Scott Francis

Scott Francis Editor-In-Chief

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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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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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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Autoclave

Matrix Composites accredited by Nadcap

Matrix Composites, Inc. reports it will appear on the Qualified Manufacturers List (QML) for composites as a Nadcap accredited company.  

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Thermoplastics

Covestro begins commercial production of CFRTP

Covestro announces it will begin commercial production of its lightweight, high-strength continuous fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite material.

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Wind/Energy

TPI and Vestas partner to open new China-based facility

TPI Composites, Inc. announces a multiyear supply agreement with Vestas to provide blades for the new V150-4.2 MW wind turbine for global markets.

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Aerospace

Boeing 737 MAX 7 flies for the first time

After a successful first flight, the 737 MAX 7 will begin a comprehensive flight test program leading to certification and delivery in 2019.

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