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New low-cost, high-temp resins

MG Resins offer a suite of properties and processing that could potentially revolutionize sectors of the composites industry.

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Wind/Energy

CFK-Valley Stade Convention 2015 report

The composites industry in Germany is preparing for the 4th Industrial Revolution.

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Aerospace

CAMX 2015 Preview

ACMA’s and SAMPE’s 2nd combined event promises a conference and exhibition of unprecedented scale and value to composite manufacturers from all corners of the composites world.

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Wind/Energy

CW Business Index at 42.9 – Lowest since December 2012

Steve Kline, Jr., the director of market intelligence for Gardner Business Media Inc. (Cincinnati, OH, US), the publisher of CompositesWorld magazine, presents the CompositesWorld Business Index for the US composites industry through August 2015.

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Out of Autoclave

Is a composites technical talent shortage looming?

Regular CW columnist Dale Brosius, also the chief commercialization officer for the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI, Knoxville, TN, US), calls for more schools with curricula that mint engineers with undergraduate degrees in composites.

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Consumer

Selling your business, Part 1: The best price with the best deal

Adrian Williams, co-founder and managing director of Future Materials Group (Cambridge, UK), begins a two-part advisory for owners of composites manufacturing businesses interested in placing their companies on the market.

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Defense

San Diego Composites canisters complete two successful launches

San Diego Composites' Lightweight Low-Cost Canister is part of a US Army-sponsored SBIR program.

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Automotive

CW Business Index at 48.0 – Lowest since July 2013

Steve Kline, Jr. is the director of market intelligence for Gardner Business Media Inc. (Cincinnati, OH, US), the publisher of CompositesWorld magazine. Here, he presents the CompositesWorld Business Index, a measure of the relative health of the US composites industry, for the month of July 2015.

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Defense

Some thoughts on the M&A "heat wave"

CompositesWorld's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan takes some admittedly educated guesses at the significance of the six momentous acquisitions that were announced in the short space from mid-July through early August in the composites industry.

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Wind/Energy

Additive manufacturing: The past, present — and future — of composites

A regular CW columnist and the chief commercialization officer for the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI), Dale Brosius offers this insightful look into why it's unwise to use the terms "3D printing" and "additive manufacturing" interchangeably.

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Wickert Hydraulic Presses
Fire Retardant Epoxies
Composites One
Nanoparticles filled epoxy adhesives
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Park Aerospace Corp.
IRIS Ai-enabled Camera
Composites One