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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.
Read MoreFACC: 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.
Read MoreFACC AG: Aerocomposites Powerhouse
This pragmatic Austria-based innovator is pursuing lofty goals in an aerocomposites future full of opportunity.
Read MoreSPE ACCE 2014 report
Automotive composites still on the horizon — are they getting closer?
Read MorePMI 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.
Read MoreAirframers 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.
Read MorePMI 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreNothing 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.
Read MoreScaled 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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