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Aerospace

35th Space Symposium puts emphasis on collaboration, U.S. leadership in space

High-profile speakers at the 35th Space Symposium emphasized the need to increase collaboration with commercial entities and foreign partners to maintain U.S. dominance in space.

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Aerospace

Bye's Sunflyer rebranded as eFlyer

Bye Aerospace says eFlyer’s (formerly Sun Flyer) new name more accurately represents the aircraft’s all-electric propulsion system.

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Automotive

EconCore breaking new ground with high-performance core materials

EconCore’s new ThermHex high-performance thermoplastics (HPT) honeycomb materials are well suited for applications requiring lightweight solutions but still needing to meet heat resistance and fire-smoke-toxicity (FST) requirements.

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NDI

HAECO expands composite services business to North America

Located within HAECO Americas (Greensboro, N.C., U.S.) the new facility will reportedly include full composite shop capabilities.

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RTM

Latécoère joins TPRC

As a new Tier 1 member of the ThermoPlastic composites Research Centre, Latécoère offers expertise in various fields of composite technologies (RTM, LRI).

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Automation

Turkish Aerospace Industries to build new aircraft composite part plant

Turkish Aerospace Industries’ 95,000 square-meter smart factory for structural aircraft parts will reportedly become the world’s fourth-largest composite plant.

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Infrastructure

FRP composite piles offer strength, corrosion resistance

Department of Transportation (DOT) agencies tasked with replacing aging marine fender systems are opting for corrosion-resistant fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) pilings with increasing frequency.

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Thermoplastics

SABIC's innovations of scale

SABIC at JEC World 2019 offered a virtual reality-based peek at its new Digital Composites Manufacturing line — a collaboration with Airborne aimed at automated, large scale laminate production of thermoplastic composite parts.

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Automotive

Boston SAMPE to highlight advanced composite driver-side commercial passenger car door project

The featured project is an example of an automated low-cycle time solution that enables composites to become a viable alternative to metals in high rate automotive manufacturing.

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Sustainability

NASA selects new research institutes to develop smart habitats for space exploration

The goal of the new Space Technology Research Institutes (STRIs) is to develop automated technologies critical to a sustainable human presence on the Moon and eventually Mars. 

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Space

RUAG Space to supply composite payload fairings for H3 launch vehicle

The contract includes manufacturing of composite payload fairings and payload supporting structures for the H3 launch vehicle by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

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Consumer

Carbon fiber guide dog handle improves coordination and comfort

Refitech was a finalist in the JEC 2019 Innovation Awards for a carbon-fiber guide dog handle that it produced for the Royal Dutch Guide Dog Foundation (KNGF).

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