Composites One President and COO Leon Garoufalis announced the company’s acquisition of Polynt Composites Distribution to employees and customers on Dec. 2, 2019.   North American composites raw materials supplier and services provider Composites One (Arlington Hei

  From left to right: Isabelle Lindemann, key account manager at Safran, Solvay Specialty Polymers global business unit; Thierry Haud, VP of Safran Purchasing, Safran; Sonia Bouquet, Composite Materials Purchasing Department, Safran; Dr. Alexander Vogel, head of Compounding at&nbs

  Toray’s R&D Innovation Center of the Future. Source | Toray   Toray Industries Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) held an opening ceremony on Dec. 11 for its R&D Innovation Center for the Future on the premises of its Shiga, Japan plant. The new facility will sp

Source | Magma Global   Magma Global (Portsmouth, U.K.) announced on Dec. 17 that it has been selected by C-Innovation (Mandeville, La., U.S.) ​to supply m-pipe thermoplastic composite subsea jumpers for flowline intervention in the Gulf of Mexico. The 4-inch diameter, 10 ksi m-

A 3D-printed tool by Fortify that is used to mold an automotive part. Source | Henkel     In a new partnership, Henkel (Düsseldorf, Germany) and Fortify (Boston, Mass., U.S.) are leveraging Fortify’s Digital Composite Manufacturing (DCM) 3D printing technol

  IACMI members at CAMX 2019.  Source | IACMI Since its launch in 2015, the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI — The Composites Institute, Knoxville, Tenn., U.S.) has built a network of industry, academic institutions, and federal, state and

  Source | Bitrez and EPSRC   Manufacturer of specialist polymers and chemicals Bitrez Ltd. (Standish, U.K.) has become an industrial partner of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub (CIMComp). Led by the Univers

  Adhesives, resins and gel coats manufacturer Scott Bader (Northamptonshire, U.K.) has signed an exclusive agreement for European distribution of United Initiators (Pullach, German​​​​​​​y) BAYCAT organic peroxides for the composites market. Scott Bader says the partnershi

Source | EconCore   EconCore (Leuven, Belgium), which is known for continuous production of thermoplastic honeycomb sandwich materials, has signed a license agreement with Kotobukiya Fronte, a Japanese Tier 1 supplier of car interior components, to install EconCore’s production

Boston Materials hires new technical sales manager Boston Materials Inc. (Bedford, Mass., U.S.) has announced the hire of Karl Hawes as Technical Sales Manager. Hawes joins the company with more than fifteen years of composites industry experience in general management, sales, manufacturing an

    Materials company Novoset LLC (Peapack, New Jersey, U.S.) announced on Dec. 26 that it has signed a licensing agreement with Shin-Etsu Chemical Co. Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan) for the manufacturing and marketing of modified hydrocarbon resins based on Novoset’s intellectu

Foiling catamarans, building facades and more. Located less than an hour’s drive from Amsterdam, Holland Composites pursues a wide variety of highly technical projects in its 4,500-m2 facility. Source, all images | Holland Composites Located in a 4,500-square-meter building, less tha

  Back side of Spirit AeroSystems’ ASTRA fuselage panel. Source | CW     The top news stories from 2019 spanned from next-generation aerocomposites, to thermoplastics, to 3D printing, to the latest developments in shipbuilding and offshore wind energy. Here ar

Continuous fiber-reinforced print technology developed by the University of South Carolina’s McNair Center and partners is designed to produce highly complex and unique structures. From CW’s #1 story of 2019, on continuous-fiber 3D printing Source | McNair Center Happy

  Meeting agricultural demand. A growing composites application in the agricultural equipment market is boom arms for self-propelled spraying equipment, used to apply liquid chemicals to crops. Source | Deere & Co.  

One-piece, one-cure. ESE’s E2 line of composite wheels uses tailored fiber placement (TFP) and a proprietary compression resin transfer molding (RTM) style process to produce a one-piece all carbon fiber wheel.   Source | ESE Carbon Co. Carbon fiber wheels offer a range of benef

  TenCate thermoplastic composite spar, JEC World 2018. TenCate Advanced Composites was acquired by Toray in 2018.     What composites industry news will shape the 2020s? As CW gears up for the new year and new decade, we have also collected our Top 10 most-viewed news st

Smooth finish. NIO selected Covestro’s Maezio for its wheelblade based on unidirectional carbon fiber’s aesthetics and aerodynamics.  Source | Covestro   Spoke-like blade inserts for automotive wheels, also known as wheelblades, have become a popular tool for design enginee

Today’s aircraft structures consist of many different materials. For example, the fuselage and wing structure of the Airbus A350XWB is constructed mainly of composites with some metal parts. Here, parts are joined, per classical hybrid design, with bolts and rivets. This design leads to high

  Hexcel Corp. (Stamford, Conn., U.S.), the world’s second largest manufacturer of carbon fiber and a major supplier of intermediate composite materials, announced on Jan. 12 that it is merging with aerospace and industrial equipment OEM Woodward Inc. (Fort Collins, Colo., U.S.)