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Aerospace

TPRC joins aviation projects with thermoplastic composites focus

TPRC advanced materials expertise will be applied to Luchtvaart in Transitie and FENIKS with a primary aim to make aviation more sustainable.

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Midnight eVTOL aircraft completes Phase 1 flight testing

Advancing through a third of the program in just three months, Archer continues to make rapid progress toward planned full wing-borne transition flight in Phase 2.

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9T Labs embarks on global tour to highlight AFT for composite parts

The additive manufacturing company welcomes industry to join in upcoming virtual tours, insightful presentations and visit its show booths.

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China’s Sany Renewable rolls out 131-meter wind blade 

Sany reports that it has adopted an optimized airfoil design with greater thickness and a blunt trailing edge to augment strength and stability.

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FET awarded £50,000 AMPI grant for spinneret research

With the help of four universities, computational fluid dynamics studies will be conducted to develop more efficient version of FET’s synthetic polymer processing equipment.

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Automation

Rein4ced, Dieffenbacher automate large-scale production of CFRP bike frames

A synergistic alliance combining Dieffenbacher’s production automation with Rein4ced’s hybrid Feather composite led to fully automated bike frame production line, which will be expanded to other composite products.

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Aerospace

Bombardier forms academic partnership for pan-Canadian EcoJet project

As flight testing ramps up its second phase, University of Victoria Centre for Aerospace Research (CfAR) and British Columbia’s SME Quaternion Aerospace will help explore the blended wing body aircraft configuration and new technologies to reduce business jets emission by up to 50%.

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BriskHeat celebrates 75 years in the industrial heating industry

Founded in 1949, BriskHeat has evolved to serve customers globally, providing flexible surface and immersion heating products, controllers and insulators.

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Automotive

Sonichem launches bio-based materials project for automotive

U.K. initiative, with the NCC, CPI, SHD Composites, Scott Bader and Polestar will work to convert biomass byproduct into lignin for automotive plastics, resins and composites.

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Marine

Artemis Technologies to test electric CTVs for offshore wind

Real-world demonstrations in the U.K. will prove the Artemis EF-24 CTVs capability to operate safely under extreme wind and tide conditions for wind farm operators.

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