Source | Rock West Composites Rock West Composites (RWC, Salt Lake City, Utah) recently celebrated the full operational capacity of its new, dedicated filament winding facility. The company expanded into a third manufacturing bay at its Salt Lake City  facility, adding 20,000 square feet o

Source | Exel Composites   Exel Composites (Vantaa, Finland), in a partnership with bus and coach supplier Yutong (Zhengzhou, China), has provided and delivered fiberglass profiles for 33 electric buses in Helsinki, Finland. Exel Composites provided Yutong with the skirt and sid

Complexity and strength. Components like the B bracket for aircraft storage bins exhibit both high complexity and a requirement for high strength — a combination for which the hybrid overmolding technique is especially suited. Source, all images | TxV Aero Composites   Often in

Source | ELG Carbon Fibre Ltd.     ELG Carbon Fibre (ELG; Coseley, U.K.) has announced that, in a partnership with INEOS Team UK (Portsmouth, U.K.), it has processed more than 1.2 metric tonnes of the team’s carbon fiber waste materials and used them t

SGL Carbon's SIGRACET gas diffusion layer. Source | SGL Carbon    SGL Carbon (Wiesbaden, Germany) and the Hyundai Motor Group (Seoul, South Korea) announced Dec. 4 that they have extended their supply agreement for production of gas diffusion layers for Hyundai’s NEXO fuel

    This blog is a companion piece to my Dec 2019 feature article, “Removing barriers to lightweighting ships

Dowty Propellers’ use of braiding machines in the manufacture of composite propeller blades enhances productivity and quality. Two braiding machines acquired by Dowty Propellers are being set up at the company’s new production facility, repair operation and headquarters in Brockw

Source | Pocket Tripod Yesterday, CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan sent me a link to a cool gadgety thingy for a holiday gift idea that set the two us off on an end-of-day wild goose chase for carbon fiber gift ideas. Holiday earworms ran through my head as I searched for carbon fiber gadets,

  Orbex headquarters in Forres, Scotland.  Source | Orbex In November, Scotland-based spaceflight company Orbex (Forres, U.K.) offered a peek into its rocket factory, sharing photos of how the company is using advanced engineering techniques and materials to create nex

  Source | Airbus   Albany International Corp. (Rochester, N.H., U.S.) announced on Dec. 6 that its subsidiary, Albany Engineered Composites, has signed a two-year Collaborative Research Agreement (CRA) with Airbus (Toulouse, France) on the Wing of Tomorrow program, to apply Albany&

Source | Web Industries Inc., with permission from Rubik’s Brand Ltd.   In the race to scale up production to meet commercial aircraft demand, there is no single way to make the best airplane. As aerospace OEMs consider all of their material and processing options, they will continu

  Ahlstrom-Munksjö (Mikkeli, Finland) has agreed to sell its glass fiber reinforcement business in Mikkeli to Vitrulan Composites Oy, a fully-owned subsidiary of Vitrulan Group and part of the family-owned industrial holding ADCURAM Group, for €6.5 million ($7

  SOURCE | Plastic Omnium     Plastic Omnium (Levallois, France) has recently won a significant order from a German manufacturer for the development of 350-bar hydrogen tanks. The contract signed for bus equipment is the largest project in Europe at this time for this typ

Sustainability and environmental responsibility are becoming increasingly prevalent drivers of technology trends in the automotive industry. Low-energy and low-emission vehicles have become a priority for the international automotive sector, and trends toward alternative transportation technol

  Carbon fiber production line at SGL Carbon’s multi-line facility in Moses Lake, Wash., U.S. The plant, originally established to make carbon fiber for BMW, produces 50k tow carbon fibers. Source: SGL Carbon. Source | SGL Carbon   Specialty chemicals giant Solvay (B

  CEAD and Siemens intensify their collaboration and showcase their latest development the AM Flexbot. Source | Siemens, CEAD.   CEAD is a technology supplier of 3D printing equipment on the frontier of large-scale 3D printing with glass and carbon fibers. The CFAM Pr

  Source | Technical University of Munich Technical University of Munich (TUM, Munich, Germany) researchers have been working to develop a process that uses halophilic algae, algae that thrive in high salt concentrations, to remove CO2 from the atmosphere and subsequently to make car

  Source | Dell Carbon Conversions Inc. (CCI, Lake City, S.C., U.S.), a global leader in carbon fiber reclamation, has partnered with Dell (Round Rock, Texas, U.S.) to advance the company’s sustainability goals and, in the process, has enhanced the Dell Latitude brand premium design

  Porous carbon fiber with continuous pore structure. Source | Toray Toray Industries Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that it has created the world’s first porous carbon fiber with a nano-sized continuous pore structure. The fiber is designed for use as a support layer

  Source | Fibreglass Developments Ltd. Fibreglass Developments Ltd. (Feilding, New Zealand) has manufactured a composite living module for Scott Base, New Zealand’s Antarctic research station. The company was contracted to build the first mobile habitat in a new, more durable const