Photo Credit: Cimarron Composites Cimarron Composites (Huntsville, Ala., U.S.) has signed a five-year purchase agreement with Shell Oil company to provide advanced composite cylinders for hydrogen gas transport modules. Operating at 517 bar (7,500 psi), the 2,000-liter cylinders wi

Photo Credit: ESA On Sept. 3, composites specialist Bercella Srl (Varano de’ Melegari, Italy) reported the Vega VV16’s successful launch of the Small Spacecraft Mission Service (SSMS) from Kourou Space Center in French Guiana. The rocket also carried into orbit the carbon fiber-rein

Photo Credit: Jiangsu Hansu On Sept. 4 thermoplastic composites manufacturer, Jiangsu Hansu New Material Co., Ltd. (Suzhou, China) introduced at the China Composites Expo 2020, its new family of high-performance, unidirectional (UD) composite tapes — H-poly-Stallone-CF7000_PEI — mad

GeoTree Solutions (Houston, Tex., U.S.), a division of ClockSpring|NRI for high-performance infrastructure solutions, reported in May that it has signed an agreement with FRP concrete reinforcement and strengthening company Owens Corning Infrastructure Solutions LLC  (

New BreakThru Technology launched by Georgia-Pacific Chemicals (Atlanta, Ga., U.S.) is said to have been shown in laboratory testing to reduce free formaldehyde in phenolic fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) resins to below 1000ppm (less than 0.1%). The company notes that the technology

It was reported on July 27 that AIM Altitude (Dorset, England), designer, manufacturer of cabin interiors has been working with Composites Evolution Ltd. (Chesterfield, England) and Sheffield Hallam University (Sheffield, U.K.) on a research and development (R&D) projec

According to U.K.-based McLaren, a recent pioneering breakthrough that may further transform motorsports and beyond, is a natural fiber racing seat, considered to be the very first Formula One (F1) car part to be made of renewable textile fibers. Collaborating with sustainable lightweight man

CNC machinery manufacturer Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind., U.S.) recently reported that it has successfully demonstrated a new approach to large scale 3D printing using its patented vertical layer print (VLP) technology. Vertical layer printing prints on a vertical rather than horizontal pl

Gummiwerk KRAIBURG GmbH (Waldkraiburg, Germany), a company of the Kraiburg Group featured on July 27 its Kraibon elastomers product. Comprised of a thin film made of non-vulcanized elastomers, the polymer chemically bonds to different materials with no additional production step needed, formin

Aerospace company, Novo Navis’ (Phoenix, Ariz., U.S.) Fiber Dynamics division recently announced that it has succeeded in developing a weaving loom that creates solid blocks of 3D woven carbon fiber material that can be machined or milled, just like aluminum. Novo Navis say

Bcomp (Fribourg, Switzerland), a manufacturer of lightweight solutions for the automotive industry, reported its partnership with Swedish company, Volta Trucks. Initiating the development of the Volta Zero, which is said to be the world’s first purpose-built, 16-tonne electric vehicl

Boeing (Chicago, Ill., U.S.) received a 2020 Sustainability Leadership Award on August 13 from the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM, Washington, D.C., U.S.). The award recognizes the company's innovative efforts to recycle aerospace carbon fiber, diverting waste away fr

CompositesWorld announced on Aug. 19 that the 2020 iteration of its annual Carbon Fiber conference, originally scheduled to take place in Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S., will be presented entirely digitally, online. The digital version of the conference, called Carbon Fiber NOW, will be prese

AIT Bridges, a division of Advanced Infrastructure Technologies (AIT; Brewer, Maine, U.S.), a designer and supplier of composite bridge systems and structural components for commercial construction, announced on August 18 that it has delivered the first composite arch bridge system to the West

  C. A. Litzler Co. Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) offers an entry-level, solution-based vertical prepreg treater for the composites industry. The system is designed for unwinding, dipping, drying and winding of woven fabric under controlled conditions, and uses a smaller ov

Janicki Industries (Sedro-Woolley, Wash., U.S.) is featuring its fast prototyping process for flyaway parts and tooling for urban air mobility (UAM) vehicle manufacturers. Specifically, the company highlights its use of large-scale, 5-axis milling to create large, precise, prototyp

    Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) announced on July 21 that it has qualified its Tenax dry reinforcements (DR) carbon fiber materials for the Airbus A320neo wing spoilers using an automated resin transfer molding (RTM) process developed by Spirit AeroSystems (Wichita, Kan., U.S.), a l

Mitsubishi Chemical Corp. (MCC, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan) announced on July 30 that it has decided to acquire two carbon fiber recycling companies, CFK Valley Stade Recycling GmbH & Co. KG (Wischhafen, Germany) and carboNXT GmbH (Wischhafen, Germany), through its subsidiary Mi

On August 12, it was reported that consortium partners, SGL Carbon (Wiesbaden, Germany), the Bavarian Center for Applied Energy Research e.V. (ZAE Bayern, Würzburg, Germany) as joint coordinator and the furnace manufacturer FCT Systeme GmbH (Effelder-Rauenstein, Germany), have succeed

 Rize Inc. (Concord, Mass., U.S.) a next-generation additive manufacturing company announced on August 13 the immediate availability of its Rizium glass fiber (GF) composite 3D printing material, which is said to retain high-dimensional stability to support parts w