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Aerotech Academy Puglia is inaugurated at Leonardo Aerospace site in Grottaglie, Italy

Joining the Leonardo MaTeRIA Lab and Joint Lab with Syensqo, this aerostructures training  course will be 75% materials science and structural design/analysis, 25% digital transformation and AI.

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Aerospace

Boeing board names Kelly Ortberg president and CEO

Respected industry veteran with more than 35 years of aerospace experience succeeds Dave Calhoun as of Aug. 8.

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Black Hawk program receives improved turbine engine with CMC

GE Aerospace T901 flight test engines will replace GE T700 for the UH-60M Black Hawk helicopter, using additive manufacturing and ceramic matrix composites (CMC) for 1,000 shaft horsepower increase.

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Aerospace

GKN Aerospace inaugurates Chihuahua facility expansion, enhances composite structures assembly capacity

Enhanced production to support North American customers including HondaJet and Gulfstream.

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Thermoplastics

Hitachi Rail chooses Roboze printers, materials including carbon fiber/PEEK for railway spare parts

The Roboze ARGO 500 will be used at Hitachi Rail factories in Naples, Italy and Maryland, U.S. to reduce cost and delivery times for prototypes and spare parts.

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Hufschmied Zerspanungssysteme, specialist in composites machining, establishes branch in the U.S.

Supplier of material- and process-optimized cutting tools and technology for CFRP, GFRP and CMC, as well as metals, opened its Chicago facility August 1, 2024.

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Prepregs

Angeloni Group announces new logistics center

1,500-square-meter refrigerated area to expand global prepreg distribution capabilities. 

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Thermoplastics

Kautex wins SPE Grand Innovation Award for thermoplastic composite battery enclosure with integrated cooling

Second award for Pentatonic Battery Enclosures touts innovative design, enabling two-phase cooling for safe temperatures, high charging rates.

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Aerospace

Archer reaffirms high-volume facility completion for 2024

400,000-square-foot facility will support Archer's goal of producing up to 650 Midnight aircraft per year.

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Carbon Fibers

Teijin lightweight materials enable VAIO portable displays

Teijin's Tenax TPCL and Panlite Sheet materials allow for the creation of complex, three-dimensional shapes in a single molding step.

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