Processes

Construction

Pultruded window: Glass/polyurethane prototype wins award

Deceuninck Group NV (Hooglede-Gits, Belgium), is at the forefront of composite window frame design and innovation, as evidenced by its recent award for a large, prototype window designed to open like a door.

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Aerospace

Searching for composites-friendly machine tools

This is IMTS week, where "composites" is a foreign word to much of the machine tool industry. It's not too hard, however, to find suppliers who know their way around composite structures.

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Automation

Leichtbau ist hybridbau

Integrating multiple materials and functions for lightweight construction in the German automotive industry.

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Infusion

Resin infusion produces autoclave-capable tools for Scorpion jet

Leading Edge Aerospace designs and builds cost-effective prototype tools for maverick military aircraft concept.

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Are LFRT composites key to auto adoption?

Long carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastics don't pack the punch of continuous carbon fiber, but they might help spread use of composites in automotive.

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Weaving

Disaster-resistant housing: Framing the future

This need in developing nations could be met by a composite structural framing system capable of producing both fortified dwellings and jobs.

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Adhesives

Mass reduction for mass appeal: FRPs and CMCs in RVs

Composites save weight, speed assembly, improve aesthetics and diminish warranty service and promote sales.

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Sustainability

Sitting pretty: Car seat concept scores a first

Automotive supplier’s reinforced thermoplastic back frame curtails weight and simplifies molding/styling tasks.

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Out of Autoclave

Event pavilion: SMC panels ensure architectural authenticity

To expand its services, the High Bullen golf and spa hotel in Devonshire, U.K., converts a little-used tennis facility into a flexible meetings facility, and kept the remodeled structure within the local "heritage" code with simulated mortared stone-like composite panels from Acell Industries Ltd. (Dublin, Ireland).

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ELFOAM rigid foam products
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Greenerd Compression Molding
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Kent Pultrusion
Custom Hydraulic Press Manufacturing
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