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Proterra composite body bus makes debut - 10/7/2008

The composite bus, made by Proterra, features a hybrid-electric powertrain developed by UQM Technologies. It will debut at the American Public Transportation Association expo in San Diego, Calif., this week.

Conference keynote to focus on fiber in ballistics - 10/7/2008

Tucker Norton, global technology manager at DuPont Advanced Fiber Systems, will be the keynote speaker at the High Performance Fibers Conference, Oct. 28-29 at the Charleston Marriott Hotel in Charleston, S.C.

Airbus, MSC.Software partner to provide composite training - 10/7/2008

MSC.Software and Airbus have completed the first phase of the Trans-National Composites Training (TCT) Program, organized to educate a new generation of composites designers.

Composite siding introduced to market - 10/7/2008

Microposite, which announced development of a composite siding for residential applications in February, has introduced the product to the market.

SPE Automotive Composites Conference Highlights - 10/6/2008

 Automotive OEM's, Tier One molders, and suppliers of materials, machines and tooling assembled Sept. 16-18 for the 8th annual Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition, presented jointly by the Automotive and Composites divisions of the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE). Held at Michigan State University's (MSU) Management Education Center (Troy, Mich.

New Thermoplastic Composite Material Promises Increased Lightweighting - 10/6/2008

 As part of an ongoing search for new ways to reduce vehicle weight, SABIC Innovative Plastics (Pittsfield, Mass. ) and Azdel Inc. (Forest, Va.

JETCAM International - 10/6/2008

 JETCAM International (Principality of Monaco) announced Sept. 12 a free User Defined Feature (UDF) plug-in for download from the JETCAM Web site that will assist in automating the export of two-dimensional part and manufacturing information for processing within JETCAM's suite of applications for sheet goods customers. For composite materials users, JETCAM Orders Controller can now automatically process composite ply XML data passed from Dassault CATIA v5, providing full geometry and part programming information, which is then ready for processing through JETCAM Expert.

U.K. Consortium to Investigate High-Performance Natural Fiber Composites - 10/6/2008

 The first generation of high performance composite materials made from completely bio-degradable long, aligned natural fiber-reinforced plastics has been produced by a U. K. -based consortium called COMBINE.

Spirit opens composites repair facility in Scotland - 10/6/2008

Spirit AeroSystems' new composites repair facility in Prestwick, Scotland, will focus primarily on 737NG and 777 aircraft.

AGY announces new partners in Asia-Pacific region - 10/6/2008

AGY has announced a network of new partners to help it sell and service continuous filament mat products in the Asia-Pacific region.

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