Thermoset or thermoplastic? That’s a question often asked when CompositesWorld researches the stories it publishes. Is a particular composite application taking advantage of the high mechanical properties inherent in many thermoset resins, or making use of the weldability, formabilit

British machine builder and fiber converting specialist Cygnet Texkimp (Northwich, Cheshire, U.K.) has unveiled a production-ready thermoplastic line to manufacture thermoplastic tapes in large volumes. Cygnet Texkimp says its Direct Melt Impregnation Thermoplastic Line (DMITL) is b

Reduced fuel emissions and energy consumption, and the ability to produce single-aisle commercial aircraft at rates of at least 60 per month, are driving the Clean Sky 2 European partnership's technology development for the next generation of aircraft taking to the skies in 2035 and beyond

Photo Credit: herone GmbH Funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BmWi) as part of its civil aviation research program, herone GmbH (Dresden, Germany), a spin-off from the Technical University (TU) Dresden, announces the kick-off of its three-year InPro res

Photo Credit: Oribi On Oct. 27, Oribi Mfg. (Denver, Colo., U.S.) announced a strategic partnership with Energetic Solutions Inc. (Phoenix, Ariz., U.S.) to develop and commercialize thermoplastic composite components for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) law enfor

Photo Credit: Arkema On Oct. 26, in the presence of Agnès Pannier-Runacher, Minister Delegate for Industry attached to the Minister for the Economy, Finance and the Recovery, Arkema (Colombes, France) was awarded the 2020 Pierre Potier Prize for its Elium liquid thermo

Photo Credit: Bally Ribbon Mills Bally Ribbon Mills (BRM, Bally, Penn., U.S.) a company that designs, develops and manufactures engineered woven fabrics, announces its new line of advanced textile products, E-Webbings and TPCM thermoplastic materials, to increase part functi

Mar-Bal, Inc. (Chagrin Falls, Ohio, U.S.) has recently merged its AltraSet Composite Technologies company with Lattice Composites (Riverside, Calif., U.S.). The integrated merger will reportedly expand Mar-Bal’s composite technologies to now include Lattice’s customized e

AnalySwift, LLC, (West Jordan, Utah, U.S.) announced on Nov. 2 that Concordia University (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is participating in its recently launched Academic Partner Program (APP), and is using its two products, the VABS and SwiftComp simulation software — which enable

Whitewater Technology (WT, Greenville, S.C., U.S.), part of the C12 Technology Group, launched in late October it’s debut paddle range featuring high-performance paddles made with 100% recycled carbon fiber. The range, which features paddles for all disciplines, was design

In July 2020, Dieffenbacher GmbH (Eppingen, Germany) received an order from a U.S. customer to manufacture a direct-long-fiber thermoplastic molding (D-LFT; see “Continuous tapes, D-LFT meet up in new compression molding process”) line that includes a hydraulic press

Swiss-based adhesives manufacturer, Kisling (Wetzikon), has reportedly added 2K-Epoxy ergo 7440 to its ergo product structural portfolio. The new structural adhesive product is said to improve the bonding performance of carbon fiber parts for a variety of applications in the aut

Ethan Escowitz, CEO and co-founder of Arris Composites (Berkeley, Calif., U.S.) talked recently with CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan about Arris, its Additive Molding technology and how it’s being deployed into the marketplace. That discussion is excerpted here, but if you want to hea

Oldcastle Infrastructure (Atlanta, Ga., U.S.), a CRH company and provider of infrastructure products, reported on Nov. 5 that it has approved WEAV3D (Atlanta, Ga., U.S.) composite lattice material for reinforcement applications in Oldcastle’s polymer concrete and sheet molding co

Styrenics supplier, INEOS Styrolution (Frankfurt Germany), announced on Nov. 10 that its StyLight composite has been selected by Dr. Kurt Müller GmbH & Co. KG (DKM, Krefeld, Germany) for the company’s latest loudspeaker cone assembly. With a core business is the d

  CompositesWorld has published, with its November 2020 issue, a supplement titled “Next-Gen Materials and Processes” which reviews software, resin systems and manufacturing processes under development to meet the demands of emerging applications.  Coverage

It was reported on Nov. 18 that ATL Composites (Molendinar, Australia) was recently involved in a remediation project on a unit block in Coffs Harbour, Australia, with Binet Constructions (Quebec, Canada) and engineers. The project’s goal, to repair and reinforce the

For more than three decades, commercial aviation has increasingly embraced composite materials. In fact, more than half of critical structural components on several models of major commercial aircraft today are composites. As use of these materials has grown in terms of both volume and size of

Integrated Composite Products (ICP, Winona, Minn., U.S.) has developed selective polypropylene (PP) thermoplastic reinforcements, also known as Tension Members (TM), to help improve the performance of plastic parts. The reinforcements are said to offer mechanical engineers a lightweight o

Photo Credit: EconCore Thermoplastic honeycomb specialist EconCore (Leuven, Belgium) announced on Nov. 23 a partnership involving AZL Aachen (Aachen, Germany), Audi (Ingolstadt, Germany) and others to establish the potential of using composites for battery housings. This eight-mont