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Solvay assumes direct service of its composite materials business in the Asia Pacific Region

Specialty material distributor Argosy and Solvay sign agreement to transition advanced materials business. 

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Carbon Fibers

Brad Dunstan 1960 - 2018

In memoriam of Brad Dunstan, automotive engineer, industry advocate.

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Prepregs

c-m-p gmbH expansion includes new manufacturing facility

A second office building and second manufacturing hall will be added to the prepreg manufacturer’s Heinsberg-Oberbruch location in response to business growth.

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Adhesives

New high-performance pipes for oil and gas industry from KraussMaffei

KraussMaffei has announced two pipe extrusion technologies including a new thermoplastic composite pipes pilot line and a three-layer pipe with a functional inner layer made of polyamide.

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Adhesives

EconCore partners with MEAF on continuous thermoplastic honeycomb cores

EconCore (Leuven, Belgium) is making progress in development of new all-thermoplastics continuous honeycomb cores.

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Aerospace

Rolls Royce launches Pearl family of engines

The Pearl 15 is the first of the planned Rolls-Royce’s Pearl engine family, which will be used for Bombardier’s Global 5500 and Global 6500 business jets.

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Infrastructure

SAMPE 2018 Student Bridge Contest winners

The SAMPE Student Bridge Contest is an international competition involving schools from around the globe.

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Carbon Fibers

Arevo's 3D-printed commuter bike supported by Hexcel carbon fiber

Arevo recently secured financing to build on the full-scale commercialization of the technology demonstrated by the world’s first true 3D-printed bike.

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Aerospace

Airbus awards Teledyne CML Composites A350 Life of Program contract

The package includes a range of composite parts for the  A350-900 and the A350-1000 aircraft wings.

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Medical

PolyOne acquires PlastiComp

PolyOne Corporation has announced the acquisition of PlastiComp, manufacturer of advanced engineered materials and specialty composites.

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Molds/Tools

Innovate UK backs Oxford-based automated composite tooling company

Mouldbox has received a grant from the UK innovation agency to develop their machine learning platform and design-to-product composite tooling service. 

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Aerospace

Safran achieves milestone with thrust reverser

2,000 thrust reversers have been designed and manufactured by Safran Nacelles for the Honeywell HTF7000 engine variants.

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