Cutting/Kitting

1 May 2006

Laser Imaging Material Speeds Aircraft Parts Into Production

A simple product is having a significant impact on composites fabrication at the Boeing Phantom Works' Accelerated Digital Design and Manufacturing (ADDM) group in St. Louis. RegiStar, a trademarked laser-imageable tape from Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials (Marlborough, Mass.), was developed as a marking system for

1 May 2006

Sky's The Limit For Composites-intensive UAVs

Market growth is being spurred primarily by post-9/11 combat actions, homeland security and natural disasters.

1 Apr 2006

Robot streamlines finishing of composite antenna covers

Sparks Fiberglass' (Rock Island, Ill.) first order for 50 8-ft/15.2m long fiberglass antenna covers for cellular telephone towers in 1998 kicked off a growth period for the company, in which manufacturing space quickly became scarce. When the company moved to a larger facility, it began looking for alternatives to the

1 Mar 2006

Thermoplastic composites gain leading edge on the A380

Breakthrough manufacturing process produces lightweight, affordable glass-reinforced PPS J-nose on the worlds largest commercial aircraft wing.

1 Feb 2006

Innovative Composite Design May Replace Aluminum Chassis

It's been called the automotive engineer's dream material. Able to assume any shape while delivering stiffness, strength and light weight, carbon fiber has been the material of choice for years in structural components and stylishly aerodynamic exterior panels on race cars and exotic supercars costing more th

1 Jan 2006

F1 Racing Team Speeds Chassis Design/production With Aerospace Software

The Renault Formula1 racing team (Enstone, U.K.) builds its car chasses, wings and other components from composites. Tight manufacturing control and fast turnaround are crucial to meet race schedules. The team recently chose VISTAGY Inc.'s (Waltham, Mass.) trademarked FiberSIM software to help streamline its design