Wind/Energy

Pressure Vessels

Steelhead Composites earns AS9100 certification

Steelhead Composites designs, manufactures and tests specialty, lightweight hydraulic components and composite pressure vessels to be used for weight-sensitive energy and fuel storage applications.

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Wind/Energy

Spirit AeroSystems unveils new composites curing technology

Spirit’s research group in Scotland has developed an “intelligent heated tool” technology that obviates the need for the autoclave and reduces cure time by 40%.

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Pressure Vessels

First DLR rotor blade headed for load testing

DLR energy researchers have manufactured the first rotor blade (Smartblade) that adapts to wind conditions using bending torsion coupling.

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Carbon Fibers

Carbon Fiber 2017 final highlights

Applications and enabling technologies for carbon fiber promise new market penetration – challenges notwithstanding.

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Automotive

Zoltek fiber in new electric car

Zoltek Corporation (St. Louis, MO, US), a producer of low-cost industrial grade carbon fiber, has its PX35 carbon fiber featured on the new Uniti electric car currently making waves in Sweden.

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ATL/AFP

Mikrosam launches hybrid AFP & FW solution for composites production

The hybrid work cell integrates the advantages of filament winding (FW) and automated fiber placement (AFP) technologies.

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IACMI accepting applications for 2018 internship program

The internship program, now in its third year and with nearly 40 previous participants, launched in 2016 as part of the IACMI mission to cultivate the next generation of technology leaders and foster interest in low-cost, energy-efficient manufacturing technologies.

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Carbon Fibers

Airborne gains oil and gas partner

On December 4, 2017, Airborne Oil & Gas (AOG, IJmuiden, Netherlands), the leading manufacturer of thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) for oil and gas applications, announced the latest addition to its shareholder base: Subsea 7.

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Pressure Vessels

Roth develops high-volume LPG tank line

The gantry-based filament winding system is designed to produce as many as 600,000 plastic-lined, glass fiber-overwrapped liquefied petroleum (LPG) gas pressure vessels per year.

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Out of Autoclave

Tooling: 3D printing’s “killer app”

If 3D printing can be scaled to make tools for composite auto body panels ... it will be transformative

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