Scott Francis

Scott Francis Editor-In-Chief

BBG ventures into new markets with innovative composite press

Based on composite spray molding, the new press will be used to manufacture interior parts for railway cars for Chinese railway supplier.

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Marine

EU funds research for maritime repair techniques using composite materials

€600,000 European grant awarded to croatian maritime research company to develop ship repair techniques using composite materials.

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Aerospace

AFRL pushes limits of polymer additive manufacturing

Air Force Research Laboratory research team has successfully printed the highest-temperature capable, reinforced polymer composite parts.

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Carbon Fibers

METYX announces new technical textiles manufacturing facility

New production site will manufacture a range of glass and carbon fabrics for the North American composites market.

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Aerospace

Hexcel celebrates Casablanca facility grand opening

The Moroccan plant is part of Hexcel’s ongoing worldwide investment to meet the aerospace market’s growing demand for engineered core.

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Space

Humanity Star satellite to begin early descent

Reflective carbon fiber satellite’s brief mission of “making people look up” will come to an end earlier than expected.

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Carbon Fibers

High Eye HEF32 UAV helicopter on track

Thanks to the carbon fibre components from Refitech, High Eye’s new HEF32 AUV helicopter completes successful test performance.

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Aerospace

LMI receives multiyear thermoplastics contract from Boeing

Contract follows Boeing's 2017 qualification of the LMI operation as a provider of thermoplastic composite parts.

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Bonding

Henkel announces novel additive manufacturing materials

Henkel Adhesive Technologies accelerates commercializing tailor-made materials and offers comprehensive services for 3D Printing solutions.

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Consumer

TFP nonwovens used in CCM Hockey sticks

Technical Fibre Products announced that their lightweight nonwovens play a key part in enhancing the composite fabrication of the next generation of CCM Hockey sticks.

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Composites 4.0

Swinburne 4.0 test lab to feature Fill's multilayer printing technology

The centrepiece of Swinburne’s testlab is the world’s first industrial scale 3D printing “multilayer” approach to carbon fibre composite manufacture developed by Fill.

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Aerospace

Orbital ATK produces 25,000th composite Dreamliner part

Company reaches major production milestone as composite structures are installed in more than 150 Boeing 787 Dreamliners.

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