Processes

Automotive

3D TPC structural preforming process lightens car doors

Automated cell manufactures and pre-impregnates continuous-fiber 3D preforms for injection/compression overmolding of parts with complex shapes, and tailored structural properties.

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Pultrusion

Preforming goes industrial: Part 1

ATL and AFP-based preforming options now abound for processing dry and/or impregnated reinforcements as quickly as 1 minute or less with potential yearly part yields in the millions.

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Bio-composite surfboard fins

New materials trim weight, add sustainability.

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Composites recycling: Gaining traction

Recycling of carbon fiber, glass fiber and — at last — resins, is growing as new players enter the space.

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Consumer

Process automation: A model response to Trumponomics and Brexit?

Offshoring can’t go on forever and a significant trend toward reshoring is probably inevitable.

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Composites 4.0

CompositesWorld's story planning journey

Automotive materials and process innovation in the driver’s seat.

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Aerospace

People on the move: April 2017

Here is this month’s people on the move news in the composites industry.

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Accelerating materials insertion: Where do virtual allowables fit?

In the quest to reduce the time and cost for aerocomposite design allowables development, will conventional physical testing and virtual testing go head-to-head or work side-by-side?

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Carbon Fibers

Curved pultrusion? No longer an oxymoron

Radius-Pultrusion process offers linear or curved profiles.

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ELFOAM rigid foam products
Kent Pultrusion
Toray Advanced Composites hi-temperature materials
Wabash
U.S. Polychemical Acrastrip
Release agents and process chemical specialties
Large Scale Additive Manufacturing
IRIS Ai-enabled Camera
Airtech International Inc.