Marine

Automotive

Increased competition from metals

Boeing and Airbus are developing new, lightweight, corrosion-resistant metals that are targeting composites' traditional niche in the material sphere.

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RTM

CAMX 2015: Automotive, military innovations and on-floor demos

ACMA’s and SAMPE’s second combined event featured plenty of new products and thought-provoking conference sessions for the composites industry.

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Defense

CW Business Index at 44.6 — Contraction again in September

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

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Filament Winding

New 250°F/120°C No Oven No Autoclave epoxy

Designed for room-temp infusion and filament winding with 2-hr no-heat-added cure or 15-30 min heated cure without post-cure for flexible processing of marine, industrial and energy structures.

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Hi-Temp Resins

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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Molds/Tools

Boat builder Lyman-Morse creates aerospace composite prototype

Prototypes for such clients as the Department of Defense and other government and private sector businesses has become an increasingly important segment of the the company’s business plan.

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Marine

Report from IBEX 2015

As always, IBEX supplied new products, processes and education, not only to boatbuilders, but to the composites industry overall.

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Glass Fibers

Composite pontoons undergird update of 1820s-vintage floating bridge

Modular composite flotation system triples potential lifespan of New England town’s signature single-lane auto/pedestrian timber bridge.

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Wind/Energy

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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Consumer

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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Airtech
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HEATCON Composite Systems
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