Reinforcements
Boeing 777X debut may face delays
Recent news reports have said that this week’s debut of the Boeing 777X jetliner has been postponed.
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Plant Tour: Prodrive
At Prodrive, composite parts for race cars, luxury cars and even folding bicycles receive hands-on attention through every step of manufacture.
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Williams Advanced Engineering introduces processes for cost-effective carbon fiber composites
The company’s two latest technologies, 223 and Racetrak, are said to be a step-change in the affordability of composite materials.
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Thermoplastic composite pipe on the rise in the deep sea
Demonstrators, pilot programs and qualification efforts are paying off as thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) makers take orders for deep-sea oil and gas applications.
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Recycled thermoplastic composites for production
Multi-year R&D at ThermoPlastic composites Applications Center (TPAC), TenCate and Clean Sky 2 demonstrate economic advantage of serial production using recycled materials.
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JEC World 2019 preview: Fraunhofer IPT
Fraunhofer Institutes for Production Technology (IPT, Aachen, Germany, 5/D17) is emphasizing work it did with Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT, Aachen) on the EU research project ComMUnion, in collaboration with 14 partners from industry, to develop industrial processes and solutions for hybrid lightweight design by combining metal and polymer-matrix composites for automotive and aerospace applications.
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NETZSCH and Swinburne partner on Industry 4.0 composite Testlab
NETZSCH’s unique in-mold cure monitoring technology will be implemented in Swinburne’s Industry 4.0 carbon-fiber composite product Testlab.
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Design engineering of tailored preforms
Tailored preforming has opened new doors in composites fabrication, but designing for it requires tools that understand and work with this complex process.
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JEC World 2019 preview: Victrex and Coriolis
Victrex (Thornton Cleveleys, U.K., 5/S29) and Coriolis Composites (Queven, France, 6/A32) are announcing cooperative work they did with thermoplastic unidirectional tape (TP UDT) prepreg lay-up and consolidation to improve the manufacturing efficiency of composite parts.
Read MoreResearchers combine recycled carbon fiber with heat-treated wood for housing applications
Washington State University and the Composites Recycling Technology Center are creating building materials from heat-treated wood and recycled carbon fiber.
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