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Carbon Fibers

Roth develops filament winding machine for Ariane 6 rocket components

Designed specifically to handle the Ariane 6 boosters, Roth’s filament winding plant is one of the world’s largest machines of its kind.

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New Products: June 2018

CW’s monthly roundup of new products for the composites industry – this month has seen innovations from Anaglyph, KraussMaffei, Hexagon and Hypertherm.

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Epoxies

Ashland partners with Velox for composites distribution in France

All activities previously managed by Quimidroga, will transfer to VELOX France SAS (Paris, France) as of July 1, 2018.

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Construction

Hexagon unveils gas transport module featuring world's largest CFRP tanks

The TITAN 53 Mobile Pipeline gas transport module employs the largest composite cylinder tanks in the world.

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Carbon Fibers

Flaris Lar 1 completes final engine tests

In early June the last tests of the FJ33-5A engine were completed at the company’s new hangar at Wroclaw Airport in Wroclaw, Poland.

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Laminate Tools Version 4.8 released

Laminate Tools Version 4.8 introduces a substantial number of new features in the Design, Analysis, Check and Manufacture modules.

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University of Bologna, CMS team up for American Solar Challenge

The Emilia 4 solar car is based on the use of a series of high-tech features including advanced materials such as carbon fiber laminates.

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Natural Fibers

Volvo XC60 demonstrator employs Bcomp's natural fiber reinforcement technology

Bcomp’s renewable fiber reinforcements are used in interior panels in the recycled plastics demonstrator vehicle XC60 to overcome the degraded properties of recycled plastic.

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Aerospace

Audi, Airbus air-taxi to test in Ingolstadt

Urban Air Mobility project to be a model for air-taxi test operation and gain insight into developing new mobility concepts for cities.

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RTM

Osborne Industries secures ISO 9001:2015 certification

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 is currently the most up-to-date standard for performance of a manufacturer’s Quality Management System.

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Biomaterials

TRB develops biocomposite prepreg rail carriage door leaf

The new biocomposite door leaf product has been designed and fire rated for both overground and underground rail use.

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Defense

Reliance Industries to set up India's first carbon fiber production line

The company will cater to India’s aerospace and defense sectors as well as industrial and infrastructure. 

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Composite raw materials