June 2007 Issue

June

June 2007

Structural, Aesthetic Injection Molded Wood Fiber Components
Cover Story

Structural, Aesthetic Injection Molded Wood Fiber Components

Robert Joyce had extruded enough wood fiber composite sheet products to know that to achieve structural integrity, calendaring was essential. “I learned that pressure was important,” says Joyce, principal of Innovative Plastics and Molding (Lambertville, Mich.). He also knew that one of the unachieved goals of the

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Features

Featured articles from the June 2007 issue of CompositesWorld

Bonding Technology: Thermosetting Structural Adhesives

Bonding Technology: Thermosetting Structural Adhesives

A wealth of epoxies, polyurethanes and acrylics speed assembly and cut manufacturing cost in an ever-wider range of composites applications.

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Deepwater Oil Exploration Fuels Composite Production

Deepwater Oil Exploration Fuels Composite Production

As the price of oil on the world market continues to climb, and as untapped land and shallow offshore oil reserves become a rarity, oil exploration companies are striking out into deepwater, developing reserves beneath the ocean floor a mile or more below the water’s surface. As a result, demand for strong yet

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Engineering Insights: Not Your Father's EV

Engineering Insights: Not Your Father's EV

A stylish composite body makes the world's first all-electric sports car not only lean and green but efficient and fast as well.

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JEC Composites 2007 Product Showcase
Sustainability

JEC Composites 2007 Product Showcase

This year’s Parisian exhibition provides key evidence of the composites industry’s unprecedented breadth and technical sophistication.

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Editorial

Promising, incremental change

There’s been no getting around, lately, the pre-rollout hoopla and excitement surrounding the scheduled debut of the first Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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Tidal Turbines to Mine Marine Megawatts
Wind/Energy

Tidal Turbines to Mine Marine Megawatts

Composites help subsea turbines harvest electrical energy from ocean currents.

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Airtech International Inc.
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