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Purdue-related startup Araqev creates quality-control software for additive manufacturing
Araqev software expected to help reduce estimated $2 billion in global losses when using AM through machine learning models that simulate shape deviations for future prints.
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Basanite basalt rebar chosen to reinforce underground concrete structures
Indian Creek Village, an island municipality located in Florida, selected BasaFlex and BasaMesh fiber reinforcement products as alternatives to steel rebar.
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InfraCore develops composite helideck for 85-meter seagoing patrol vessel
Nominated for the JEC Innovation Awards 2022, the FRP deck has undergone rigorous impact and hydrocarbon fire tests, proving that it is robust enough to resist a helicopter crash.
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Top five CW news stories for Jan-April 2022
Read news covering recent acquisitions in the composites industry, Joby Aviation’s progress in UAM, the 2022 JEC Innovation Award finalists, repurposing wind blades and James Webb telescope updates.
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Scott Bader commits support to the Indian composites market
Anticipation of +£20 million investment in India over the next five years in addition to supply of composite and adhesive technologies and technical support.
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Magnomatics designs air-cooled propulsion motor for UAM
Carbon ThreeSixty will be evaluating composite materials use to further reduce weight and increase torque for the 86-kilowatt magnetic gear motor.
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INCA Renewtech to build advanced biocomposites manufacturing facility in Alberta, Canada
The fiber processing and composites manufacturing facility will ramp up INCA’s production of highly refined short and long fibers to substitute increasingly scarce balsa wood in boats, wind turbine blades, rail and automotive.
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LIFT Aircraft’s HEXA is awarded Phase 3 contract for Agility Prime program
The rigorous program will continue experimentation and flight testing of the composite eVTOL aircraft, closely following behind U.S. eVTOL developers like Joby, Archer and Beta Technologies.
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First A380 powered by 100% sustainable aviation fuel takes to the skies
This is the third Airbus aircraft type to fly on 100% SAF over the course of 12 months, following an Airbus A350 and A319neo, with a goal of 100% certification for all Airbus aircraft at the end of this decade.
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Saint-Gobain, Roctool join efforts to boost composite 3D textile preform parts manufacturing
3D automated knitted preform layup technology and heat and cooling technologies for additional curing efficiency open a new window of application opportunities for composite and thermoplastic parts.
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