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Marine

The first fully-infused boat hull in India a success

DIAB's Composites Consulting Group (CCG) assists Aquarius Fibreglas in designing the infusion of a 15.6m fast interceptor craft.

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Fabrics/Preforms

At JEC Europe 2015: Hexcel

This Stamford, CT, US-based manufacturer and supplier of advance composite materials displayed components molded with its products for applications in the automotive, wind energy and aerospace markets, and launched a new RTM resin, HexFlow RTM230 ST.

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Aerospace

Cobham Composites: San Diego, CA, US

An aerocomposites force since the dawn of the 1980s, this fabricator’s Big Idea is to move from quality control to in-situ process control on the strength of metrics powered by Big Data.

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Yachtbuilding Composites: Rigged for Success

Carbon composite cabling in several forms races ahead of dry fibers and stainless steel in sailboat rigging.

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Construction

Modular composite tank kits

This fluid-storage tank component supplier employs Europe’s largest reusable vacuum bag

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RTM

Incremental thinking just won’t cut it!

Composites industry consultant and regular CW columnist Dale Brosius says if this industry is to have a future that goes anywhere profitable, then we've got to get off the road we're on and map out a whole new way to think about the tasks at hand.

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Composite manhole covers

UK utility trials ultralight access covers to reduce worker injuries and resulting compensation claims

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Molds/Tools

Quasi-isotropic, symmetrical fabric for tooling

Well-known in structural applications, this symmetric, balanced and quasi-isotropic fabric offers savings and opens opportunities in composites tooling.

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Infrastructure

ACMA publishes manual for FRP grating

ACMA issues standard for fiberglass grating with an eye for expanding the industrial composites market

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Aerospace

Donauwörth as composites pioneer

Airbus Helicopter Germany produces composite primary structure for 30+ years, first all-composite doors for A350 XWB and latest “kinked” composite blades for new “quiet” rotorcraft.

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Wabash
Kent Pultrusion
ELFOAM rigid foam products
Custom Hydraulic Press Manufacturing
Toray Advanced Composites hi-temperature materials
Greenerd Compression Molding
Alpha’s Premier ESR®
HEATCON Composite Systems
Airtech International Inc.