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IBEX 2014 report

A new home port in Florida and fair economic winds propel this boatbuilders’ convention to its best exhibitor/attendee turnout in years.

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Aerospace

CAMX 2014 show report

Bigger, better and more inclusive than any previous U.S. composites trade event, the inaugural show turns North American eyes forward to the future.

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Autoclave

UK's Composites Engineering Show features latest in composites technology

Composites technologies for automotive, mass transit and aerospace abounded at the Composites Engineering Show in Birmingham, UK, Nov. 11-12.

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Automotive

Recycled carbon fiber update: The supply side

Commercial recyclers aren’t alone in their pursuit of fiber reclamation. Textile converters have joined the effort.

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Aerospace

Recycled carbon fiber update: Closing the CFRP lifecycle loop

Commercial production of recycled carbon fiber currently outpaces applications for it, but materials characterization and new technology demonstrations promise to close the gap.

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Sustainability

CAMISMA’s car seat back: Hybrid composite for high volume

Recycled fibers, in-situ polymerized PA12 and steel inserts combined in one-shot process to cut weight 40 percent at competitive cost, cycle time and safety.

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Aerospace

Aerospace and automotive: Convergence on the horizon?

Guest columnist and composites industry consultant Dale Brosius reviews his own history with composites to support his contention that the once very different worlds of aerospace and automobile manufacture are not, as far as composites are concerned, so different anymore.

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Braiding

Beyond adaptation: Real metamorphosis

Guest columnist Jim Shobert, the CEO of Polygon Company (Walkerton, Ind.), looks at the massive metamorphosis that have swept the composites industry and muses on the nature of the industry's mission.

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Out of Autoclave

SPE Automotive Div. names winners of Innovation Awards Competition

The SPE Automotive Div. hosted its 44th-annual Automotive Innovation Awards Gala on Nov. 12 and announced 2014's winners in several categories.

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Nanomaterials

Graphene-toughened composites

Are we getting closer to commercialized, and functional, nanotechnology?

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