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Wind/Energy

JEC Composites 2007 Product Showcase

This year’s Parisian exhibition provides key evidence of the composites industry’s unprecedented breadth and technical sophistication.

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Sustainability

Deepwater Oil Exploration Fuels Composite Production

As the price of oil on the world market continues to climb, and as untapped land and shallow offshore oil reserves become a rarity, oil exploration companies are striking out into deepwater, developing reserves beneath the ocean floor a mile or more below the water’s surface. As a result, demand for strong yet

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Promising, incremental change

There’s been no getting around, lately, the pre-rollout hoopla and excitement surrounding the scheduled debut of the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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Wind/Energy

From the Publisher - 6/1/2007

Salt Lake City, Utah has established itself as an area of expertise in composites manufacturing and the SME Composites Manufacturing Conference held there in April made it pay off. Not only did the meeting have outstanding technical and business participation from local companies but it also drew presenters from major

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Autoclave

Composites: Past, Present Future: Phenolics Revisited

Phenolics were the first commercialized thermosetting resins made from synthetic components. The earliest phenolic resin — polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, formed from phenol (carbolic acid) and formaldehyde — is credited to Dr. Leo Baekeland, a Belgian immigrant to the U.S., although German chemist Adolf von

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Adhesives

Bonding Technology: Thermosetting Structural Adhesives

A wealth of epoxies, polyurethanes and acrylics speed assembly and cut manufacturing cost in an ever-wider range of composites applications.

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EDO, GKN picked for composites work on Sikorsky craft

EDO and GKN have been chosen to do composites-related design and production work for the U.S. Marine Corps CH-53K helicopter program.

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Sustainability

People news

Charles Tur joins MVP as RTM/infusion specialist; David Jones named director of bioproducts at Ashland; James Dowey becomes vice president, managing director of Smithers Rapra Technology; Thomas Craney joins Crane Composites Group.

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What the 787 says about the future

My oldest son is 12. College for him is seven years away, but he’s already thinking about it.

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SAMPE Products and Services Listing

The following categorical list of exhibitors is based on information gathered and provided to HPC by the SAMPE organization on April 26, 2007.Abrasive Finishing Equipment & Supplies Clayton Associates Inc. 708 Coast-Line International 1310 Composites One 1402 DCM Clean-Air Products Inc. 1332 De-Comp

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Toray Advanced Composites hi-temperature materials
Kent Pultrusion
Wabash
Custom Hydraulic Press Manufacturing
Greenerd Compression Molding
ELFOAM rigid foam products
Industrial CNC Routers
HEATCON Composite Systems
CompositesWorld