October 2010 Issue
October 2010
Features
Featured articles from the October 2010 issue of CompositesWorld
Composites tap tide energy
Composites-enabled tidal stream energy projects lead the way as new forms of hydrokinetic power generation move toward commercialization.
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IBEX 2010 Highlights
The world’s largest watercraft construction exhibition navigates new waters to its first inland rendezvous.
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Improved intumescent: Topcoat allows better laminate performance
Applied to a cured laminate surface, a new intumescent topcoat provides Wright Composites (Galgorm, Ballymena, Northern Ireland) a passive fire barrier that permits the use of a laminating resin with less fire-resistant filler, making possible a tougher part.
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Marine composites: A new dawn?
Boatbuilders fared worse than automakers during the recent recessionary storm. As the dark clouds dispel, there is some light on the horizon.
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Politics and subsidies
Composite Technology's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan considers the implications for the U.S. composites industry of political calls to end the Production Tax Credit and Investment Tax Credit for wind energy and other sustainable forms of energy production.
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SPE's ACCE 2010 Highlights
The Society of Plastics Engineers’ Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition completed its first decade with a stellar slate of keynotes and papers.
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