Thermoplastics
Hexcel partners with Lavoisier Composites, Arkema
Hexcel has announced a partnership with Lavoisier Composites to upcycle composite by-products from the aerospace industry, and a joint R&D lab opening in partnership with Arkema.
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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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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.
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JEC World 2019 preview: Teijin
Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan, 6/G28) is introducing a new prepreg composed of unidirectional carbon fiber tape with a bismaleimide (BMI) matrix resin.
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JEC World 2019 preview: Web Industries
Web Industries Inc.’s Aerospace division (Marlborough, Mass., U.S., 5/L6) is featuring its capabilities in the formatting of flexible thermoplastic composite materials for next-generation aerospace applications.
Read MoreJEC World 2019 preview: Solvay
Solvay Composite Materials (Alpharetta, Ga., U.S., 5/L42) is featuring technologies and product forms designed to reduce cycle times, increase structural integration and enable use of automated fabrication processes.
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JEC World 2019 preview: SABIC
SABIC (Pittsfield, Mass., U.S., 6/P12) is highlighting the progress of its Digital Composites Manufacturing line, an automated digital systems for rapid, large-scale laminate manufacturing, via a 360-degree virtual reality experience.
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