Aerospace
Ascent Tooling Group ascends via innovation
The world’s largest metal and composite moldmaker has a new name and continues to make a name for itself in closer control of large-part dimensional tolerance.
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Aerospace still matters
CW columnist Dale Brosius is the head of his own consulting company, which serves clients in the composites industry worldwide. Here, he comments on the still prominent role the aerospace industry will have in the automotive industry's integration of composites into its manufacturing mix.
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Automated composites manufacturing, past, present and future
CW guest columnist Rob Sjostedt is a partner and CEO at VectorSum Inc. He recalls his days at Goldsworthy Engineering and reminds CW readers that today’s product requirements are more challenging than ever, and creative new approaches are required.
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Notes from JEC Europe 2015: Known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns
The composites industry’s largest trade show, JEC Europe, was held March 10-12 in Paris. CW's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan offers his just-back-from-the-show assessment.
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Known knowns, known unknowns, unknown unknowns
JEC Europe 2015, March 10-12 in Paris, shed some light on where composites are, and where they're headed.
Read MoreAt JEC Europe 2015: Hexcel
This Stamford, CT, US-based manufacturer and supplier of advance composite materials displayed components molded with its products for applications in the automotive, wind energy and aerospace markets, and launched a new RTM resin, HexFlow RTM230 ST.
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Solar Impulse 2 Round-the-World attempt begins
Pilots André Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard successfully complete the first leg of what is intended to be a five month global aerial circumnavigation.
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Hutchinson highlights composite axle at JEC 2015
Front and rear axles for the Peugeot 208 integrate four functions, reduce weight by 20 kg and cut assembly steps from 12 to one.
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Making carbon fiber green
Composite Recycling Technology Center is being established in Washington State.
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Cobham Composites: San Diego, CA, US
An aerocomposites force since the dawn of the 1980s, this fabricator’s Big Idea is to move from quality control to in-situ process control on the strength of metrics powered by Big Data.
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