Michelman (Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.; Hall 5, Booth G73) is showcasing its expanding portfolio of water-based fiber sizing solutions, including the Hydrosize product line. Hydrosize enables customers to tailor the surface chemistry of reinforcement fibers to the chemi

    The European Composites Industry Association (EuCIA, Brussels, Belgium) has announced the addition of new carbon fiber data to its Eco Impact Calculator, an online tool that enables composites companies to calculate the environmental impact associated with the production of the

XECARB HM is a range of technical polymers reinforced with high-modulus carbon fibers, and is the latest addition to thermoplastic compounds specialist Xenia Materials’ (Mussolente, Italy) XECARB product family. The XECARB HM range is based on PA6-ST, PA66, PA12, PA11, PEBA and PPA

  Zoltek Companies Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.) is the first carbon fiber producer to use green energy — electricity produced from renewable resources such as wind turbines — to manufacture a portion of its global carbon fiber production. At the start of the ye

    Ford Performance (Dearborn, Mich., U.S.) has announced upgrades to the Ford GT supercar for 2020, including the newly available Ford GT Liquid Carbon limited-edition option, which features a special clearcoat to emphasize the carbon fiber weave on GT’s lighweight sc

  In this episode of CWTalks, CW senior editor Scott Francis interviews John Riendeau, director of business d

    A project aimed at developing carbon fiber rocket fuel tanks has recently been awarded a $3 million grant by the Australian government. The $12.5 million research is a collaborative project between Gilmour Space Technologies (Helensvale, Australia), the University of South

    Bombardier Belfast and textiles manufacturer SAERTEX (Saerbeck, Germany) have reached an agreement to contractually extend their cooperation on the manufacture of carbon fiber noncrimp fabric wingskin components for the Airbus A220 aircraft. SAERTEX supplies tex

  Montefibre Carbon (Miranda de Ebro, Spain) reported on Feb. 18 that it is investing €16.2 million ($17.4 million USD) in its plant in Miranda de Ebro, Spain to produce polyacrylonitrile (PAN) precursor for conversion to carbon fiber with semi-aerospace quality and to build a

    Faurecia (Nanterre, France) was recently awarded a significant contract for fuel cell electric vehicle storage systems from Hyundai Motor Company (Seoul, South Korea). Faurecia will supply the entire hydrogen storage system, which will result in delivery of 10,000 composite hydro

  A combination of 3D printing technology and composite materials has enabled one university motorsports team the opportunity to design — and redesign — parts for its Formula SAE collegiate racecars for the past four years.

    A collaboration of researchers have launched a project for the standardized provision of engineering data for sheet molding compounds (SMC). The AZL Workgroup “High-Performance SMC” was developed by AZL Aachen GmbH in cooperation with Aachen Center for Integrat

    Epoxy specialist Sicomin (Marseille, France) has partnered with marine natural fiber composites manufacturer GREENBOATS (Bremen, Germany) on the supply of GreenPoxy bio-based resins for GREENBOATS’ FLAX 27 daysailer boat — t

Toray’s new porous carbon fiber (top left, showing hollow central shaft) features a controllable, nano- or micro-scale pore structure throughout the entire fiber (top right). That porous structure helps make the material an effective filtration medium that may be useful as the support

  Solar Orbiter, a collaborative mission between European Space Agency (ESA, Paris, France) and NASA (Washington, D.C., U.S.) to study the Sun, launched at 11:03 p.m. EST February 9 on a United Launch Alliance (ULA, Centennial, Colo., U.S.) Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at C

  CompositesWorld’s annual Carbon Fiber conference was held in Knoxville, Tenn., U.S., in late 2019 and included a pre-conference seminar focused on carbon fiber supply and demand, presented by Tony Roberts, a longtime composites industry veteran and proprietor of AJR Consulta

    Carbon fiber textile manufacturer Sigmatex (Benicia, Calif., U.S.) announced on Jan. 22 that it has launched a recycled carbon fiber non-woven fabric to the composites market. As part of its commitment to reduce the environmental impact of composites, Sigmatex r

  Structural composites specialist Carbon ThreeSixty (Wiltshire, U.K.) announced on Jan. 24 that it has installed an in-house Tailored Fiber Placement (TFP) cell, which the company says will enable it to deliver composite products three times faster than traditional methods whi

    9T Labs (Zurich, Switzerland) has announced that it has closed a seed financing round of $4.3 million to finish the development of its industrial 3D printing solution and to scale-up the first mass manufacturing industrial use cases.  9T Labs’ proprietary techn

    Recently announced composites events news includes new events and speaker abstract deadlines from the ACMA, AIMPLAS, KRÜSS​​​, Polynt-Reichhold and SPE.   ACMA opens registration for Composites Recycling Conference 2020 The American Composites Manufacture