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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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Stratolaunch project makes more progress
All-composites mega-plane achieves ground speed of 40 knots in taxi tests.
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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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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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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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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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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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Fiber Patch Placement at scale
SAMBA automated cells now offered in Step, Pro and Scale models, for 3D preforming dry fiber and prepreg at rates up to 15-100 kg/hr.
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Falcon Heavy is just the beginning
The successful launch of the Falcon Heavy rocket by SpaceX marks a new milestone in the private space race — the ability to take larger payloads further.
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Episode 16: Donna Dawson, CompositesWorld
Donna Dawson, senior writer emeritus for CompositesWorld, shares her memories from the early days of composites.
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Thermoplastic composite demonstrators — EU roadmap for future airframes
There is a TPC development roadmap in Europe, supported by Airbus and a variety of aerospace consortia, and involving almost every major aerostructures supplier in Europe.
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