SABIC (Pittsfield, Mass., U.S., 6/P12) is highlighting the progress of its Digital Composites Manufacturing line, an automated digital systems for rapid, large-scale laminate manufacturing, via a 360-degree virtual reality experience. Through its Innovations of Scale theme, the company is

Technical Fibre Products (TFP, Burneside, U.K., 5/P32) is launching its range of next-generation surfacing and adhesive support veils, designed to offer superior flexibility and surface smoothness, and to supplement the company’s current Optiveil materials. The next-genera

Web Industries Inc.’s Aerospace division (Marlborough, Mass., U.S., 5/L6) is featuring its capabilities in the formatting of flexible thermoplastic composite materials for next-generation aerospace applications. “Thermoplastic composites are gaining increased acceptance as key mate

Teijin Ltd. (Tokyo, Japan, 6/G28) is introducing a new prepreg composed of unidirectional carbon fiber tape with a bismaleimide (BMI) matrix resin, targeted toward aerospace engine components.This carbon fiber/BMI prepreg offers a Tg of 280°C and compression after i

Scott Bader is launching two products at JEC World 2019: the Crestafire intumescent FST system and Crestapol 1270, a new premium urethane acrylate resin for sheet molding compound (SMC) and bulk molding compound (BMC). From the Scott Bader booth, M27 in Hall 6, it will also be introdu

Sicomin (Châteauneuf les Martigues, France) is launching MaxCore, a new sandwich core designed for infusion processes, at JEC World 2019.  Fiber reinforcements are inserted in multiple orientations and are responsible for 100% of the mechanical properties of the core, Sicomin says.

Sika Advanced Resins (Baar, Switzerland) is unveiling Ullit’s (Diors, France) composite tank for trucks that run on compressed natural gas (CNG). The tank, designed with a tailor-made epoxy system designed by Sika Advanced Resins, is said to help reduce pollution

Victrex (Thornton Cleveleys, U.K., 5/S29) and Coriolis Composites (Queven, France, 6/A32) are announcing cooperative work they did with thermoplastic unidirectional tape (TP UDT) prepreg lay-up and consolidation to improve the manufacturing efficiency of composite parts. The companies

Many new technologies have been developed recently to reduce the cycle time and cost of composites, with the aim of increasing composites’ use in automotive, industrial and consumer goods applications. One of the most promising areas of development is in automated production lines that cut and

Fraunhofer Institutes for Production Technology (IPT, Aachen, Germany, 5/D17) is emphasizing work it did with Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology (ILT, Aachen) on the EU research project ComMUnion, in collaboration with 14 partners from industry, to develop industrial processes

Recyclability has been a long-promised benefit of using thermoplastic composites (TPCs). But it has yet to be used commercially on a large scale. Materials supplier TenCate Advanced Composites and the ThermoPlastic composites Research Center (TPRC) partnered with Tier 1 manufacturer GKN Fokker to de

Visit the news pages of the Airborne Oil & Gas (AOG, IJmuiden, Netherlands) and Magma Global Ltd. (Portsmouth, U.K.) websites and you’ll come away with the impression that 2018 was a watershed year for these two leading manufacturers of thermoplastic composite pipe (TCP) for deep-sea appli

Victrex (Cleveleys, Lancashire, U.K.) has announced a multimillion euro investment in Bond High Performance 3D Technology (Enschede, Netherlands), a partnership intended to provide customers with an accelerated route to market for 3D-printed PAEK parts. Bond has developed a differentiate

Hexcel (Stamford, Conn., U.S.) recently announced two new collaborations: a partnership with Lavoisier Composites for upcycling composite by-products from the aerospace industry, and a new research and development lab opening in partnership with Arkema (King of Prussia, Penn., U.S.).

At JEC 2019, Solvay (Alpharetta, Ga., U.S.) displayed a jointly developed thermoplastic automotive component with Magneti Marelli (Lombardy, Italy), and launched a next-generation release film for the wind industry. The automotive component, a steering knuckle prototype designed and

Composites One (Arlington Heights, Ill., U.S.) and the Closed Mold Alliance will host a two-day workshop called “the Evolution of Composites,” in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IACMI) (Knoxville, Tenn. U.S.) March 20-21 at&

Mitsui Chemicals Inc. (Tokyo, Japan) has announced that it is building a new production facility for long glass fiber-reinforced polypropylene (LGFPP) at Chinese manufacturing subsidiary Mitsui Advanced Composites Co Ltd. (Zhongshan). This will become Mitsui Chemicals’ thi

In the EU project Bio4self, an international consortium with the participation of the Fraunhofer ICT (Pfinztal, Germany) and the Institute of Textile Technology of the RWTH Aachen, has developed a self-reinforced composite of polyactide (PLA). PLA materials are based on lactic acids, which

Polyscope Polymers B.V. (Geleen, Netherlands) was awarded the JEC Innovation Award in the Automotive Application category. The company’s XIRAN SGH30EB glass-filled thermoplastic composite was specified by Webasto France and the Groupe Renault (Boulogne-Billancourt, France) for the roller-blind

At JEC World 2019, Hexion Inc. (Columbus, Ohio, U.S.) launched a two-component epoxy manufacturing solution based on its EPIKOTE system 600-2 resin and curing agent. The goal of the solution, the company says, is to relieve production constraints for aerospace composites while maintaining the h