Photo Credit: Sicomin Sicomin’s (Châteauneuf les Martigues, France) InfuGreen 810 bio-based epoxy infusion resin has been used for the infusion of the new Couach (Bordeaux, France) Fly 86/2600 Motor Yacht — reported to be one of the largest structures to be infused with bio

  A composite material’s key components are fibers and a resin. The fibers, typically made of glass or carbon fiber, provide strength and stiffness, but if used alone, cannot be made into a shape or form where these properties are applicable. Impregnating the fibers with resin foll

Xenia Materials’ (Vicenza, Italy) Xecarb carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites have been successfully introduced into a new application, Bft SpA’s (Schio, Italy) ELI AC/BT A range of in-ground non-reversible electromechanical motors for swing gates. B

Composites additive manufacturing specialist Markforged’s (Watertown, Mass., U.S.) FX20 printer is said to print flame-retardant, high-performance thermoplastic material with SABIC (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia) ULTEM 9085 in combination with Markforged’s proprietary contin

AIM3D (Rostock, Germany), a manufacturer of multi-material 3D printers, has developed a 3D printer for the composite extrusion modeling (CEM) process, which combines metal injection molding with additive manufacturing (AM). The ExAM 510 boasts a larger build area, higher precision and fas

Fabrication of composite aerostructures for commercial aircraft spans more than 50 years and has steadily progressed from smaller parts to very large primary structures — fuselage, wings, empennage, engines — developed in the early 2000s for the Boeing 787 and the Airbus A350.

SHD Group (Lincolnshire, U.K.), an industry supplier of high-quality structural and tooling prepreg materials, announces the launch of two new epoxy prepreg systems, both offering high bio-derived raw material content, as well as additive sustainability features. These novel materials hav

Swiss sensor and digitalization professional Aartesys AG (Biel) has commissioned Scheurer Swiss GmbH (Volketswil, Switzerland), a company with more thirty years of experience in lightweight construction for Formula 1, and an unnamed company specializing in the production of roun

Composites Evolution (Chesterfield, U.K.), a developer, manufacturer and supplier of prepregs for the production of lightweight structures, highlights its range of prepreg offerings and introduces a novel thermoplastic tape manufacturing capability. Composites Evolution has a family

A team of National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL, Golden, Colo., U.S.)  researchers, led by NREL senior wind technology engineer Derek Berry, are continuing to advance their novel techniques to manufacture advanced wind turbine blades by furthering their 

  Fraunhofer’s Pilot Plant Centre for Polymer Synthesis and Processing PAZ located in Schkopau, Germany, recently commissioned two Engel (Schwertberg, Austria) machines to strengthen its research and development (R&D) of lightweight applications using thermoplast

Suprem SA (Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland), offering 35 years of experience in developing and manufacturing products for additive manufacturing (AM), is launching a new brand, Filaprem, for continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastics for 3D printing. Filaprem materials are said to be tailo

Lingrove (San Francisco, Calif., U.S.), a materials and design firm focused on plant-based fibers and resins, announces new developments using Ekoa, the company’s high-performance, eco-friendly composite materials that incorporate a variety of natural fiber inputs and resin systems

DOMMINIO (Digital method for imprOved Manufacturing of next-generation MultifuNctIOnal airframe parts) is an EU-funded collaborative research project focused on the development of an innovative digital methodology to design, manufacture, maintain and pre-certify multifunctional

Oribi Composites (Denver, Colo., U.S.), a part of Re:Build Manufacturing (Framingham, Mass., U.S.), and Packard Performance (Clearfield, Utah, U.S.), announce the launch of what the company claims is the first high-performance off-road UTV wheels made with advanced thermoplastic composite mate

Clean Sky 2’s FUll Scale INnovative pressure BULkheads (FUSINBUL) project, funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020, aims to develop and validate two advanced manufacturing processes to reach a significant reduction in the overall production cost and flow for composite pressure b

  On Nov. 17, Collins Aerospace (Charlotte, N.C.) announced the acquisition of Dutch Thermoplastic Components (DTC, Almere, Netherlands), a company that develops and fabricates structural thermoplastic composite parts. With this acquisition, Collins will expand t

The National Composites Centre (NCC, Bristol, U.K.), in a collaboration with Nexam Chemical AB (Lomma, Sweden), has successfully manufactured a composite using a high-temperature resin, providing a solution to the challenge of using advanced materials in components that need to withstand

RS Sailing (Romsey, U.K.) is known for producing world-class sailing boats, and claims to use as many recyclable materials as possible in their production. Three years ago, the company formed sister brand RS Electric Boats, which specializes in the design and manufacture of battery-electric, r

Fraunhofer IPT development includes (clockwise from top left) thermoplastic composite aeroengine fan blades, hybrid composite-metal structures using laser structuring and AFP, structural health monitoring (SHM) of composites and thermoplastic composite tape processing systems, such as the PrePro