Scott Francis

Scott Francis Editor-In-Chief

Marine

American Magic announces Airbus as innovation partner in America's Cup bid

Airbus will allocate engineering resources and modeling expertise to assist in the design optimization of American Magic’s future AC75 racing boat.

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Consumer

CAMX Show Daily available for download

All three issues of the 2018 CAMX Show Daily are available to read online or for download.

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Defense

Unitech Composites to provide composite weapons pylons for Afghan Black Hawk helicopters

Unitech’s LASS weapons pylons are lighter than legacy metallic EFS plyons and they reduce drag and maintain a neutral lift. 

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Out of Autoclave

Hennecke announces second generation STREAMLINE metering machine for HP-RTM

The second generation of Hennecke’s STREAMLINE metering machines for HP-RTM and CLEARRIM/clearmelt applications boasts improved production flexibility. 

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Aerospace

New prepreg material designed for advanced radome systems

Park Electrochemical Corp.’s RadarWave materials are said to exhibit transmissivity properties similar to those of higher cost materials used to manufacture advanced radome systems.

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Aerospace

Scorpius Space Launch Company unveils carbon fiber cryogenic high pressure tanks

SSLC’s vessels are built with carbon fiber materials and the company’s proprietary Sapphire 77 cryogenic resin system and feature anti-slosh baffles.

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Automotive

Haydale to develop graphene enhanced composite tooling and automotive body panels

Through development in this core strategic area, Haydale is looking to reduce cycle times, as well as reduce weight and increase performance of component material.

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Study looks at composites in the furniture industry

AZL announces study aimed at understanding the selection process of furniture designers in order to bring composites to the market as an alternative to conventional materials.

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Wind/Energy

Musings on my first CAMX

Insights and inspiration from the 2018 Composites and Advanced Materials Expo which was held in Dallas, TX, US last week. 

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Weaving

METYX adds warehouse space in Hungary

METYX Composites has increased its facilities for composite technical fabrics, packaging and FRP tooling.

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Pressure Vessels

LM Wind Power to supply wind turbine blades for Goldwind 3-4 MW onshore platform

The agreement covers three variants and includes 66.9- and 69.0-m blade lengths.

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Sustainability

TPAC and TPRC develop thermoplastic composites recycling process

Known as TPC-Cycle, the project targets production scrap by developing a recycling route for high-end and high volume markets.

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