Zünd America Inc. (Oak Creek, Wis., U.S.) offers a variety of digital cutting and workflow solutions tailor-made for the composites industry, including demonstration of its fully configured Zünd M-2500 for cutting and marking/labeling. Ideal for the automotive and aero

Note: Information and images for this article were obtained from the course “Advanced Forming of Thermoplastic Composites” taught by the ThermoPlastic composite Research Center (TPRC). Thermoplastic composites (TPCs) first gained advantage with the demand for faster production

Photo Credit: C. A. Litzler C. A. Litzler Co. Inc. (Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.) highlights its improved, standard thermoplastic prepreg machines. The systems are available for use with water-based resins, various fibers and can produce prepreg at various widths. Features of the system include:

Distributor Composites One (Arlington Heights, Ill., U.S.), the Closed Mold Alliance and 15 industry partners are presenting live demonstrations showcasing the latest innovations in vacuum infusion, prepreg processing, silicone bag molding, light resin transfer molding (LRTM) and&nb

Photo Credit: Airborne Airborne (The Hague, Netherlands) introduces its latest automated solution for composites manufacturing. The plug-and-play, integrated automated kitting system can pick composite plies directly from the conveyor cutter to sort, sequence and store them in a compact and

Fiber converting specialist and custom machinery manufacturer Cygnet Texkimp (Wincham, Northwich, U.K.) showcases the launch of its Filament Winding Innovation Hub, designed to accelerate the use of composites in hydrogen technology. It is the first phase of development in the company&r

OTOMcomposite (Enschede, Netherlands) is a startup that provides engineering services and software for automated fiber placement (AFP), laser-assisted tape placement (LATP) and laser-assisted tape winding (LATW) technology. LATP and LATW are promising manufacturing techniques to produce adv

On June 27, a modified 911 Porsche GT2 RS Clubsport car from Champion Motorsport (Pompano Beach, Fla., U.S.) finished first in the Time Attack 1 Division of the 99th Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Colorado Springs, Colo., U.S. One of the secrets to the team’s success was the

AON-M2 build chamber with chopped carbon fiber/PEEK part made with Solvay KetaSpire AM filament CF10 LS1. Photo Credit: AON3D AON3D (Montreal, Canada) has announced its new AON M2+ high-temperature industrial 3D printer. Featuring what it claims is the industry’s largest sub-$

  Unitized structures are being used to construct lighter and more environment-friendly aircraft. Such advanced, multi-layered composite materials offer high strength-to-weight ratios and thus, are being increasingly used in aerospace and shipbuilding industries amongst others. Howeve

Photo Credit: Magnolia Advanced Materials Inc. Magnolia Advanced Materials Inc. (Atlanta, Ga., U.S.) is a manufacturer of high-performance epoxy systems that include aerospace adhesives, syntactics, liquid shims, conductive epoxies, sealants, joint fillers and a wide variety of resins for RT

For more than 15 years, Teubert (Blumberg, Germany) says it has been developing, designing and building machines for composites, including its continuous compression molding (CCM) system. Special customer requirements can be achieved and executed, whether it is the aerospac

Toray Industries (Tokyo, Japan) and its North America carbon fiber divisions — Toray Advanced Composites (Morgan Hill, Calif., U.S.), Toray Composites Materials America (TCMA, Tacoma, Wash., U.S.) and Toray Performance Materials Corp. (TPMC, Camarillo, Calif., U.S.) — are highlight

Airbus (Toulouse, France) is in the midst of a broad effort to work with aerocomposites fabricators on the development of out-of-autoclave (OOA) structures for the company’s Wing of Tomorrow (WOT) program. These structures are being delivered to Airbus in 2021 and will be assembled into

This fall, Johns Manville (JM, Denver, Colo., U.S.) plans to introduce the first products in its Neomera line. Initial offerings will be in situ-polymerized, woven fiberglass-reinforced polyamide 6 (PA6) organosheet, but the line will soon expand to include non-crimp fabrics

Photo Credit: Heraeus Noblelight and Compositadour   The main objective of the Clean Sky 2 (CS2) project FRAMES, which began in July 2020, is to validate a manufacturing approach being used to produce the Advanced Rear End Demonstrator manufactured by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) as pa

Lohmann Corp. & Subsidiaries (Orange, Virg., U.S.) has expanded its Reactive Chemistry Adhesives for composite-related applications, which now includes UV-LUX, what the company claims is the world’s first UV light-activated adhesive with color change. UV-LUX is

Avient Corp. (Avon Lake, Ohio, U.S.), a provider of specialized and sustainable material solutions and services, features its wide-ranging  thermoplastic and thermoset composite materials portfolio at CAMX. According to the company, its advanced composites provide high strength

A joint development between Electroimpact (Mukilteo, Wash., U.S.), Toray Advanced Composites (Morgan Hill, Calif., U.S.) and Janicki Industries (Sedro-Woolley, Wash., U.S.) has reportedly achieved a leap forward in the high-speed manufacture of large thermoplastic composite parts. Th

Aerostructures production has been heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, but aerospace efforts did not necessarily follow suit, at least for Web Industries (Marlborough, Mass., U.S.), a company that offers thermoplastic tape-slitting services for a variety of customer applications. Accord