreTech, Johns Manville, Karl Mayer, KraussMaffei, PRF Composite Materials, RTP Co., SHD Composite Materials and Zetec.

Read More
Thermoplastics

Toray begins thermoplastic resin production in India

Toray’s new India-based facility should reach its full operating capacity of around 5,000 metric tons in the near future.

Read More
Carbon Fibers

All-composite wheel for electric vehicles wins funding

A project to develop the world’s first commercially viable, low cost, lightweight, all-composite wheel for electric and niche vehicles such as driverless cars wins grant funding of £135,500.

Read More
Composite raw materials