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Automotive

Siempelkamp to supply innovative press to Open Hybrid Lab Factory

The 2,500-tonne press, to be installed at Wolfsburg, Germany, will be designed to form multiple materials, including composite/metal hybrids.

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Carbon Fibers

FACC: Aerospace infusion pioneer

Although it’s “new” to aerospace, liquid resin infusion has been the focus of R&D at FACC (Ried im Innkreis) since 2001. “The issue,” said FACC’s aerostructures product development director Hermann Filsegger, “is in getting 100 percent wetout with no voids in a large part with this much complexity.” That’s not, by any means, an easy task.

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NDI

FACC AG: Aerocomposites Powerhouse

This pragmatic Austria-based innovator is pursuing lofty goals in an aerocomposites future full of opportunity.

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Sustainability

SPE ACCE 2014 report

Automotive composites still on the horizon — are they getting closer?

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Infusion

PMI foam core outperforms honeycomb in infused nose landing gear doors

The results of Airbus (Toulouse, France) subsidiary Composite Technology Centre GmbH (CTC, Stade, Germany) studies in 2013 to find more productive but less costly methods of fabricating carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sandwich constructions.

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Aerospace

Airframers vie for shares in growing short-haul market

OEMs of aircraft with 150 or fewer seats exploit composites’ appeal to fuel efficiency-conscious regional air carriers.

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Out of Autoclave

PMI foam core outperforms honeycomb in infused nose landing gear doors

The results of Airbus (Toulouse, France) subsidiary Composite Technology Centre GmbH's (CTC, Stade, Germany) studies in 2013 to find more productive but less costly methods of fabricating carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) sandwich constructions.

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Wind/Energy

The democratization of carbon fiber

Composites industry consultant and regular HPC columnist Dale Brosius says the battle for carbon fiber’s industrial market will be won by suppliers with the lowest costs and greatest capacities.

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Fabrics/Preforms

Nothing gets attention like a demonstration

CAMX 2014 showed that one of the best ways to prove a technology is to run it. Live and in person.

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Aerospace

Scaled Composites' Kevin Mickey impresses at CAMX

The president of Scaled Composites shed some light on this aerospace specialist's past, present and future, including a sneak peak at the 385-ft wingspan Stratolaunch.

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