On July 26 EHang Holdings Ltd. (Guangzhou, China), an autonomous aerial vehicle (AAV) technology platform company, and the developer of the EHang 216 which incorporates composite materials, has announced that, as scheduled, it commenced operations at its new AAV production facility in Yun

A team of researchers from Nanyang Technological University’s (NTU) School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (Singapore), in collaboration with French specialty materials company Arkema (Colombes, France), have developed a safer bicycle helmet using a combination of

Strengthening its position in the automotive industry as it develops medium- and long-term opportunities in the field, Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) has announced the launch of the Teijin Sustainable Mobility website. With this platform, the group expects to be able to comprehensiv

On July 20, Toray Composite Materials America Inc. (TCMA, Tacoma, Wash., U.S.) a producer and supplier of carbon fiber materials and advanced composite prepreg, announced the launch of the Toray 2700 prepreg system. Epoxy-based 2700 is a high-performance, patented resin tec

Rassini (Mexico City, Mexico), a technology leader in composite vehicle suspension systems, has selected Hexcel’s (Stamford, Conn., U.S.) HexPly M901 prepreg system to speed up prototype and new product development cycles. Using this system, Rassini hopes to reduce overall time to market

Composites Evolution Ltd. (Chesterfield, U.K.) has teamed up with natural fiber reinforcement specialists Bcomp (Fribourg, Switzerland) to launch a new range of flax-epoxy prepreg materials, designed to offer enhanced sustainability without compromising on performance.&

The McMurtry Spéirling, a composite-intensive electric vehicle, making a run at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Bruce Wayne is not behind the wheel. Photo Credit: McMurty Automotive Although this vehicle might seem as though it is the next Batmobile, it is actually a legitimate, fully el

Photo Credit: Getty Images Announced on July 6, chemical fibers machinery producer MAE Spa (Piacenza, Italy) has received financial support from banking group UniCredit (Milan, Italy) of €35 million, to complete a €73.5 million contract for the design and construction o

Automation specialist Cevotec GmbH (Unterhaching, Germany) combines the traditional filament winding process with its automated fiber patch placement (FPP) technology to improve the material efficiency of carbon fiber composite tanks in hydrogen-powered electric vehicles (HEVs) and r

SAT-AM (More Affordable Small Aircraft Manufacturing) is a five-year project implemented under the Clean Sky 2 program financed by the European Commission. Entering its final stage of implementation, the project aims for a new step in the production of structures for aircraft in the 4-1

ÉireComposites (Inverin, Galway, Ireland), an innovative design, manufacturing and testing company, has announced a partnership with Manna Galway to design and develop an aerospace-grade carbon fiber-reinforced composite airframe for the drone-based food delivery service provi

Photo Credit: Epic Aircraft Private aviation company Epic Aircraft (Bend, Ore., U.S.) announced it has received FAA type certification(TC) for its E1000 GX model. The new E1000 GX is equipped with the Garmin GFCTM 700 automated flight control system and a Hartzell Propeller (Piqua,

The National Composites Centre (NCC, Bristol, U.K.), in collaboration with Arcola Energy (London, U.K.) and advanced composites manufacturer, Permali (Gloucester, U.K.), have developed a low-cost composite storage structure for hydrogen fuel cylinders that can be retrofitted to existing c

This information was pulled from the original article written by The American Society of Mechanical Engineers’ (ASME) Cassie Kelly.  Chengying “Cheryl” Xu, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at North Carolina State University, and her

Joining forces with the MaREI Centre at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUI Galway), through engineering partner Schottel Hydro (Germany), Sustainable Marine (Nova Scotia, Canada) reports that its new carbon fiber tidal turbine rotors have proven they can surviv

    Hexcel (Stamford, Conn., U.S.), a global advanced composites technologies company, announced on June 7 the successful maiden flight of a lightweight camera drone, developed using Hexcel HexPly carbon fiber prepregs. The composite drone was developed by a team of

According to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), every 24 seconds, a fire department responds to a fire in the U.S. In an effort to combat this problem, Mar-Bal Inc. (Chagrin Falls, Ohio, U.S.), a composites manufacturer and ISO 9001:2015-registered company

BBi Autosport (Huntington Beach, Calif., U.S.) is returning to Pikes Peak, Colorado, for the 99th running of the Pikes Peak International Hillclimb on June 27, 2021. Known as “The Race to the Clouds,” the automobile hill climb is regarded as one of the most famo

Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) announced that Teijin Carbon Vietnam Co., Ltd. (TCV, Ha Nam, Vietnam) has started operating commercially to manufacture carbon fiber products, including prepreg, a fiber sheet pre-impregnated with matrix resin as an intermediate material for composites. TCV in

Cevotec (Unterhaching, Germany) reports that it has developed an industrial solution to improve the storage efficiency of Type IV composite tanks in hydrogen-powered electric vehicles (EVs), reducing the amount of carbon fibers consumed by up to 15% while maintaining equivalent mechanic