Editorial
The democratization of composites is reconfiguring supply chains
New robotic and digital technologies are enabling advanced in-house capabilities for small companies and innovative suppliers willing to embrace the move toward more affordable, sustainable composites.
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175 composites editorials and counting
This is my 175th CW editorial. That’s 104,322 words. I created a word cloud to celebrate.
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Assessing a composites supply chain in flux
The global pandemic, shipping woes and winter storms have wreaked havoc on the composites supply chain. CW attempts to find out how widespread the problem is.
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Shooting trouble
CW launches The Troubleshooter, a new column designed to help you identify, assess and correct the technical challenges that can plague composites manufacturing operations.
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Lessons learned, a year later
When the pandemic struck, we yearned for normality. Getting back there will take time and patience.
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The evolution of the commercial aerospace landscape
Following the grounding of the 737 and the downturn caused by the pandemic, Boeing finds itself a distant second to Airbus. What should it do?
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What a difference a year makes
If 2020 was bad, then 2021 can only be better. CW Editor-in-Chief Jeff Sloan discusses the promising and not-so-promising industry trends leading up to 2021.
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And the winners are...
As 2020 comes to an end, CW Editor-in-Chief Jeff Sloan takes a look at the stories over the last 12 months that garnered the most attention on the CW website.
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The meaning of next-generation
When the past becomes the present and the present becomes the future, the future starts looking a lot like the past. Got that?
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Composites durability and an asymmetrical pandemic
Highly engineered, long-life products, like those made with composites, even if thrown off stride by a recession, have a built-in time horizon that extends beyond the timescale of the pandemic.
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