Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn., U.S.) reported that it has been a key partner with General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI, San Diego, Calif., U.S.) in the development and production of carbon fiber-reinforced thermoplastic components for complex structures on GA-ASI’s unmanned aeria

The International Conference and Exhibition on Thermoplastic Composites (ITHEC, Bremen, Germany) will be held online over three days instead of two for the first time. Every two years, ITHEC gathers the thermoplastic composites community and presents its latest global developments. For ITHEC

Westlake Plastics Co. (Lenni, Pa., U.S.) and Environmental Composites Inc. (Utica, N.Y., U.S.) have jointly launched Aerolite Carbon, a carbon fiber textile designed for compatibility with standard thermoforming equipment such as vacuum forming or pressur

  Teijin Carbon Europe GmbH (Wuppertal, Germany) the Teijin Group's carbon fiber business in Europe announced on July 30 that it has upgraded to Tier 2 membership with the National Composites Centre (NCC, Bristol, U.K.) with the goal to support next-generation aerospace manufacturing

Altair (Troy, Mich., U.S.), a global technology company providing solutions in product development, high-performance computing (HPC) and data analytics, announced on August 4 the winners of the 2020 Altair Enlighten Awards. Presented jointly with the Center for Automotive Research (CAR, An

BASF (Wyandotte, Mich., U.S.) and Toyota Motor North America Research & Development (Ann Arbor, Mich., U.S.) announced on August 5 the company’s lightweighting success with the new 2021 Toyota Sienna. The vehicle, scheduled to launch later this year, recently won the prestigious Alta

DUNA-USA (Baytown, Texas, U.S.) introduces the addition of its new polyurethane Corafoam tooling board product line, Corafoam HPT-35 2lb/ft³.  It is available in blocks up to 29.5" x 48" x 96" and is said to be

Royal DSM (Geleen, Netherlands) a global science-based company in nutrition, health and sustainable living, announced on August 13 new glass-filled polypropylene (PP) pellet material which has been developed specifically for 3D printing, enabling easy and consistent production of str

As CW continues to celebrate the composites industry this week for National Composites Week, we are thinking about recent trends and developments across the industry. There are many, but high on our list are thermoplastic composites, composites recycling and developments in tooling

In recognition of National Composites Week, CompositesWorld is looking back on the top 20 stories of the past decade. These stories are still relevant today and show the impact of composites across time. Are composites essential? The answer in these stories proves to be yes. Basalt Fibers: Al

Specialty chemicals company Lanxess (Cologne, Germany) has recently developed a new range of MDI polyether prepolymers containing renewable, bio-based raw materials. Marketed under the brand name Adiprene Green, the products are said to be suitable as replacement for existing fossil-b

Personal, motor-driven transportation devices have a lot of names: automated people movers (APM), electric skateboards, hoverboards and others. One of the latest to go on the market, from Cocoa Motors Inc. (Tokyo, Japan), is called WALKCAR, which the company says comes from the idea of

Hexcel (Stamford, Conn., U.S.), announced on August 24 the launch of its latest HexAM materials technology, HexPEKK EM, an electrically conductive, high-performance, PEKK-based thermoplastic carbon fiber composite material for additive manufacturing that is said to offer industry-lead

CAMX 2020, North America’s largest composites and advanced materials industry event, announced on August 24 its live and on-demand virtual conference program, boasting more than 100 technical paper presentations and education sessions. The general session and keynote speaker w

CompoTech (Sušice, Czech Republic) has recently launched a new standard range of lightweight carbon finer (CF) epoxy composite beams in round tubes and square-shaped options and sizes, which can be specified instead of steel. CompoTech says the standard square beams ar

Lanxess AG (Cologne, Germany) announced on Sept. 3 that it is expanding its range of applications to extrusion blow molding, which will include the integration of Tepex continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites into the production process. In a recent feasibility study,

MITO Material Solutions (Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.) a developer of additives that enable polymer manufacturers to enhance product performance, announced on August 31 an oversubscribed $1 million Series Seed funding round led by two Chicago-based firms, Dipalo Ventures and Clea

Photo Credit: TU Munich Chair of Carbon Composites (LCC) and QPoint Composite   The Chair of Carbon Composites (Lehrstuhl für Carbon Composites or LCC) was established in 2009 in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich (TUM, Munich, Germany) with

Photo Credit: EconCore EconCore (Leuven, Belgium), Toray Advanced Composites (Morgan Hill, Calif., U.S.) and Bostik (Milwaukee, Wisc., U.S.), reported on Sept. 7 the company’s collaboration to develop a thermoplastic honeycomb core sandwich panel for use in mass transportation application

The idea of a flying car has long been heralded in popular culture, from the Jetsons cartoon in the early 1960s to the Star Wars landspeeder in the ‘70s, and many other incarnations in more recent science fiction. The promise they all put forward is a future where daily transportation co