Plastics Today

JANUARY 16, 2024

This year’s auto parts category features entries from Toyota, the University of Delaware, and Voith Composites.

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Composites Automotive 105

Plastics Today

OCTOBER 11, 2023

KraussMaffei and partners present the revolutionary children's bicycle made from a polyamide composite incorporating recycled content at Fakuma.

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Composites 101

Robotics Automation News

MARCH 5, 2023

Michael Bartlett, an assistant professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been granted a $590,600 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to research and understand new strategies for manufacturing liquid metal-based soft composites.

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Composites Electronics Manufacturing Function 104

Plastics News

AUGUST 11, 2022

The federal CHIPS and Science Act specifically calls for investments in composites and advanced materials.

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Composites 117

Manufacturer's Monthly

MARCH 13, 2023

Billy Friend sat down with founder and director Joe Bryant to learn about the company’s ambitions to propel Australia into the upper echelon of advanced composites manufacturing. Fresh from university, Joe Bryant began his career as an aerospace engineer with Airbus, working on the company’s first composite helicopter, the ARH Tiger.

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Composites Aerospace Supply Chain Manufacturing 85

Plastics Today

MARCH 6, 2023

The winners of the JEC Composites Innovation Awards take materials to new heights in aviation, automotive, and other applications.

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Composites Automotive 104

Manufacturer's Monthly

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

New industry-linked Swinburne research uses smart composite structures to help engineers detect structural defects in planes and rockets before they cause disaster. The industry-linked project with Sparc Technologies and Composite Materials Engineering is creating graphene-enabled smart composites for aviation, aerospace and renewable energy.

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Composites Aerospace Advanced manufacturing Prototype  81

Plastics Today

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Japan’s Hitachi Energy is also joining Collab Composite with the aim of connecting international industry with innovative startups in the field of fiber composites.

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Composites 52

Manufacturer's Monthly

JULY 5, 2023

Mining research organisation Mining3 and the University of Southern Queensland (UniSQ) have partnered to develop a novel carbon fibre composite rock bolt through support from the Australian Coal Industry’s Research Program (ACARP). Mining3’s carbon fibre composite rock bolts are the result of patented design innovation.

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Composites Manufacturing Automation Robotics 52

Plataine

APRIL 24, 2023

These advanced tools and algorithms provide composite parts manufacturers with a dynamic approach to production planning, considering all relevant elements including human capacity, tool availability and autoclave optimization, to automatically generate optimized manufacturing schedules.

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Composites Manufacturing Advanced manufacturing 105

NIST Manufacturing

DECEMBER 1, 2023

CTL’s Smart Connected Manufacturing Systems Group and the Longterm Archiving and Retrieval (LOTAR) Consortium have supported multi-year efforts to harmonize composite material standards. enables engineering practices for the definition of

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Composites Manufacturing 52

Canadian Manufacturing

APRIL 10, 2024

LAVAL — M1 Composites Technology Inc, a Quebec-based aerostructure engineering, manufacturing, and sustainment/repair company has been selected by Satair, an Airbus Services company, as the preferred North American repair station for Airbus A220 aircraft flight controls and structural parts.

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Composites Assembly Line Aerospace Manufacturing 40

Plastics News

AUGUST 11, 2022

The federal CHIPS and Science Act specifically calls for investments in composites and advanced materials.

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Composites 98

Plastics Today

JULY 15, 2022

Interdisciplinary research team seeks to develop thermoformable thermoplastic composites using renewable bast fibers as reinforcement.

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Composites 130

AU Manufacturing

APRIL 2, 2023

Quickstep , Australia’s largest independent aerospace composite company, has secured a $2.34 million contract with Carbonix for the production and supply of composite aerostructures for Carbonix’s latest long-range drone. We anticipate the demand for this aircraft will substantially exceed the initial production volume,” Burgess said.

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Composites Aerospace Manufacturing 76

Dinesh Mishra

AUGUST 7, 2023

Historically, composites were not the first choice because glass fiber composites, while lighter, may not have the necessary stiffness, and carbon fiber, while stiff enough, is often too expensive for most common applications. Generally, thin-wall composite tubes are those with thicknesses between 0.5 mm (about 0.02

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Composites Manufacturing 52

MEM

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

CGTech, the developer of VERICUT verification, simulation and optimisation software, is announcing an exciting reseller agreement with Bristol-based iCOMAT, pioneer of the first-ever defect-free tape-steering process for composite component production. Together, we can push new frontiers in automated composite part manufacturing.”

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Composites Manufacturing Aerospace Automotive 52

MEM

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Advanced Engineering Show announcement: New Aerospace Standard Composites Factory Operational in Morocco Rockwood Composites, the ‘out-of-autoclave’ composite components manufacturer, today (1 November 2023) announced that its 21,000ft 2 factory in Morocco is now operational.

