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Composite processing technologies integrate press, injection molding

CAMX 2024: Langzauner and Engel present combined systems for semi-finished composite processing in a single process step.

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.

Composites end markets: Automotive (2024)

Recent trends in automotive composites include new materials and developments for battery electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell technologies, and recycled and bio-based materials.

HyWaSand demonstrates large-series production potential for automotive TP sandwich components

Storage compartment flap for truck interior produced via fully automated continuous fiber thermoplastic sandwich molding technology shows suitability for series manufacture.

Plant tour: Victrex Composites Solutions, Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.

De-risking thermoplastic composites at industrial scale via hybrid overmolding.

Fraunhofer commissions automated Engel production cells for thermoplastic composite R&D

Fraunhofer PAZ pilot plant center installs v-duo 700 vertical machine and duo 900 injection molding machine to combine thermoplastic composite processes with a variety of injection molding technologies.

Fill, Engel develop consolidation system for high-quality composite component production

Handed over to the Linz Institute of Technology, the consolidation unit processes high-temperature materials reliably, flexibly and with 60-second cycle times.

Engel, Fill develop automated cell for thermoplastic composites

The system combines a tape-laying cell with a consolidation unit to produce fit-for-purpose blanks with 15-30 tapes in 1-minute intervals.

JEC Group announces 2020 Innovation Awards winners

The 13 winners were announced during a virtual ceremony on May 13.

Engel launches forming and functionalization of organic sheets

Production cell demonstrates the forming and functionalization of organic sheets and unidirectional tapes in one injection molding step.

Research project reports potential for tape inserts in injection molding

The research consortium, led by the Aachen Center for Integrative Lightweight Production and the Institute for Plastics Processing at RWTH Aachen University, will present its results at K 2019.

ENGEL unveils IR robotic cell for large-series production of lightweight thermoplastic composites

Infrared radiation heats up and forms three organic sheets of differing thicknesses, for aesthetic surfaces while overmolding.

Hexcel molding compound enables high-volume, zero-waste process

The company’s HexMC-i 2000 high-performance molding compound has been used to produce a carbon fiber-reinforced plastic (CFRP) transmission crossmember using a zero-waste process well-suited for high-volume manufacture.

NCC and Surface Generation partner to demonstrate thermoplastic overmolding capabilities

The two companies together have produced a number of carbon fiber reinforced / PA6 automotive demonstrators which are due to be assessed by an automotive OEM.

Fast manufacturing of tailored composite blanks

AZL and 12 partner companies have completed a research project to develop a new machine prototype allowing increased speed for manufacturing tailored composite blanks.

IRG CosiMo thermoplastic composites consortium unveils new facilities

IRG CosiMo combines companies along the whole thermoplastic composites process chain from materials to processing machinery to applications in automotive and aerospace.

Automated Preforming, Part 7: Fill Gesellschaft

Fill automates preforming for 1-min cycle time overmolded thermoplastic automotive parts but supplies automation throughout aero- and autocomposites process chains.

Overmolding as enabler for composites, aerospace to automotive

CCP Gransden can make 50 to 100,000 parts/yr economically viable using PEEK, PPS, PEI or PA.

Plant Tour: Fraunhofer ICT, Pfinztal, Germany

This wide-ranging research center works with government and industry to develop the best of polymer composite processing, across a range of technologies.

A look inside Fraunhofer ICT

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Munich, Germany) is the largest applied research organization in Europe, with more than 67 institutes and research units located throughout Germany staffed by 24,500 people, mostly scientists and engineers. CW recently got a chance to tour one, Fraunhofer ICT in Pfintzal, Germany.

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Composite processing technologies integrate press, injection molding

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

Composites end markets: Automotive (2024)

HyWaSand demonstrates large-series production potential for automotive TP sandwich components

Plant tour: Victrex Composites Solutions, Bristol, Rhode Island, U.S.

Fraunhofer commissions automated Engel production cells for thermoplastic composite R&D

Fill, Engel develop consolidation system for high-quality composite component production

Engel, Fill develop automated cell for thermoplastic composites

JEC Group announces 2020 Innovation Awards winners

Engel launches forming and functionalization of organic sheets

Research project reports potential for tape inserts in injection molding

ENGEL unveils IR robotic cell for large-series production of lightweight thermoplastic composites

Hexcel molding compound enables high-volume, zero-waste process

NCC and Surface Generation partner to demonstrate thermoplastic overmolding capabilities

Fast manufacturing of tailored composite blanks

IRG CosiMo thermoplastic composites consortium unveils new facilities

Automated Preforming, Part 7: Fill Gesellschaft

Overmolding as enabler for composites, aerospace to automotive

Plant Tour: Fraunhofer ICT, Pfinztal, Germany

A look inside Fraunhofer ICT

Preforming goes industrial: Part 1

Breathing-mold process yields sandwich composite from LFT

JEC World 2016 exhibition and product previews

Turnkey manufacturing systems: Materials, markets and maturation

Engel: Full speed ahead on composites R&D

The rise of HP-RTM

Thermoplastic composites feel the love at NPE2015

Infusible thermoplastics via in-situ polymerization

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