A close-up view of Colcore Sonic, showing the relaxed honeycomb core with non-woven performance fabrics. Source | Low & Bonar and EconCore   Advanced fabrics company Low & Bonar (London, U.K.) has signed a license agreement for the use of EconCore’s (Leuv

  Source | AOC Aliancys.   AOC Aliancys (Schaffhausen, Switzerland, and Collierville, Tenn., U.S.​​​) announces that effective March 3, 2020, subsidiary AOC (UK) Ltd (Manningtree, U.K.) will be acquired by resin supplier BÜFA Composite Systems (Rastede, Germany)

Editor’s note: CompositesWorld received several new product and technology announcements ahead of JEC World 2020, which had been scheduled for March 3-5. Although that exhibition was postponed to May, CW is now publishing the announcements we received. This is one of them. Polymers and

The EURECAT Centro Tecnológico de Catalunya (EURECAT Technology Centre Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain) is a private, nonprofit R&D organization with 11 facilities, 650 employees and 50 million euros in annual revenues. “It is the second largest R&D center in Spain,” e

    Integrated steel and mining company PAO Severstal (Moscow, Russia) announced on Jan. 21 that it has invested in digital automation platforms specialist Airborne (The Hague, Netherlands), and that as part of this collaboration, Airborne will work with Severstal&rs

ITHEC 2020, 5th International Conference and Exhibition on Thermoplastic Composites, October 13-14 in Bremen, Germany is accepting abstracts regarding cutting-edge topics in thermoplastic composites by February 15.  The organizers request a one-page abstract from engineers, s

    Covestro (Leverkusen, Germany) announced on Jan. 14 that it has partnered with the Research and Development Center of Guangzhou Automobile Group Co. Ltd. (GAC R&D Center; Guangzhou, China) to develop a lightweight composite seat back for the car manufacturer’s la

  The German Federation of Reinforced Plastics (AVK; Frankfurt, Germany) is inviting submissions for the AVK Innovation Award 2020 in fiber-reinforced plastic composites, covering the following categories: Innovative products/components or applications, Innovative procedures/processe

As we enter the decade of the 2020s, it’s worth reflecting what the 2010s brought to the composites community and how these innovations may or may not shape the future. In the traditional composites market of aerospace, the Boeing 787 entered service in 2011, with the similarly composite

The global electrification of transportation is an uneven evolution, simultaneously enabled and hindered by the myriad forces that govern technology development and affect everything from automobiles and unmanned aircraft to rail transport and marine craft. These enabling/hindering forces include fa

    JEC Group (Paris, France) has announced the finalists for its annual JEC Innovation Awards. After pre-selecting 33 finalists, the jury now has one month to select a winner in each of 11 categories. The winners will be honored at an awards ceremony to take place during JEC

Editor’s note: This content was originally published on NetComposites.com. NetComposites was acquired by CompositesWorld’s parent company, Gardner Business Media, in February 2020. Polyester resins are the most widely used resin systems, particularly in the marine industry. By far the m

      Presidium USA (Dover, Del., U.S.) is introducing to the composites manufacturing market the RevoTherm line of resin systems that offer low viscosity, fast cure and high strength in finished parts. RevoTherm can be processed via closed molding systems (RTM-like

  In this episode of CWTalks, CW editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan interviews Gary Sharpless, a composites industry veteran who is currently serving on the board of directors for Concordia Fibers (Coventry, R.I., U.S.) and Boston Materials Inc. (Bedford, Mass., U.S.). 

Composites have secured a permanent place in commercial airliner airframes because they enable high-strength, lightweight structures that provide lower maintenance costs compared to metal. Current projections for the next generation of both wide- and narrow-body aircraft show continue

    Effective Feb. 1, 2020, the FRIMO Group (Lotte, Germany) and Hennecke Group (Sankt Augustin, Germany) have announced a close partnership in the sector of polyurethane and other reactive plastic applications for the automobile industry. Specifically, the partnership co

    STELIA Aerospace (Toulouse, France) has started a project with Bombardier (Montreal, Canada) through its two Canadian subsidiaries — STELIA Aéronautique Canada (Mirabel, Québec) and STELIA Aerospace North America (Lunenburg, Nova Scotia) 

    Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn., U.S.) is collaborating with NaCa Systems, a Tier 1 supplier of natural fiber composite automotive interior parts, to develop a lightweight carbon fiber prepreg and wood fiber composite sportscar seat back using a rapid press molding process. The

    Global resins and gelcoats supplier AOC Aliancys (Collierville, Tenn., U.S. and Schaffhausen, Switzerland) has announced that beginning March 2, 2020, the company will operate under the name AOC, with a new logo and the tagline “Trusted Solutions.&r

   ​​​​​​   A detailed conference program, including speaker and session descriptions, has been released by the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA; Arlington, Va., U.S.) for its Thermoplastic Composites Conference 2020. The event, which will tak