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Thermoplastics 6 Jun 2018

EconCore partners with MEAF on continuous thermoplastic honeycomb cores

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

Aerospace 6 Jun 2018

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.

Infrastructure 5 Jun 2018

SAMPE 2018 Student Bridge Contest winners

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

Additive Manufacturing 5 Jun 2018

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.

Aerospace 5 Jun 2018

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.

Glass Fibers 4 Jun 2018

PolyOne acquires PlastiComp

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

Molds/Tools 4 Jun 2018

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.

Aerospace 1 Jun 2018

Safran achieves milestone with thrust reverser

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

Additive Manufacturing 1 Jun 2018

Startup company sets sights on tailor-made thermoset composite parts

Researchers from Politecnico di Milano’s +LAB, winner of 2017 JEC Innovation Award, have started Moi Composites to offer tailor-made thermoset high performance parts.  

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