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Carbon Fibers

Solvay, Strata joint venture to supply Boeing with composite materials

Facility to be commissioned in 2020 and to anchor a growing advanced manufacturing sector.

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Glass Fibers

MHI Vestas repurposes power plant for wind blades

MHI Vestas Offshore Wind A/S (Aarhus, Denmark) will repurpose an oil-fired power plant decommissioned in 2015 into a state-of-the-art painting and logistics facility for its record-breaking 80m turbine blades.

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Focus on Design

Simplifying the solar panel with composites

Replacing glass and aluminum with a polymer/cored polymer composite laminate ups panel durability at reduced weight.

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Adhesives

Audi R8 seat wall: A prelude to production

Audi takes it upon itself to design and develop carbon fiber composite structures that, the company hopes, will enter high-rate production.

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Carbon Fibers

Solvay acquires European Carbon Fiber GmbH

The strategic acquisition of European Carbon Fiber enables Solvay to develop a portfolio of large-tow carbon fibers to complement its existing range of pitch and PAN aerospace grade carbon fibers.

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Mass Transit

Toyota fuel cell bus features carbon fiber composite roof

Toho Tenax carbon fiber and aluminum are combined in fabrication of roof for Toyota hydrogen-powered bus. 

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Consumer

Chomarat invests in a carbon multiaxial technology

This new multiaxial machine is reportedly 10 times more productive than the previous generation of machines. 

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SGL offers high-performance organosheet and thermoplastics for overmolding

“Thermoplastic toolbox” includes LFT, UD tapes, woven semi-finished sheets and carbon/glass hybrids in PA and polyolefins for automotive and other high-volume applications.

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Pultrusion

CW Talks: How carbon fiber beat out steel in elevator cabling

CW Talks: The Composites Podcast learns from KONE’s Steve Gonzalez how pultruded carbon fiber UltraRope was developed to help move elevators up and down in the world’s tallest buildings.

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Application

CFRP bests steel in precision ball joints

Near-zero backlash in bearings and automation components.  

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