Videos

Carbon Fibers

Carbon fiber/epoxy in production boats

Scout Boats and now Hinckley Yachts showcase how demand for lighter, faster performance pushes materials and process change.

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Automated Preforming, Part 6: Coriolis Composites

Pioneer in automated fiber placement (AFP) advances preforms for overmolded thermoplastic composites enabling production of one automotive part every 20 seconds.

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Composites 4.0

Automation, automotive, recycling and more from JEC World 2018

Mass production of automotive composites, recycling and composites in shipbuilding are just some of the themes from this year’s JEC.

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JEC World 2018, Day Two Video

CW shares highlights from the world’s largest composites industry trade show.

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Aerospace

Jeff Sloan's top five from JEC World 2018

There is still a third and final day to go at JEC World 2018 in Paris, but there is enough fodder from the first two days of the show to cobble together some thoughts about what we have heard and seen at the show.

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JEC World 2018, Day One Video

CW shares highlights from the world’s largest composites industry trade show.

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Carbon Fibers

Stratolaunch project makes more progress

All-composites mega-plane achieves ground speed of 40 knots in taxi tests.

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Nanomaterials

NanoStitch update: 60-inch wide sheet, industrial capacity, dramatic test results

N12 Technologies adds second facility in Boston and capacity at UDRI in Ohio while amassing knowledge to prevent microcracking and delamination in applications from sporting goods to aerospace.

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Adhesives

JEC World 2018 preview: Tri-Mack Plastics

Tri-Mack Plastics Mfg Corp. is sharing the results of a recently completed test that demonstrates the bond strength of Tri-Mack’s overmolded thermoplastic composite hybrid parts.

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Mass Transit

Composites give shape to new passenger bus

The VDL Bus & Coach Citea bus features composite structures fabricated using a vacuum expansion process (VEX) with specially formulated foaming resin compounds supplied by BÜFA Composite Systems.

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Ketones

Airborne, Siemens and SABIC partner to mass produce thermoplastic composites

Flexible, automated production lines, featuring radically low conversion costs, aimed at millions of parts/yr — CW’s interview with all three companies.

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Thermoplastics

Carbon Fibre Preforms for low-cost and zero waste

Chopped fiber preforms in seconds, 1200°C burn resistance for hours, low-cost CFRP to replace metals

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