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Marine

Foiling motoryacht impresses in carbon fiber/epoxy

A project is underway to build a faster, lighter, hybrid-electric motorboat with foils and hull fabricated from carbon fiber and epoxy.

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Carbon Fibers

Energy storage in multifunctional carbon fiber composites

A need for lightweight energy storage technology is fueling the development of carbon fiber composite materials for car batteries and other electronics.

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Filament Winding

NETZSCH and USQ partner to advance automated composite manufacturing

The research partnership will focus on advancing the automated production of composite materials using dielectric sensor technology. 

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Aerospace

Plant tour: Meggitt San Diego, CA, US

This aerospace and defense fabricator upgrades to a larger facility and gets, in the process, a chance to rethink and optimize material, people and process flow. 

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Carbon Fibers

METYX USA receives ISO 9001: 2015 certification

The company’s new technical textiles production, sales and distribution facility in Gastonia, NC, US is now ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management System certified. 

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Weaving

AMRC adds 3D permeability measurement bench

The system is capable of measuring the permeability of a dry reinforcement, which is important for understanding how liquid resin will behave when injected in infusion and RTM processes. 

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Irkut Corp. completes construction of third MC-21 test aircraft

The Russian company’s third infused carbon fiber composite wing aircraft will soon join flight certification testing program.

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Glass Fibers

Strongwell names PIPESPAIN as distributor for Spain and Portugal

PIPESPAIN will distribute Strongwell’s fiber reinforced polymer composite products to the Spain and Portugal markets.

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Aerospace

CW's top 10 posts of 2018

The top 10 most viewed articles on the CompositesWorld website in 2018.

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Looking ahead at composites trends in 2019

Columnist Dale Brosius predicts 2019 will reveal growth opportunities in infrastructure, wind energy and personal air mobility for composites. 

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HEATCON Composite Systems
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