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CompoTech: Designing and Supplying Turnkey Composites Technologies
At JEC World 2023, CompoTech showcased its automated fiber winding and laying technology capabilities, highlighting the company’s latest custom-built, automated fiber winding machine, with fiber placement using a FANUC six-axis robot.
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Cycle Inspect, UNSW investigate carbon fiber bicycle damage
The collaborative research initiative will explore the prevalence and impact of structural damage in carbon fiber bicycles currently in use by the general public, assessing the magnitude of the issue and raising awareness.
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Plana, DUC Hélices Propellers to develop propellers for AAM
High-performance, low-noise, and eco-friendly composite propulsion systems will be designed, produced, tested and certified for the CP-01 hybrid eVTOL aircraft.
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THOR project develops mass-producible CFRTP hydrogen tanks
The three-year project, concluded in 2022 and aided by partners spanning the entire hydrogen storage supply chain, tested and produced 15 thermoplastic tanks, with the goal of achieving broader market introduction.
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Plyable recognized as Boeing Aerospace Xelerated portfolio member
Composite tooling automation platform is a cohort 1 graduate from Boeing-backed accelerator program for digital startups that can move the aerospace industry forward.
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Kanfit completes production of acceptance test part with AFP
The Ingersoll AFP machine is reported to be the first of its kind in Israel, aiding Kanfit’s R&D venture and strategy to adopt new technologies for composite production.
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ACoSaLUS project updates for automated sandwich panel layup
Cevotec and project partners have made significant progress in line with 2023 completion, including improvement of automated handling, patch vision inspection, and the laminate design and patch placement process.
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Airbus selects Airborne to supply automated ply placement system
The pick-and-place system with software-driven automated will be the first in Airbus facilities, enabling highly efficient and flexible dry fiber preform manufacture for A350 structures.
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Plant tour: Airtech International, Springfield, Tenn., U.S.
Fifty years of supplying materials for composites manufacturing includes custom fabrication and now aims to advance 3D-printed tooling, parts and new resins.
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JEC World 2023 highlights: Recycling, biocomposites, smaller equipment and expanding brands
CW senior technical editor Ginger Gardiner addresses some of this year’s hot topics, ranging from novel biocomposites and recycling technology solutions from myriad startups to upgraded, but equally sustainable, equipment from well-established companies.
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Colorado State professor earns NSF award for composites 3D printing
Mechanical engineering professor Mostafa Yourdkhani’s novel in-situ printing and curing techniques for composite materials, including carbon fiber, earned him the Faculty Early Career Development Award.
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Spur offers Hardex structural foam core as alternative to low-weight cores in sandwich composites
Recyclable, closed-cell XPP foam offers good properties, resistance, recycled content/recyclability and thermoformability, including fusion/welding with PP-based composite skins.
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