Marine

Adhesives

Composite submarine camels win with long-term durability

U.S. Navy wisely opts for more expensive submarine moorings that maximize lifecycle cost efficiency.

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Marine

In America's Cup Finals, rivals are catching up

It's early yet, but challenger New Zealand is beating the Americans at their own game.

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Marine

Whither the marine market?

The marine market was hard hit by the recession, and it's coming back slowly, but is the market big enough to return it to its past glory?

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Marine

IBEX 2013 preview

Louisville gets the nod for the fourth year in 2013, but in 2014 IBEX returns to Florida by popular demand.

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Spread-tow carbon fabrics reduce mass in America’s Cup catamaran

To meet its weight and cost goals for this year's America's Cup, cup defenders ORACLE TEAM USA turned to Oxeon AB’s (Borås, Sweden) trademarked TeXtreme Spread Tow carbon reinforcements.

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Aerospace

Janicki Industries: Breaking the mold

Once known only as a toolmaker, Janicki offers unique precision, production capability and problem solving as it pioneers leading-edge composites technology.

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Pultruding polyurethane: Sheet pilings break boundaries

High-pressure pultrusion process creates polyurethane composite sheet pile system with the strength and stiffness to compete with steel.

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Infusion

The structural grid: Prefabrication

Digitally designed and cut, preformed and preinfused stringers and bulkheads reduce boat weight, labor and cycle time and improve boatbuilder process control.

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Bonding

Paddleboard productivity: Adhesively bonded hull/deck is key

Dragonfly Boatworks LLC's (Vero Beach, Fla.) new standup paddleboard for fly fishing is built without fasteners, with the aid of SG200-40 methacrylate adhesive from SCIGRIP Smarter Adhesive Solutions (Durham, N.C.).

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Weaving

IBEX 2012 Review

Under the banner “The Future of Marine Technology,” the 22nd International BoatBuilders’ expo confronts a brave new world.

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