Carbon Fibers
What the Detroit Auto Show does and does not show
There are composites seen and unseen at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, and hints about what the next few years might bring.
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Top composites blog articles of 2015
Blog articles about additive manufacturing, 777X composite wings and colored carbon fiber all generated your interest in 2015.
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Wet compression molding
Automated process cuts cycle time and cost for CFRP parts with potential for 65% fiber volume via Dynamic Fluid Compression Molding variant.
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Carbon Fiber: Refiguring the supply/demand equation
CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan returns from Carbon Fiber 2015 in Knoxville TN, US, with news that carbon fiber demand will outstrip supply by 2020, prompting expansion in the 2018-2019 timeframe that could include sources in China.
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New Year’s resolutions
CW contributing writer and composites industry consultant Dale Brosius, who presently serves as chief commercialization officer for the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI, Knoxville, TN, US), imagines an automotive world where composites are king, then — more realistically — calls on the industry to resolve to make it capable of worthy service.
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Turnkey manufacturing systems: Part-per-minute thermoplastic composites
Pinette Emidecau Industries’ (PEI, Chalon-sur-Saône, France) leads a consortium of providers that are collaborating on the Quilted Stratum Process (QSP), a means to accelerate thermoplastic composites processing in the auto industry.
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Turnkey manufacturing systems: Automated RTM for aerospace
German Aerospace Center’s (DLR) Center for Lightweight Production Technology site in Stade, Germany, has developed EVo, an automated production line capable of 100,000 complex composite parts/yr.
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Candidates sought: Professor of Composite Materials
Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) is seeking candidates to fill a vacancy for the position of Professor of Composite Materials.
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Candidates sought: Associate Professor of Polymer Chemistry
Deakin University (Geelong, Australia) is seeking candidates to fill a vacancy for the position of Associate Professor of Polymer Chemistry.
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For carbon fiber, the future certainly looks bright
CompositesWorld's annual Carbon Fiber conference last week included an upbeat outlook for the supply and demand of carbon fiber, with particularly strong growth expected in automotive, pressure vessels and energy development.
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