Wind/Energy

Pressure Vessels

GE launches onshore wind turbine with two-piece carbon fiber blades

The Cypress wind turbine platform features a revolutionary two-piece carbon blade design, enabling blades to be manufactured at even longer lengths.

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Glass Fibers

Making prepreg tape more accessible

Cygnet Texkimp’s new slitter-spooler offers economical production of high-quality tapes and vertical integration for manufacturers to access a much wider market.

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Wind/Energy

MHI Vestas offshore wind turbine achieves 10 MW power rating

The offshore wind industry’s long-anticipated, double-digit barrier has been broken by MHI Vestas’ V164 turbine platform.

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Trends

Airbus Helicopters puts focus on offshore wind market

The company is looking at wind farms as a business segment undergoing global growth and expects demand for up to a thousand helicopters over the coming two decades.

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Wind/Energy

Scott Bader expands in Japan

The new business will supply the growing composites market in Japan with composite and adhesive products coupled with technical support. 

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Wind/Energy

LM Wind Power installs 66.6 m blades on 4MW offshore wind turbine in China

The installation is the first in a two-year agreement with Shanghai Electric Wind Power for LM 66.6 blade sets.

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Glass Fibers

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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CAMX

CAMX 2018 preview: Olin

Epoxy manufacturer Olin Corp. (Clayton, MO, US) is unveiling several new technologies for composite applications, which will be shown in finished products on display in Olin’s booth

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Pressure Vessels

CAMX 2018 preview: MultiMechanics

Composite modeling and simulation software specialist MultiMechanics (Omaha, NE, US) is demonstrating its newly released composite tube and pressure vessel optimization tool.

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Wind/Energy

CAMX 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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