Electric Vehicles

Epoxy hardener designed for SMCs in e-mobility applications

Evonik has launched VESTALITE S, an epoxy hardener designed for sheet molding compounds (SMCs) in electric vehicles and other automotive applications.

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Sustainability

Henkel to collaborate with Carbon Revolution on composite wheels

Henkel and Carbon Revolution join forces to speed OEM automotive one-piece carbon fiber wheels development. 

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Trends

All-composite wheel for electric vehicles wins funding

A project to develop the world’s first commercially viable, low cost, lightweight, all-composite wheel for electric and niche vehicles such as driverless cars wins grant funding of £135,500.

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Automotive

Cevotec system saves time, material in hydrogen storage vessel production

The company’s SAMBA-series fiber patch placement technology applies carbon fiber patches to the dome area to produce storage vessels for fuel cell electric vehicles.

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Electronics

LANXESS commissions two new production lines for Tepex thermoplastic composites

The 1,500-square-meter expansion to the Brilon, Germany facility increases production of the continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites by 50%.

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Voith Composites, HRC to develop hydrogen pressure vessels for EVs

The next-generation filament-wound composite high pressure vessels will be designed for use with fuel cell electric vehicles.

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Out of Autoclave

Can the automotive industry turn to face the change?

SPE ACCE speakers speculate about how changing consumer behaviors might shape the automotive industry.

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Aerospace

Riding the rollercoaster that is the aerospace industry

The Boeing’s 787 and the Airbus A350 XWB plunged the commercial aerospace supply chain into a period of instability from which it has only just emerged. The next generation of commercial aircraft production promises to be just as tumultuous.

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Autoclave

Plant Tour: Veelo Technologies, Woodlawn, Ohio, U.S.

Advanced materials company evolves from nanomaterials to multifunctional composites and processing solutions.

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Out of Autoclave

National Composites Week: Improving Lives

As we celebrate National Composites Week, here are just a few of the many ways the composites industry is working to improve our lives.

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IRIS Ai-enabled Camera
CIJECT machines and monitoring systems
NewStar Adhesives - Nautical Adhesives
Airtech
Visual of lab with a yellow line
Keyland Polymer Webinar Coatings on Composite & AM
HEATCON Composite Systems
Large Scale Additive Manufacturing
Airtech International Inc.