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Diab, Brødrene AA celebrate 50 years of composite ferry innovation, sustainability

Partners reflect on the increasing use of Diab foam core and GFRP, CFRP composites in Brødrene AA construction over the years, resulting in lightweight, high-performance and efficient marine craft.

Circular business demonstrations support sustainable, lightweight applications

JEC World 2024: Diab shares its knowledge about being a circular business, further exemplified through its display of solutions like a recycled PET foam wash basin, subsea materials and aircraft interior panels.

JEC World 2023 highlights: Recyclable resins, renewable energy solutions, award-winning automotive

CW technical editor Hannah Mason recaps some of the technology on display at JEC World, including natural, bio-based or recyclable materials solutions, innovative automotive and renewable energy components and more.

DIAB commits to circular business model

Diab uses recycled raw materials to make core materials; Diab customers can use such products with recycled content to help lower their carbon footprint and Diab assists in reusing its products at end of life.

JEC Composites Innovation Award 2023 winners

The JEC Group has announced the winner for each of the ten Innovation Award categories. Learn more about the winners, their projects and future expectations in person or via livestreaming at JEC World 2023.

JEC Composites presents 2023 Innovation Award finalists

This year’s 30 Innovation Award finalists representing 11 categories portray excellence in composites innovation and fruitful collaboration.

Diab Divinycell HM foam lightweights Mayla 44 electric powerboat

Ultra-high-performance powerboat achieves high weight reduction with carbon fiber sandwich construction of the deck, internal structure and the complete hull surface.

Prefabricated composite panels, joining system ease catamaran construction

New Zealand-based G&T Marine reduces assembly and construction time with ATL Composites’ composite DuFLEX panels.

Lufthansa Technik, Diab develop greener composites for interior cabin components

Aeroflax flax fiber-based prepreg and one-step thermoplastic manufacturing process for 100% recyclable panels production pioneer lighter weight, reduce CO2 emissions.

JEC World 2022, Part 3: Emphasizing emerging markets, thermoplastics and carbon fiber

CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan identifies companies exhibiting at JEC World 2022 that are advancing both materials and technologies for the growing AAM, hydrogen, automotive and sustainability markets.

CorPower Ocean partners with Diab for full-scale wave energy converter

Diab provides foam core, engineering support to enable CorPower’s first commercial-scale composite filament-wound WEC.

Diab reduces carbon footprint by 46%

Between 2016 and 2021, the sandwich composite solutions company made alterations in material, reduced waste and efficient use of waste, production and energy sources to drive its reduction efforts.

JEC World reveals 2022 Innovation Awards finalists

Innovation Awards celebrate successful projects and fostered cooperation between players in the composite industry, with 30 finalists in ten categories.

Full process, quality control brings Diab closer to Composites 4.0

Developed by 2550 Engineering, an automated inline system helps measures 100% of samples in real time, ensuring a complete quality control process.

Industrial-scale wave energy system enabled by mobile filament winding

Sweden-based CorPower Ocean designed its 9-meter-long, filament-wound GFRP buoy prototype for high-efficiency, durable wave energy generation and fast, on-site manufacture.

Diab acquires SABIC’s ULTEM foam production line

The recyclable PEI thermoplastic foam will be incorporated into Diab’s portfolio under Divinycell U to be produced, sold and further developed.

Composite vaccine shipment container incorporates Diab structural core

The Envirotainer RAP e2 container is being used to ship COVID-19 vaccines globally.

Diab Group, SKAPS Ltd India partner to produce PET foam core

Diab and SKAPS will build a PET foam production plant in Ahmedabad, India to support growing demand for foam core by the country’s wind energy sector.

Nexam Chemical extends cooperation with Diab

Diab’s PET foam products contain Nexam Chemical's additive NEXAMITE technology.

Diab Group signs core material supply contract with Vestas

Under the five-year contract, Diab will supply PET and PVT-based core materials for Vestas wind turbine blades.

