Automotive
Lightweighting summit: Targeting composites auto powertrain opportunities
The Lightweight Composites Solution Conference, held May 17 in Gent, Belgium, focused on materials and designs for reducing automotive powertrain weight.
Read MoreCan we achieve global standards for composites?
It is the relative lack of such standards that presents one of the highest hurdles to composites adoption, and also is incredibly difficult to address.
Read MoreComposites perform water rescue in high-speed rail tunnel
Channeling out the great quantities of water that flow into Spain’s Pajares railway tunnels in the Cantabria Mountain range required an award-winning composites innovation.
Read MoreGenerative design and continuous 3D fiber deposition
Generative design replicates nature’s evolutionary approach by combining artificial intelligence (AI) and cloud computing to provide thousands of solutions to one engineering problem.
WatchUniversity of Bologna, CMS team up for American Solar Challenge
The Emilia 4 solar car is based on the use of a series of high-tech features including advanced materials such as carbon fiber laminates.
Read MoreVolvo XC60 demonstrator employs Bcomp's natural fiber reinforcement technology
Bcomp’s renewable fiber reinforcements are used in interior panels in the recycled plastics demonstrator vehicle XC60 to overcome the degraded properties of recycled plastic.
Read MoreAudi, Airbus air-taxi to test in Ingolstadt
Urban Air Mobility project to be a model for air-taxi test operation and gain insight into developing new mobility concepts for cities.
Read MoreEconCore licenses Fynotej for NA automotive applications and advances into high-performance thermoplastics (HPT)
Branded Fynocore, these panels have a PP honeycomb core with skins – thermally bonded in-line – in either solid PP sheet or including a non-woven surface finish.
Read MoreTRB develops biocomposite prepreg rail carriage door leaf
The new biocomposite door leaf product has been designed and fire rated for both overground and underground rail use.
Read MoreCSP Van Wert Facility turns 40
Continental Structural Plastics compounding facility in Van Wert is celebrating 40 years in business.
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