Materials

Consumer

ShapeTex preforms successfully overmolded with short fiber SMC

Shape Group successfully combines continuous carbon fiber preform with epoxy sheet molding compound using compression molding.

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Wind/Energy

Cygnet Texkimp and University of Manchester develop 3D winding technology

The machine is based on a 9-Axis robotic winding concept and winds carbon fiber into lightweight parts for automotive and aerospace markets.

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Carbon Fibers

CW Talks catches up with Tom Lemire

CW Talks: The Composites Podcast chats with composites industry veteran Tom Lemire, whose experience ranges from selling Owens Corning glass fiber to Toho Tenax carbon fiber. 

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Glass Fibers

OPTIPLAN to present composite material for commercial vehicles

OPTIPLAN’s POLYDET PowerStar Plus is designed to help to achieve a reduced vehicle weight and thus higher payload as well as lower fuel consumption and pollutant emission.

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Aerospace

Second MC-21 test aircraft completes successful flight

Irkut Corp.’s infused carbon fiber composite wing aircraft reaches a milestone with a successful six-hour test flight.

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Carbon Fibers

Sustainable thermoplastics and additive manufacturing alliance forms in Colorado

Vartega, the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association and a group of industry and academic partners have founded an Advanced Materials and Additive Manufacturing Infrastructure Development and Education (AMIDE) Alliance.

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Aerospace

How the CMC process works

GE Aviation releases video walking through their complete process chain for ceramic matrix composites.

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Rhodes Interform manufactures composite press for AMRC

The new facility is capable of a wide range of composite forming including open and closed molding, resin transfer molding (RTM), prepreg, compression molding and thermoplastics.

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Braiding

Tour de France and bicycles: a showcase for composites

Senior editor Sara Black offers a round up of CW’s reporting over the years about composite bikes and the design efforts and complex materials that go into them.

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Prepregs

Composites Evolution opens new UK prepreg manufacturing facility

The company has now completed the final stage of its move to a new prepreg manufacturing facility in Chesterfield, UK.

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