Carbon Fibers

Out of Autoclave 1 Nov 2014

Airframers vie for shares in growing short-haul market

OEMs of aircraft with 150 or fewer seats exploit composites’ appeal to fuel efficiency-conscious regional air carriers.

Autoclave 31 Oct 2014

PMI foam core outperforms honeycomb in infused nose landing gear doors

The results of Airbus (Toulouse, France) subsidiary Composite Technology Centre GmbH's (CTC, Stade, Germany) studies in 2013 to find more productive but less costly methods of fabricating carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sandwich constructions.

Aerospace 31 Oct 2014

The democratization of carbon fiber

Composites industry consultant and regular HPC columnist Dale Brosius says the battle for carbon fiber’s industrial market will be won by suppliers with the lowest costs and greatest capacities.

Recycling 21 Oct 2014

Inside a CAMX session on composites recycling

CW technical editor Sara Black reports on the what some of the composites industry's leading recycling thinkers have to say about carbon fiber reclamation and re-use.

Aerospace 6 Oct 2014

Chomarat opens new C-PLY, C-WEAVE facility in South Carolina

New 58,000-ft2 plant in S.C. targets high-quality, high-performance solutions for aerospace and automotive applications.

Infrastructure 6 Oct 2014

PlastiComp introduces carbon-glass hybrid LFT

The new hybrid composite pellet products combine long glass fiber and long carbon fiber together, bridging the performance gap between either fiber used alone.

Carbon Fibers 6 Oct 2014

Scaled Composites celebrates its accomplishments

A decade after winning the Ansari XPrize for private spaceflight, the company continues to build on its success.

Carbon Fibers 24 Sep 2014

Teijin's high-speed composites manufacturing process: Still a mystery

Since Teijin's 60-second carbon fiber molding process was announced in 2011, we've heard little about it. It would be great for the industry if it could bear fruit soon.

Out of Autoclave 18 Sep 2014

Ultrasound evaluation of prepreg impregnation levels

The Ultran Group has developed non-contact ultrasound (NCU) that can accurately assess prepreg level of impregnation (LOI) with implications for out-of-autoclave processing, inline quality control and even automated tape laying.