Vattenfall has signed a contract with Windcat Workboats for the provision of crew transfer vessels (CTVs) for the Hollandse Kust Zuid 1&2 offshore wind farm in the Dutch North Sea. SOURCE | Windcat Workboats Holland Composites (Lelystad, Netherlands) is well known in the maritime offshore s

George E. Bye, CEO of Bye Aerospace with the eFlyer 2 prototype  Source | Bye Aerospace Bye Aerospace (Englewood, Colo., U.S.) has announced further progress with its eFlyer 2 developmental prototype flight test program, releasing new data that continues to confirm the benefits o

    Today, up to 80% of plastics can be replaced by bio-based fillers such as wood flour and cork or reinforced by natural fibers. These biocomposites are available for almost every application — including packaging, consumer goods, building façades a

    A new collaborative robot cell for the manufacture of flare housings. Source | Quickstep      Quickstep Holdings Ltd. (Sydney, Australia) opened a new flare housing manufacturing facility at its Bankstown, Australia site on Oct. 13. Quickstep, an indepe

The Lunar Project concept motorcycle. Source | Carboni e Metalli   Italian startup Carboni e Metalli (Varano Melegari, Italy) has developed a composites-intensive concept motorcycle that pays homage to the Apollo missions. The Lunar Project motorcycle recently won the &ldqu

Tool tracking in Plataine’s software for Composites 4.0 production allows manufacturers to optimize tool usage, maintenance and capital expense. SOURCE | Plataine. Ben-Bassat says that with this knowledge of what the tools have been doing (parts, process, quality), Plataine’

Source | Dymag Dymag (Chippenham, Wiltshire, U.K.), designer and manufacturer of lightweight carbon composite hybrid and full carbon wheels for cars and motorcycles, has announced plans to raise an additional £5m of growth capital in the next year, resulting in a new production line ultim

Mitsui Chemicals (Tokyo, Japan) has introduced TAFNEX PP-CF UD, a unidirectional carbon fiber/polypropylene tape available in widths of 12 to 600 mm in lengths up to 600 m per spool, with a fiber volume content of 40-50%. The company says the polypropylene matrix provides optimal proc

    Atlas Composites (Ilkeston, U.K.), a parts manufacturer supplying into the motorsports, aviation, defense and space industries, has implemented Plataine’s Material & Asset Tracking (MAT) industrial IoT solution and announced major improvements in manufact

The latest composites industry event news includes an upcoming workshop on recycled carbon fiber composites, a convention dedicated to filament winding and a Nov. 15 deadline to submit abstracts for the SAMPE 2020 conference and exhibition. Source | ELG Carbon Fibre Workshop on Recycled Carbo

  Source | GE Renewables   GE Renewable Energy's (Paris, France) Haliade-X wind turbines will be used by Dogger Bank Wind Farms, which is developing what will reportedly become the world’s largest offshore wind farm off the coast of the U.K., according to a

The ACRIM (All Composite Reduced Inertia Modular Wheels) wheel project, which is being developed by a consortium of UK composite experts comprising Carbon ThreeSixty, Far UK and Bitrez Ltd, has won funding from the Niche Vehicle Network.  Source | Carbon ThreeSixty   A project t

Spirit AeroSystems’ ASTRA fuselage panel demonstrator, on display at CAMX 2019. CW photo | Heather Francis The CAMX 2019 trade show, held Sept. 23-25 in Anaheim, Calif., U.S., showcased the latest processes, materials and solutions in composites manufacturing, and highlighted new

Gurit (Zurich, Germany), as part of its multi-year plan to expand manufacturing capacity and enhance its technology program, will expand its aerospace prepreg manufacturing facility in Kassel, Germany, and stop production at its site in Zullwil, Switzerland. The company’s aerospace busin

  Source | Nova-Institute   Nova-Institute (Hürth, Germany) has published a list of all European producers and suppliers of biocomposite granulates, including 30 producers from nine countries. The amount of granulates produced and sold in 2018 was almost 130,000 tons, whic

Henkel and Carbon Revolution join forces to speed OEM automotive one-piece carbon fiber wheels development.  Source | Henkel   Henkel (Düsseldorf, Germany), a global provider of high-impact solutions based on adhesives, sealants and functional coatings, has reache

  Kordsa Composites Technologies Center of Excellence in Istanbul, Turkey. Source | Kordsa   You would be forgiven

  Scott Bader’s Crestapol resins were used to produce a curved, multi-hollow pultruded carbon fiber bumper beam for the 2020 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray.  Source | Scott Bader Scott Bader (Northamptonshire, U.K.) and Shape Corp. (Grand Haven, Mich., U.S.) ha

  Source | Rieder   A recently-built Chicago apartment building, designed by architect Jeanne Gang and called Solstice on the Park, incorporates glass fiber concrete facade cladding to combine high-rise architecture with climate-friendly construction. Located in the Hyde Park distr

  Source | Chomarat   Chomarat Group (Ardèche, France) has developed a stitched unidirectional (UD) glass fiber reinforcement adapted for mass production of automotive leaf springs. Reportedly 60% lighter compared to steel parts, the leaf springs are produced t