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New Products: February 2019

CW’s roundup of new products for the composites industry – the past month has seen innovations from BTG Labs, Entec, Epoxies Etc., Heatcon, Interplastic, Kent Pultrusion, L&L Special Furnace, PolyOne, Roth, Rucks Maschinenbau, SABIC and Stratasys.

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Kent Pultrusion installs fully electric pultruder

The company has announced the installation of a ServoPul 3012 fully electric pultrusion line to a North American leading provider of composites.

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Glass Fibers

Composites training center opens in Dorset

Norco, a manufacturer of large composite structures and GRP moldings, has opened a new composites training center to offer hands-on training for new apprentices.

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Aerospace

USQ partners with defense scientists on next-generation aircraft repairs

The collaboration is working to develop an automated method of controlling the curing process in order to produce reliable composite repairs.

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Aerospace

Composites recycling — no more excuses

Columnist Dale Brosius outlines six actionable levels of composites recycling that fabricators should follow.

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Measuring and improving fire resistance in composites

Sidebar to CW’s Feb 2019 feature article, this quick review of fire tests for composites also provides more details about intriguing new material developments.

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Surface Generation molding technology selected for Victrex parts-based programs

Surface Generation’s Production to Functional Specification (PtFS) technology manages multiple part areas during processing and drive reductions in the energy consumption, injection processing pressures and cycle times. 

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Carbon fiber will enable air taxi eVTOLs

Aircraft and autos have indeed faced CFRP production woes, but new tech opens door for both.

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Withstanding fire without the weight

New composites meet stringent fire requirements while lightweighting ships, rail cars and battery boxes for electric cars and planes.

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North Coast signs composites supply agreement with top tier aerospace company

North Coast Composites, Tool & Mold has secured a $99 million 10-year long term agreement to supply a commercial aircraft program with composite parts.

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Toray Advanced Composites hi-temperature materials
Wabash
Custom Hydraulic Press Manufacturing
Greenerd Compression Molding
ELFOAM rigid foam products
Kent Pultrusion
Real Time Resin Degassing Measurement
NewStar Adhesives - Nautical Adhesives
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