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Composites Aerospace Automotive Manufacturing 52

Manufacturing Management

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The University of Sheffield AMRC Training Centre will become the first training provider in South Yorkshire to deliver a new composites apprenticeship in a move to sustain the longevity of the capability within manufacturing by creating its workforce of the future.

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Composites Manufacturing 52

Plastics Today

AUGUST 4, 2022

A team effort by BASF, Flex-N-Gate, L&L Products, and Toyota reduced part count in the Toyota Tundra seatback from 60 stamped and welded parts to just four composite components.

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Composites 104

MEM

JULY 18, 2023

The International Composites Summit (ICS), renowned as the premier platform for cost-effective and sustainable composites business in the UK, is pleased to announce its upcoming informal networking dinner.

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Composites Manufacturing 52

Plastics Today

JULY 21, 2022

The company has developed a sustainable, water-based, low-energy process for coloring carbon-fiber composite materials, eliminating the need for painting.

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Composites 104

AU Manufacturing

MARCH 13, 2023

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) has added a new additive manufacturing machine by Continuous Composites to its campus in an effort to print large and lightweight structural composites like those used in aerospace structures.

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Composites Additive manufacturing Manufacturing Aerospace 52

Plastics Today

MARCH 8, 2024

Bcomp’s ampliTex natural-fiber composites are being deployed in a mass-market car for the first time.

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Composites Automotive 52

Plastics Today

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The maritime category of the awards program features entries from Gurit, Ayro, and Paul Dijkstra Composites.

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Composites 59

Manufacturing Tomorrow

MARCH 27, 2024

Joints, TPS technology, and other 3-D woven composites

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Composites 52

Plastics Today

JULY 18, 2023

Polypropylene (PP) composite reinforced with PP fibers is 52% lighter than conventional composites, potentially boosting flight time in next-gen mobility applications by 27%.

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Composites 52

Plastics Today

AUGUST 1, 2023

The addition of 74,000 square feet needed to meet demand for quality advanced composites for global aerospace, mobility, and industrial markets.

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Composites Aerospace 52

Metrology

JULY 16, 2023

COMPASS will push the boundaries of existing science and technology, enabling automation of layup of large-scale composite components to move beyond existing capabilities. The post COMPASS Facility Investment To Solve Future Composite Manufacturing Challenges appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine.

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Composites Manufacturing Automation 52

Metrology

AUGUST 6, 2023

The post Roller Probe Inspects Large-Scale Composite Materials appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine. Krautkrämer RotoArray comPAct is the first ultrasonic inspection solution with new phased array (PA) electronics technology based on a proprietary patent.

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Composites Electronics 52

Plataine

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The post How the labor shortage is killing aerospace composites manufacturing appeared first on Plataine. Given the aerospace industry relies on long and complex supply chains, it only takes a short delay to create significant ripple effects, slowing down production.

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Composites Aerospace Supply Chain Manufacturing 98

AU Manufacturing

JULY 2, 2023

The University of Southern Queensland has ventured into a partnership with Mining3 , a leading mining research organisation in Australia, to develop a next-generation carbon fibre composite rock bolt. The post UniSQ, Mining3 to develop novel composite rock bolt for mining, tunnelling engineering appeared first on Australian Manufacturing.

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Composites Automation Robotics Robotics 52

Metrology

JUNE 19, 2023

Software company Molydyn is to use chemical simulation to test new composite materials, in collaboration with the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) and Bitrez, in order to The post Chemical Simulation Paves Way For Composite Materials Sustainable Testing appeared first on Metrology and Quality News - Online Magazine. (..)

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Composites Advanced manufacturing Manufacturing 52

Metrology

MARCH 13, 2023

Identifying defects in fiber composite materials during the production process will be possible in the future thanks to a novel radar method that automatically and non-destructively monitors the manufacturing process The post Novel Radar Technique Robotically Monitors Composite Blade Manufacturing Process appeared first on Metrology and Quality News (..)

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Composites Robotics Robotics Manufacturing 59

Plastics News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Rock West Composites Inc. has acquired the assets of Performance Plastics Inc. for an undisclosed price.

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Composites 70

The Fabricator

AUGUST 24, 2023

multigas analyzer from Witt can quickly check the composition of 15 different two-gas mixtures of argon, helium, CO2, methane, oxygen, nitrogen, and hydrogen. The MFA 10.0

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Composites 52

Plastics Today

AUGUST 17, 2023

Additional investment in simulation software boosts Carbon ThreeSixty's composite manufacturing capabilities for automotive, aerospace, energy, and defense applications.

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Composites Aerospace Automotive Robotics 52