Technical Fibre Products (TFP, Kendal, U.K.) has announced the launch of its redesigned website for technical nonwovens www.tfpglobal.com. The site has been restructured to offer improved navigation, more comprehensive product and application information and a clean, modern des

    Laptop A-cover made of Maezio continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites Source | Covestro   A recent Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has found a laptop cover made of Covestro’s (Leverkusen, Germany) Maezio continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic c

  ENGEL’s production cell uses infrared radiation to heat up and form three organic sheets of differing thicknesses, and shapes a high-quality visible surface in the same injection molding process stage. Source | ENGEL   Injection molding machine manufacturer and sys

HUESKER has applied the benefits of spread tow tapes and fabrics to prepregged  thermoplastic organosheets. Its W8SVR Neolaminate is a continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) composite which achieves the same strength and stiffness as existing solutions while being up to 20% lighter.

Aditya Birla Chemicals Thailand Limited today announced the acquisition of Connora Technologies’ Recyclamine technology. Connora Technologies is the pioneer of recyclable epoxy resin technology, based on a novel proprietary polyamine synthesis platform called Recyclamine. Recyclable therm

NOWE tilting-pad bearings. Source | ATSP ATSP Innovations Inc. (Champaign, Ill., U.S.) is exhibiting its full line of Aromatic ThermoSetting coPolyester high-temperature resins designed for coatings, composites and stock shapes, Self-Bond structural adhesives and molding compounds. A

In recent years there has been a sharp increase in demand for lighter components for applications in mobility and transport in response to the need to save weight, and therefore energy and resources. Hybrid components made of steel and locally functionalized with fiber-reinforced plastics comb

  Glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite connector mountings produced for commercial aircraft. Source | Ensinger     Ensinger (Bensalem, Pa., U.S.) offers engineering capabilities for high-performance thermoplastics and thermoplastic composites, ranging from co

Toray Performance Materials carbon fiber insole. Source | TPMC Toray Performance Materials Corp. (TPMC, Camarillo, Calif., U.S.) is featuring its line of high-performance, high-volume, continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (CFRT) composite materials. TPMC (formerly part of TenCate

Fortify (Boston, Ma., U.S.) was founded in 2016, based on composite 3D printing research by Josh Martin (Fortify’s CEO) and Randall Erb, director of the DAPS Lab at Northeastern University in Boston. (Erb is also a co-founder of both Boston Materials and Fortify.) Their goal was to enable fa

Unitized composite gear-driveshaft. Herone uses braided thermoplastic composite prepreg tapes as preforms for a process which consolidates the driveshaft laminate and overmolds functional elements such as gears, producing unitized structures which reduce weight, part count, assembly time and

  DLR’s intriguingly named Flappybot (Flexible autonomous production, placement and assembly robot) prototype is a radical departure from the large and expensive static machines common in the manufacture of large aerospace components. This compact autonomous AFP unit is designed to &l

Source | Covestro   Covestro (Shanghai, China) announces that is further developing its offerings and capabilities in continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) composites in response to market trends and a growing demand from customers. Its Maezio brand of CFRTP composites (

SABIC has teamed with Airborne to develop the Digital Composites Manufacturing Line, which rapidly lays up UD thermoplastic tapes into near-net-shape flat laminates (left), then consolidates them in a contact-heating process (middle), and finally trims and inspects them (right). Airborne is expec

To speed layup and still offer good design flexibility, SABIC and Airborne borrowed an idea from the postal system when developing the ply layup process for thermoplastic composite tapes. Multiple inexpensive trays moving on a conveyor system (shown here) stop briefly under feeder units. Each fee

Founded in 2014 by CEO Fedor Antonov, Anisoprint (Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg) is one of a growing number of technology companies advancing 3D printing of composites with continuous fiber. It prefers, however, to be known as a pioneer in moving additive manufacturing (AM) away from metals to comp

  Source | BASF and Toray Advanced Composites   Toray Advanced Composites (Morgan Hill, Calif., U.S.) and BASF (Wyandotte, Mich., U.S.) have signed a manufacturing and supply agreement focused on the production of continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic tapes for the aut

As composites technology develops, so too should our understanding of what composites can be and what they can offer. This blog originated from a press release that I received from IntegriCo Composites (Sarepta, La., U.S.), which manufactures composite railway crossties and construction m

Sustainable Infrastructure Systems (SIS, Adelaide, Australia) delivers sustainable infrastructure projects for diversified clients around the world. With over 20 years of experience, SIS is also a market leader in delivering sustainable alternatives for applications in oil & gas, mining, aviatio

  “Our goal is to reduce the barriers to composites manufacturing,” says Addcomposites CEO Pravin Luthada. Addco