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AWEA releases US Wind Industry Annual Market Report
The American Wind Energy Association’s comprehensive report for year ending 2017 covers the latest and most relevant wind industry trends, market rankings and sector activity.
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TPI Composites and Vestas add two new wind blade manufacturing lines in Mexico
TPI Composites will produce blades for Vestas’ 4 MW wind turbine platform at TPI’s new facility in Matamoros, Mexico.
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TPI Composites enters wind blade partnership with Enercon
The 60m class blades will be produced at one of TPI’s facilities in Izmir, Turkey with production planned to commence in Q4 2018.
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People on the Move: May 2018
CW’s monthly roundup of people on the move in the composites industry.
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Pultruded composites market growing, says EPTA
The European Pultrusion Technology Association (EPTA, Frankfurt, Germany) has published an in-depth report on its highly successful 2018 conference, held in Vienna on March 1-2, 2018. The 12-page document, World Pultrusion Conference 2018: Attractive Long-Term Prospects for Pultruded Composites, is available to download from the EPTA website.
Read MoreSaertex develops glass-fiber reinforcement material for wind-turbine rotor blades
The new high-strength glass unidirectional fabric achieves tensile strengths that are reportedly up to 20% higher than conventional glass UD fabrics
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ACMA launches online composites education resource
New online resource educates end users about the possibilities of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials.
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Euro study seeks optimally damage-tolerant infrastructure composites
A research project involving participants from five European countries, Damage Controlled Composite Materials, will seek more damage-tolerant composite materials for bridges, buildings, wind turbine blades and offshore structures.
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The spread of spread tow
Advancing from “lighter and thinner” to boosting strength, stiffness, impact resistance and productivity, spread tow unlocks new applications and markets.
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Solvay launches high-performance carbon fiber tape for offshore oil and gas applications
Evolite F1050 is a market first high-performance thermoplastic composite with continuous carbon fiber reinforcement for demanding offshore oil and gas applications.
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