Thermoplastics

Carbon Fibers 6 May 2018

Pultruded composites market growing, says EPTA

The European Pultrusion Technology Association (EPTA, Frankfurt, Germany) has published an in-depth report on its highly successful 2018 conference, held in Vienna on March 1-2, 2018. The 12-page document, World Pultrusion Conference 2018: Attractive Long-Term Prospects for Pultruded Composites, is available to download from the EPTA website.

Carbon Fibers 4 May 2018

Premium Aerotec presents thermoplastic CFRP A320 pressure bulkhead

Premium Aerotec shows the potential that CFRP with a thermoplastic matrix holds for the future with the world’s first demonstrator for an A320 pressure bulkhead.

Wind/Energy 25 Apr 2018

Solvay launches high-performance carbon fiber tape for offshore oil and gas applications

Evolite F1050 is a market first high-performance thermoplastic composite with continuous carbon fiber reinforcement for demanding offshore oil and gas applications.

Nanomaterials 17 Apr 2018

Multi-material shipping container for pharmaceuticals

This past week, CW was made aware of a new, high-tech and multi-material unit load device (ULD) shipping container solution from an innovative container company called Smart Containers Group (Zurich, Switzerland).

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Medical 12 Apr 2018

So, you want to overmold

If so, CompositesWorld is hosting, June 13-14, the Composites Overmolding conference, to explore the software, materials and processes being used to combine continuous fiber composites with overmolded thermoplastics.

Adhesives 10 Apr 2018

New light-curing adhesive bonds temperature resistant thermoplastics

Vitralit UV 4802 was developed by Panacol for bonding high-temperature resistant thermoplastics such as PEEK with other non-compatible materials.

Thermoplastics 10 Apr 2018

New 3D printing filaments based on PEKK and PVDF now available

The new Kepstan PEKK and Kynar PVDF filaments are designed for 3D printing of highly technical parts requiring extreme performance.

Thermoplastics 9 Apr 2018

Episode 17: Gino Francato, Sabic; Arno van Mourik, Airborne; John O'Connor, Siemens

Business leaders at Sabic, Airborne and Siemens discuss a collaboration by the three companies to develop the UDMAX thermoplastic laminate manufacturing system.

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Electronics 2 Apr 2018

Airborne, Siemens, SABIC partner for TPC mass production

Having acquired Fibre Reinforced Thermoplastics B.V. (FRT, Lelystad, Netherlands) in 2016, SABIC was looking for a partner to produce large quantities of thermoplastic composite parts (using its UDMAX tapes, of course) at a radically lower cost. “We have been doing this type of work for a variety of industries,” says Arno van Mourik, founder and director of Airborne (The Hague, The Netherlands). His company is the leading manufacturer of thermoplastic composite pipe for oil and gas. “We have developed software and an industrialized process that now produces 40-50 tonnes of continuous product in one go without touch labor.” In 2015, Airborne built the Digital Factory Composites Field Lab with partners Siemens (Plano, TX, US) and KUKA Robotics (Augsburg, Germany) to pursue digitalization of composites processes.

Thermoplastics 1 Apr 2018