Composite catamaran hits high watermarks

Inspired by design elements found in racing catamarans and employing composite structures in innovative ways, Compmillennia has rolled out a fishing/excursion cat that uniquely combines high speed, great fuel economy and a smooth ride.

Diab and Porcelanosa Group create lightweight composite panel

The building panel comprises ceramic and aluminum layers with a Divinycell P core.

Racing catamaran still performing

Gougeon Brothers Inc. created a composite racing catamaran in 1990 that is still setting speed records decades later.

People on the Move: June 2018

CW’s monthly roundup of people on the move in the composites industry.

Low weight on the high seas

A new, award-winning composite shipbuilding material saves fuel, increases car shipping capacity.

McNair Aerospace Center: Closing the composites education gap

As the composites industry in South Carolina continues to expand through Boeing and its tier suppliers, composites education follows suit through the McNair Center.

European SAMPE meeting explores composites innovation

High spots from SAMPE Europe’s Summit 17.

Another opportunity to meet, and learn, in Paris

At the JEC World 2017, improvements in materials and processes were present at nearly every stand, with the emphasis on automotive-capable production speeds.

JEC World 2017 exhibit preview

JEC World will be held March 14-16 in Paris. CW previews some of the products and technologies that will be at the show.

Cored carbon air-supported vessel

Tuco Marine’s ASV a sustainable yet speedy craft.

Swedish show truck turns heads

Fifty-one years ago, Swedish car mechanic Sven-Erik Bergendahl, nicknamed Svempa, started his tow truck business with a 1957 Plymouth sedan that he transformed into a truck, and since then, Svempa has created eye-catching and souped-up tow vehicles for car and truck shows across Europe.

Electric ferry runs quietly with composites

Infused sandwich construction hull and superstructure panels offset battery system weight.

Back-country boating: Carbon fiber Adirondack pack canoe

Placid Boatworks (Lake Placid, NY, US) makes modern composite versions of classic, but relatively heavy, Adirondack pack canoes, using vacuum-infused carbon fiber. Here's how.

Buoyant buildings: Modular design relies on cored composites

Arquitectura en el Agua’s (AEEA, Santa Cruz, Tenerife, Canary Islands) architects and engineers convert for metal to composites for their floating modular structures for marinas, harbors, restaurants, hotels and leisure centers.

Public transit: Modular composites update Sao Paulo ferries

When the Brazilian state of São Paulo, through its state-controlled company DERSA, funded new composite superstructures for 12 existing car ferries, Barracuda Advanced Composites (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) specified materials and engineered the new design.

Why are suppliers morphing into fabricators?

CT managing editor Mike Musselman asks the question and examines the forces at work to make it a compelling trend. Part I of II.

Sportfishing yacht: Infusion optimized

This well-loved deepsea fishing brand has moved from Miami to a new facility, and to a state-of-the-art resin-infused laminate for its Bertram 64.

Bus station pavilion: A marriage of design and manufacture

Architectural design studio and boatbuilder cooperate to make this passenger terminal "first" a first-class showpiece.

IBEX 2013 Show Review

Evidence of a marine industry rebound and a trend toward supplier M&A as the world’s largest boatbuilding trade show looks ahead to smoother sailing … and Tampa.

Aiming infusion at the application

With so many process variables to play with, how do you know which new solutions that promise better, faster infusion are right for your application?

Infusion of aerostructures: Doubling down on the details

For this carbon-fiber composite manufacturer, little things make big differences in a not-quite-new but still novel double-bag infusion technique.

Carbon is the choice for amphibious LSA floats

Superlight, landing-gear-equipped design gives light sport aircraft builders an option for land and water.

WINDPOWER 2012 report

Continued technology-driven performance gains are overshadowed by PTC gloom and predicted Asian overcapacity.

Tooling block makes affordable patterns for new superlight aircraft

Tooling for a new canard-winged pusher airplane, the e-Go (e-Go Airplanes of Cambridge, U.K.), was created from patterns made of EP678 epoxy tooling block, supplied by the Advanced Engineering Materials Product Group of Trelleborg Offshore UK (Skelmersdale, Lancashire, U.K.)

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