Reinforcements

Carbon Fibers

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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Epoxies

Tecnofire adds fire resistance to transportation and infrastructure applications

Intumescent nonwoven veils improve the fire performance of composites in bridge, bus, building, marine and aircraft structures.

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Space

Stratolaunch cuts launch vehicle and rocket engine programs

Stratolaunch has reportedly backed off of development of a family of launch vehicles that were intended to use the company’s all composite carrier aircraft as a launch platform.

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Prepregs

New Products: January 2019

CW’s roundup of new products for the composites industry – the past month has seen innovations from AnalySwift, BriskHeat, Granta Design, JETCAM, Kordsa, Starrett and Thermwood.

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Glass Fibers

Vectorply achieves ISO 9001:2015 certification

Vectorply’s composite reinforcement fabrics are targeted to the aerospace, transportation and industrial markets.

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Trends

LeMond Composites and Yale School of Architecture explore carbon fiber robotic fabrication

LeMond Composites has partnered with the Yale School of Architecture to explore new methods of computing and manufacturing structures using advanced carbon fiber technologies.

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Carbon Fibers

NCC and Surface Generation partner to demonstrate thermoplastic overmolding capabilities

The two companies together have produced a number of carbon fiber reinforced / PA6 automotive demonstrators which are due to be assessed by an automotive OEM.

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Weaving

Making better composite bikes in Arkansas

Bicycle manufacturer HIA Velo (Little Rock, AR, US), maker of carbon fiber bikes, is using a combination of composite materials to make their products more durable.

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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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Resins

Fiber-Line acquired by PolyOne

Fiber-Line has established a portfolio of materials serving the fiber optic cable, oil & gas, industrial and consumer industries.

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Composites One - distributor
Toray Advanced Composites hi-temperature materials
world leader in braiding technology
Master Bond epoxy adhesives for bonding
Custom Quantity Composite Repair Materials
Large Scale Additive Manufacturing
release agents, purging compounds, process chemical specialties
Composites One - distributor
Composites One - distributor