Aerospace
TRB chosen to supply materials for Airbus A380 luxury suites
TRB Lightweight Structures and Safran partnered to produce luxury suites featuring phenolic panels.
Read MoreDaher acquires KVE Composites Group
The acquisition is intended to extend Daher’s thermoplastic composites capabilities for structural aircraft components.
Read MoreLarge, high-volume, infused composite structures on the aerospace horizon
Infused carbon fiber composite structures are not new, but they have never been built at the rates anticipated for next-generation, single-aisle aircraft. It is a daunting prospect — but a feasible one.
Read MoreFACC to open composites facility in Croatia
The facility will build composite cabin components for commercial and business aircraft.
Read MorePlant Tour: STELIA Aerospace, Méaulte, France
Supplier of Airbus fuselage sections pushes boundaries of hybrid aerostructures production, assembly and thermoplastic composites.
Read MoreTackling the aerospace supplier’s dilemma: Scalability
Automation and robotics can go a long way toward increasing capacity and growing a business dedicated to aerospace manufacturing. But Trinity Precision has learned that refining the indirect and unseen aspects of its operations can be just as valuable.
Read MoreMission critical: An additive manufacturing breakthrough in commercial aviation
The GE9X is the first commercial aircraft engine to reach production with significant additive content. The story of GE’s accomplishment and why it matters.
Read MoreSolvay epoxy-based film for prepregs
Solvay Composite Materials has developed FusePly, an epoxy-based film that is designed to co-cure with a prepreg and provide a chemically active surface that reacts with functional groups in adhesives to create a covalently bonded structure.
Read MoreTechnical Fibre Products microfiber support veils
Technical Fibre Products has launched its range of next-generation surfacing and adhesive support veils, for superior flexibility and surface smoothness.
Read MoreLAP Laser laser-based camera system for composites fabrication
LAP Laser (Lüneberg, Germany) has introduced the DTEC-PRO camera system, a laser-based ply-placement vertification system designed to increase efficiency in composites manufacturing for aerospace applications.
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