Symmetrix Composite Tooling (Bristol, R.I., U.S.) a full-service composite tooling manufacturer of complex and innovative designs, announced a supplier/technical partnership with New York yacht club American Magic, a U.S. challenger for the 36th America’s Cup next March 2

Carbon fiber colorization technologies company Hypetex (Fitzrovia, London, U.K.) and SHD Composites (Sleaford, U.K.), manufacturer of advanced composite tooling and component pregreg materials, have partnered to supply Hypetex-colored fabrics with SHD’s MTC epoxy resin sys

Photo Credit: Polestar Polestar (Göteborg, Sweden), a performance electric vehicle brand of automaker Volvo and Chinese manufacturer Geely Holdings, confirmed in late September that it will put its Precept battery electric vehicle (BEV), announced earlier this year as a concept v

JEC Group reported on Oct. 29 that RAMPF Composite Solutions (Wixom, Mich., U.S.) has started operations in its new factory, located in Ontario, Mich. The 73,400-square-foot facility features state-of-the-art infrastructure for the production of premium carbon fiber and glas

Photo Credit: Brightlands Materials Center Brightlands Materials Center (Gleen, Netherlands) is a research organization that develops innovative materials solutions for a sustainable future, with inspired talents and in collaborations with industry, academia and en

Photo Credit: Toray Industries An Integrated Annual Report 2020 issued by Toray Industries Inc. (Tokoyo, Japan) on Oct. 16 presents the Toray Group’s financial results for the company’s fiscal year 2019, which ended on March 31, 2020 (prior to the full onset of the coronaviru

In this episode of CW Talks: The Composites Podcast, host and CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan talks to Ethan Escowitz, co-founder and CEO of Arris Composites (Berkeley, Calif., U.S.). Ethan discusses how he got into composites manufacturing, the Additive Molding technology that is the foundation

Advanced technology company YCOM (Parma, Italy) and Bcomp (Fribourg, Switzerland) announced on Oct. 20 the successful crash-test of a natural fiber Front Impact Absorbing Structure (FIAS), what is said to be the first of its kind. Designed by YCOM and using Bcomp’s high-

Photo Credit: Sojtiz Sojitz Corporation (Tokoyo, Japan) has announced it will invest in IsoTruss (Provo, Utah, U.S.), a construction startup company manufacturing carbon fiber structures, specifically telecommunication towers. With this investment through a third-party allotment of sha

Photo Credit: Thermwood CNC machinery manufacturer Thermwood Corp. (Dale, Ind., U.S.) recently printed several sections of a 51-foot-long yacht hull mold to demonstrate how only a single mold may be needed for the manufacture of larger vessels, such as yachts. The printed sections of

Photo Credit: Eviation Aircraft Eviation Aircraft (Qadima, Israel) has selected Potez Aéronautique (Aire-sur-l'Adour, France) to design and develop the carbon fiber doors of Alice, an all-electric regional aircraft launched by Eviation.  According to Potez, this is th

Photo Credit: Clean Sky The Fastcan consortium, consisting of Germany-based KLK Motorsport Gmbh and M&F Gerg GmbH, reported on Oct. 1 that the first complex composite component — the carbon fiber canopy structure — for Airbus Helicopter’s RACER (Rapid And Cost-

Photo Credit: Roth Composites Machinery It was reported on Oct. 9 that Roth Composite Machinery GmbH (Steffenberg, Germany) developed a new production line for hotmelt impregnation, the Rothabow 600 Prepreg Production Line, for its customer, prepreg manufacturer, Krempel GmbH (Stuttgart, Germ

Photo Credit: VABO Composites In early October, VABO Composites (Emmeloord, Netherlands) reported the completion and successful transport of its carbon fiber composite superstructure, a project contracted for Dutch builder Royal Van Lent’s 77-meter superyacht. With transport ta

Photo Credit: Virgin Galactic Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc. (Mojave, Calif., U.S.) reported on Oct. 14 that the company is preparing for the SpaceShipTwo’s first spaceflight from its operational base at Spaceport America (Las Cruces, N.M., U.S.) (see “SpaceShip Two completes s

Borealis (Vienna, Austria), a supplier of polyolefin plastic materials for engineering applications in the automotive industry highlights the availability of Fibremod, its innovative carbon- and glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene (PP) technology, for the North American automotive market. The

Photo Credit: Saertex On August 27, Safran Nacelles (Burnley, U.K.) and Saertex GmbH (Saerbeck, Germany) signed a 10-year contract on cooperation for the production of aircraft equipment made of carbon fiber fabrics. Under the contract, Saertex will supply multiaxial carbon fibe

CompositesWorld’s annual Carbon Fiber conference, renamed Carbon Fiber NOW and moved completely online for 2020, has opened registration and posted the agenda for the event. Carbon Fiber NOW will be held Nov. 17-19, 2020. Carbon Fiber NOW will provide an objective, comprehensi

Photo Credit: Boom Supersonic On Oct. 7, Boom Supersonic (Denver, Colo., U.S.) unveiled its now fully-assembled supersonic (faster than sound) 1/3-scale demonstrator, XB-1. XB-1 is the world’s first independently developed supersonic jet and, according to Boom Supersonic, will d

Photo Credit: Mitsubishi Mitsubishi Chemical Advanced Materials, Inc. (MCAM; Lenzburg, Switzerland) global manufacturer of high-performance thermoplastic materials announced on Sept. 1 its strategic alliance with R3 Composites Corp. (Grabill, Ind., U.S.) a Tier 1 supplier in compression mol