Elevated Materials (Gardena, Calif., U.S.) takes a bit of an unconventional approach to recycling carbon fiber. While studying aerospace engineering at the University of Southern California (USC, Los Angeles, Calif., U.S.), company founder and CEO Ryan Olliges saw the amount of unused carbon fiber b

  Source | Cygnet Texkimp   Cygnet Texkimp (Northwich, U.K.) has signed a deal to supply an industrial-scale slitter-spooler to a manufacturer of aerospace-grade composites based in China. The company says that the machine will be used to slit sheets of carbon fiber prepreg in

As we celebrate National Composites Week, it’s important to look at the many ways the composites industry is working toward a sustainable world. Lightweighting in aerospace and automotive through the use of carbon fiber and other composites helps to conserve fuel and reduce CO2 emissions.

  2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray  Source | Chevrolet   The executive planning committee for the SPE Automotive Composites Conference & Expo (ACCE) has announced the event’s third keynote speaker.  SPE ACCE will be held September 4 – 6,

The Joint Warfighter Shelter of the Future (JWSOF) is a next-generation surgical shelter that expands via a series of lightweight composite expanding walls, roofs and floors.  Source | Core Composites As we celebrate the 4th day of National Composites week, the theme of the day is &ld

  SABIC demonstrated in a recent study that a 1-millimeter thick cover could meet all relevant industry performance specifications for very thin notebook computers or tablets. Source, all images | SABIC   Consumer electronics is a dynamic market with quite short cycle times bet

Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that it as of Aug. 1, it has completed its acquisition of all the shares of Renegade Materials Corp. (Springboro, Ohio, U.S.), a supplier of highly heat-resistant thermoset prepreg for the aerospace industry.  Teijin says its acquisition of Renegade Ma

Source | AIT Bridges AIT Bridges (Brewer, Maine, U.S.), a division of Advanced Infrastructure Technologies (AIT), a designer and supplier of composite bridge systems and structural components for commercial construction, announced on August 6 the addition of a composite tub girder, kn

  Source | Elevated Materials   In this episode of CWTalks, CW senior editor Scott Francis interviews Ryan Olliges, founder and CEO of Elevated Materials, along with the company’s chief technology office and co-founder Jaysen Harris. Elevated Materials aim

  Source | Thermwood Corp.   Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind., U.S.) has announced that it is collaborating with the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL; Dayton, Ohio, U.S.) and Boeing (Chicago, Ill., U.S.) on a research program to produce low-cost responsive tooling using addi

Carbon fiber manufacturer and composites fabricator SGL Carbon (Wiesbaden, Germany) reported on Aug. 14 that CEO Jürgen Köhler is resigning effective Aug. 31 following significant underperformance of the company in July 2019.  In a statement, SGL stated, “The actual result

  Mr. Shripad Naik, Hon’ble Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Ayush & Minister of State for Defence, inaugurates the new manufacturing facility for Composite Materials, Environmental Testing & Finishing, established at the Navi Mumbai Unit of BEL.  Source |

  BAC’s new Mono R supercar features graphene-enhanced carbon fiber body panels.  Source | Briggs Automotive Company Briggs Automotive Company (BAC, Liverpool, U.K.) has officially launched the all-new Mono R — a higher-performance, lighter and more advanced new generatio

  Vartega employees stand by during the ribbon-cutting of the company’s new 10,000-square-foot facility in Golden, Colo., U.S. Holding scissors are Katie Woslager, advanced industries senior manager at the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade; Ed Pilpel

Toray Composite Materials America Inc. (Tacoma, Wash., U.S.) is featuring its latest innovations in carbon fiber and composite materials. Toray will further define performance advancements in its TORAYCA T1100 carbon fiber. Toray says T1100 has established a new class of carbon fiber

Toray Advanced Composites (Morgan Hill, Calif., U.S.) is introducing TC522, a new highly toughened, modified epoxy prepreg resin system for the radome and communications market. TC522 reportedly has an excellent balance of electrical and mechanical properties for highly loaded di

Specialty Materials Inc. (SMI, Lowell, Mass., U.S.) is emphasizing its line of boron monofilament and prepreg materials, as well as SCS silicon carbide (SiC) monofilament. Boron monofilament offers extremely high compression strength in excess of 400 KSI. In addition, it provides high composite

SGL Carbon (Wiesbaden, Germany) is shining a light on product solutions made with composite materials and manufacturing technologies for future-oriented industries under the theme “The Weight and Performance Optimizers.” SGL’s entire product portfolio will be on display,

The Technical University of Munich hyperloop team has won the SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition setting a new record with a top speed of 463 km/h (288 mph). Source | TUM Hyperloop   Lately news about Hyperloop — the vacuum tube transport pod system envisioned by SpaceX (Hawthorne, Ca

Carbon fiber prepreg for Airbus A350 floor panels. Source | SGL Carbon     SGL Carbon (Wiesbaden, Germany) has extended its contract with aircraft manufacturer Elbe Flugzeugwerke (Dresden, Germany), a long-established German aircraft manufacturer, and will continue supplyi