Carbon Fibers

Automotive

Hybrid steel/composite transmission gears

Scalable gear design trims heavy-truck weight, preserves wear life, controls cost.

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Adhesives

Plant Tour: Tri-Mack Plastics Manufacturing, Bristol, RI, US

Precision thermoplastics parts manufacturer expands into hybrid composites to help meet OEM demand for higher performance while trimming weight, cost and lead times.

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Aerospace and industrial composites: Now on divergent paths?

The aerospace and industrial markets’ advanced composites challenges and their solutions will differ widely.

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Teijin acquires CSP: A safer growth choice?

Teijin’s presence in Auburn Hills is clearly another step into vertical integration of the supply chain.

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Recycling

Recycled carbon fiber for lower-priced lightweight in heavy trucks?

Though its recent SuperTruck project used CFRP to slash over 3,200 lb, Volvo says it needs lower cost materials like recycled carbon fiber.

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CW Plant Tour: Composite Technology Center, Stade, Germany

A cornerstone of Germany’s CFK Valley, CTC pushes composites forward via automation, recycling, digital thread-based manufacturing and more.

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Automotive

Dyneema Carbon is prepared to handle all impacts

By marrying carbon with Dyneema, impact energy absorption can reportedly be increased by up to 100% while removing the risk of splintering.

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Sustainability

Recyclable epoxy proven in HP-RTM

Recyclamine hardener performs well in global processing trials and cradle-to-cradle recycling demo.

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For the Corvette, a smooth ride depends on composites

On a vehicle already famous for having a long history of composites use, finding a new part on which to apply the material is a challenge, but PolyOne’s Advanced Composites Glasforms unit managed to do just that.

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Aerospace

Is supersonic flight making a comeback?

Boom Technology (Denver, CO, US), a 2014 start-up aircraft developer, is in the process of building the XB-1, a flying 1/3-scale demonstrator of its supersonic (faster than sound) commercial aircraft.

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