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Hexcel opens new carbon fiber plant in France
The company’s new 37-acre plant is devoted to the manufacture of carbon fiber and PAN precursor.
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Composite container protects satellites — on the ground
Cored composites add the strength, smoothness and portability needed for a container built to ship satellites over air, land and water.
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Continuous Fiber Manufacturing (CFM) with moi composites
Continuous fiber 3D printing using epoxy, vinylester and acrylic with continuous glass, carbon, basalt and other fibers, including deposition along nonlinear curves, is only the beginning.
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NASA tests foldable heat shield
NASA’s Adaptable Deployable Entry Placement Technology (ADEPT) is a foldable carbon fabric device that opens to make an umbrella-like heat shield.
Read MoreCAMX 2018 preview: Inman Mills
Inman Mills (Inman, SC, US) is introducing its Texim thermoplastic yarns and fabrics, which feature a sheath of polymer fibers covering a reinforcing fiber core.
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CAMX 2018 preview: Composite Development Centre of Québec
The Composite Development Centre of Québec (CDCQ, Québec, ON, Canada) is featuring its services, designed to help businesses and organizations that are part of the composites value chain with applied research services, technical assistance and information activities, improving the quality and performance their products.
Read MoreCAMX 2018 preview: METYX
METYX Group (Istanbul, Turkey), a manufacturer of high-performance technical textiles including multiaxial reinforcements, carbon fiber reinforcements, RTM reinforcements, woven reinforcements and vacuum bagging products, is emphasizing its new manufacturing capacity in Ranlo, NC, US.
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CAMX 2018 preview: Hexcel
Hexcel (Stamford, CT, US) is featuring one of it newest technologies, HexAM additive manufacturing technology, which combines high-performance PEKK thermoplastics with carbon fiber to produce flight-ready 3D printed HexPEKK parts.
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CAMX 2018 preview: Bally Ribbon Mills
Bally Ribbon Mills (Bally, PA, US) is featuring its line of specialty fabrics and preforms, including 3-D woven joints, thermal protection systems (TPS) and other 3-D structures.
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CAMX 2018 preview: A&P Technology
A&P Technology (Cincinnati, OH, US) is exhibiting engineered braided fabrics designed to enable cost savings.
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