Composites fabricator Composite Resources (Rock Hill, S.C., U.S.) reports that it has created a manufacturing alliance with high-temperature materials and process specialist Pyromeral (Barbery, France). Under the terms of the alliance, Composite Resources will use Pyromeral materials a

  Lightweight engineering specialist Formaplex (Portsmouth, U.K.) has strengthened its Design Engineering Services (DES) division with the creation of a Tooling Centre of Excellence. Formaplex builds tooling and engineered lightweight components for the aerospace and high

  Albany International Corp. (Rochester, N.H., U.S.) announced on March 2 that its subsidiary, Albany Engineered Composites Inc. (Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.), has received a contract from Lockheed Martin to manufacture composite wing skins on a state-of-the-art automated fiber placement

      Artemis Technologies Ltd. (Slough, U.K.) is a leading high-performance maritime design and applied technologies company. It has announced a partnership with advanced composites manufacturer Creative Composites (Lisburn, U.K.) to help realize the revolu

  Orenco Composites (Roseburg, Ore., U.S.) has signed a license agreement with FiberCore Holdings (Rotterdam, Netherlands) for the application of FiberCore’s InfraCore technology in the U.S. This collaboration allows Orenco to increase its market share in the U.

    Erickson Inc. (Portland, Ore., U.S.), a leading operator, maintainer and manufacturer of utility aircraft, announced on March 2 that it has received FAA approval for its next-generation composite main rotor blades (CMRB). After many years of manufacturing metal b

    Ducommun Incorporated (Santa Ana, Calif., U.S.) has announced that its Lightning Diversion Systems (LDS) brand, a global leader in the design and manufacture of segmented lightning diverter strips and protection devices for aerospace and defense markets, has signed an excl

Composites and advanced materials precision slitting company Bindatex (Bolton. U.K.) is announcing at JEC that it has cut 300 kg of prepreg and started work on its 14th order in two years for a large composites OEM supplying thermosets and thermoplastics. In its latest order, Bindatex is

Biteam (Stockholm, Sweden), a 3D weaving specialist, is featuring a new carbon fiber-based, small, cross-sectioned, profiled, tapered tube reinforcement for producing a stiff and lightweight composite structure. It is single-walled and measures about half a meter in length with cross-secti

Toray Industries Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) is featuring its five European subsidiaries. Occupants of the Toray Village will be Toray Carbon Fibers Europe, Zoltek, Composite Materials (Italy), Delta Preg, and Toray Advanced Composites. This will be the first time for all five subsidiaries to

  CIMComp, the EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub, has announced that two new core projects focused on advancements in composites manufacturing processes. Both projects will commence in May 2020 with a duration of 36 months each. The first project, called “Desig

    OceanGate (Everett, Wash., U.S.) announced on Feb. 26 that it has executed an agreement with NASA for the development of a carbon fiber pressure vessel for use in the company’s composites-intensive deep-sea submersibles. NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Cente

  Spoke Materials’ MIR-170 reinforced liquid composite was used to manufacture a composite chemical tank base component that weighed only 180 pounds and replaced a more than 1,000-pound stainless steel part.  CW photo | Scott Francis Spoke Materials Inc. (Indianapolis, Ind., U.

      Composites Germany (Berlin) has announced that the results of its 14th Composites Market Survey are now available. The survey identifies the latest KPIs for the fiber-reinforced plastics market and covers all the member companies of the three major umbrella 

    Material solutions provider Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany) reported on Feb. 26 that it has been chosen by Toyota Boshoku Corp. (a car component manufacturer of the Toyota Group) to jointly develop a new polyurethane composite material for use on the Toyota Motor Corp.’s e

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  Composite researchers at the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC, Sheffield, U.K.), along with industry partners from the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, are carrying out a £20 million (more than $25 million USD) project to develop li

    The Jules Verne Institute for Technological Research (IRT, Bouguenais, France) has inaugurated the MADRAS automated production line for production of composite textile preforms at rates 5-6 times faster than existing technologies. The 18-meter-long pilot line, installed at the Te

Spread tow brand TeXtreme (Borås, Sweden) is releasing new versions of its fabric in multiple colors, in collaboration with Hypetex (London, U.K.), creator of the world’s first colored carbon brand. The colors and coloring technique have been developed to give the spread tow g