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Marine

UK's EPSRC forms alliance with ICMAC event

the UK’s EPSRC recently announced that The Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub (The Hub) has formed a strategic partnership with ICMAC 2018: The International Conference on Manufacturing of Advanced Composites, to be held in Nottingham over two days on July 11-12, 2018.

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Mikrosam expands into North America

Macedonia-based Mikrosam will partner with New Jersey-based Composites Automation LLC to sell its composites automation system into North America.

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Aerospace

Plant tour: Diamond Aircraft Austria, Wiener Neustadt, Austria

Composites use among general aviation manufacturers is far from unusual, but none apply them quite like this airframer does.

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Thermoplastics

Simplifying the solar panel with composites

Replacing glass and aluminum with a polymer/cored polymer composite laminate ups panel durability at reduced weight.

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Sustainability

Composites UK announces 2017 industry award winners

Industry trade association Composites UK revealed the winners of its industry awards that takes place alongside the Advanced Engineering Show.

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Fabrics/Preforms

Automated preforming: Intelligent automation in pick-and-place systems

Layups go industrial with hand-like grippers that can fold fabric or prepreg into corners and robot-mounted cameras that inspect from fabric to cut plies to fiber gaps in final preforms.

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Defense

Armor Update: Reinforced elastomeric composite blast barrier

A new, flexible, lightweight, portable debris shield holds promise for protecting building occupants in military zones.

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IACMI officially opens new innovation facility in Detroit

Two years in the works, the IACMI Vehicles Scale-Up Facility offers the automotive industry a composite materials and manufacturing development innovation center.

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Adhesives

bigHead, Cranfield University discuss Knowledge Transfer Partnership

bigHead Bonding Fasteners and Cranfield University have formed a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) focused on new joining technologies for composite materials.

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Out of Autoclave

IBEX 2017 show report

Increased attendance and exhibitors despite Irma, continued delivery of latest in composite technologies for marine industry.

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