Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. (Mojave, Calif., U.S.) and The Spaceship Co. (Mojave, Calif., U.S.) announced on May 1 the successful completion of its first SpaceShipTwo test flight from Spaceport America, based in Las Cruces, N.M., U.S. This glide flight marks the inaugural

Park Aerospace Corp.’s (Newton, Kan., U.S.) E-752-MTS mid-toughened 350°F (177°C) cure epoxy system is designed for primary and secondary aircraft structure applications, such as wing and empennage structures, control surfaces, fuselages and engine nacelles. To provide processing

YG-1 (Incheon, South Korea) has launched four new solid-carbide fiberglass routers for CNC or hand routers to handle every machining for fiberglass and other high-performance fibers. The company says the new routers are optimized in composition, cutting angles, flute strength

Composite materials firm Dura Composites (Dura, Clacton-on-Sea, U.K.) announced on April 21 that it has been awarded a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the Innovation category, for the company’s pioneering rapid-deployment train station platform solution known as Dura Platf

Polygon Composites Technology (Walkerton, Ind., U.S.), manufacturer of composite tubing solutions for bearings, dielectric applications, surgical devices and more, has launched PolySlide composite tubing for pneumatic and hydraulic cylinders. PolySlide tubing replace

    Specialty materials company Neenah Inc. (Alpharetta, Ga., U.S.) reported on April 2 that it did not close on its agreement to acquire composite materials supplier Vectorply Corp. (Phenix City, Ala., U.S.) on April 1 as originally announced. Neenah had agreed to acquire Vecto

    SGL Carbon (Wiesbaden, Germany) reported on April 21 that it has been selected by BMW Group (Munich, Germany) to produce a glass fiber-based cover plate to be used on battery enclosures for a future plug-in hybrid vehicle model. SGL Carbon had previously announced tha

  Longtime composites veteran Dr. Charles (Chuck) Segal passed away in North Carolina on April 5 at age 91 of complications from Parkinson’s disease. Segal built a long, impressive career in the composites industry and developed a strong specialization in the manufacture and a

  “CSIRO’s work is centered around the first steps in carbon fiber production, including the polymerization of acrylonitrile into polyacrylonitrile and then spinning and further processing PAN to produce a higher-quality and cheaper precursor fiber,” explains Abbott.

    Ultralight aircraft specialist Flight Design (Hörselberg-Hainich, Germany) has chosen Hexcel (Stamford, Conn., U.S.) to supply low-temperature curing prepreg for its aircraft production. Specifically, Hexcel’s HexPly M79 carbon fiber prepregs 

Carbon Fiber Recycling’s 35,000-square-foot Tazewell, Tenn., U.S. recycling facility is under construction and expected to open in early 2021, but the company reports that it is now accepting carbon fiber waste.  Using a proprietary, continuous-flow pyrolysis pr

    Chromaflo Technologies adds Luc Driessen to Global Innovation and Technology Team Global colorant systems, chemical and pigment dispersions supplier Chromaflo Technologies (Ashtabula, Ohio, U.S.) announced on April 16 that Luc Driessen has been added as the ne

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

    Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the demand for intensive care beds is rapidly increasing worldwide. The SOS - Smart Operating Shelter - project is an important resource, enabling rapid set up of mobile healthcare units for the treatment of infected patients. The SOS project is l

    Arris Composites (Berkeley, Calif., U.S.) reported on April 10 that it has received $48.5 million in Series B funding. With the new funding, Arris says it will be expanding its proprietary composite manufacturing capabilities (see “Additive Molding promises

  Solvay (Alpharetta, Ga., U.S.) reported on April 16 that it has signed a long-term exclusive agreement through 2027 with Honda Aircraft (Greensboro, N.C., U.S.), for the supply of innovative composites and adhesives to be used across Honda aircraft business jet HA-420 and Eli

  Cevotec (Unterharching, Germany) has already widely expanded the range of components that can be produced with its Fiber Patch Placement (FPP) technology by scaling the patch size 50X. This development, aimed primarily at aerospace requirements, has now also resulted in a new &ldqu

  Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota City, Japan) and Hino Motors, Ltd. (Hino, Japan) have agreed to jointly develop a heavy-duty fuel cell truck, and to proceed with initiatives toward its practical use including verification tests. The heavy-duty fuel cell truck in this joint develo

  Editor’s note: CompositesWorld received several new product and technology announcements ahead of JEC World 2020, which had been scheduled for March 3-5. Although that exhibition was postponed to May, CW is now publishing the announcements we received. This is one of them. Gurit

  Irkut Corp. (Moscow, Russia) reports that its fourth MS-21-300 flight test aircraft made a nonstop flight from Irkutsk to the Ramenskoye airfield in Russia on March 17, continuing flight tests in pursuit of certification from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA, C