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SAMPE 2017: Highlights
SAMPE returned to Seattle, WA, US, May 22-25 and featured the usual mix of conference presentations and exhibit hall activity. CW was there and offers this summary of highlights from the event.
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Automated Preforming, Part 2: Glide Forming
Flat layups are shaped into stringers with different cross-sections, lengths, thicknesses and curvatures using a single machine at rates up to 10 mm per second.
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3D TPC structural preforming process lightens car doors
Automated cell manufactures and pre-impregnates continuous-fiber 3D preforms for injection/compression overmolding of parts with complex shapes, and tailored structural properties.
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Composites recycling: Gaining traction
Recycling of carbon fiber, glass fiber and — at last — resins, is growing as new players enter the space.
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Another opportunity to meet, and learn, in Paris
At the JEC World 2017, improvements in materials and processes were present at nearly every stand, with the emphasis on automotive-capable production speeds.
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Toho Tenax rolls out thermoplastic recycling solution
Tenax-E COMPOUND rPEEK CF30 features waste materials from production of the company's ThermoPlastics material and contains semicrystalline PEEK polymer.
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Injection overmolded composites demo comes to conclusion
Researchers at the Thermoplastic Composites Research Center in The Netherlands have proved the viability of injection molding a grid-stiffened composite panel.
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JEC World 2017 exhibit preview
JEC World will be held March 14-16 in Paris. CW previews some of the products and technologies that will be at the show.
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Material supplier, manufacturer marry in oil and gas
Victrex and Magma Global, which have a long history of cooperation in the oil and gas industry, inched closer together with Victrex taking a minority interest in the composite pipe manufacturer.
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Plant Tour: Tri-Mack Plastics Manufacturing, Bristol, RI, US
Precision thermoplastics parts manufacturer expands into hybrid composites to help meet OEM demand for higher performance while trimming weight, cost and lead times.
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