New Airbus consortium established at the National Composite Center
Airbus will work through the National Composite Center in Ohio to develop a research and development consortium of Ohio aerospace supplier, incubators and universities to develop next-generation products for use in new Airbus aircraft.

People Briefs
People news from Renegade Materials Corp. and Sandvik Coromant.

News Briefs: Dec. 6, 2011
Norplex-Micarta names Richard Chen project manager; Renegade names Kory Abbitt director of business development; Royal Engineered Composites expands Nebraska facility.

Out-of-autoclave prepregs: Hype or revolution?
Oven-cured, vacuum-bagged prepregs show promise in production primary structures.

Shared composite material property databases
Work at NCAMP is proceeding, with several new materials undergoing testing.

SAMPE 2010 Seattle Showcase
SAMPE’s first-ever foray into Boeing Country wrapped up with the M&P organization’s biggest draw this decade.

"Fuzzy fiber" nanomaterial may revolutionize composite parts
A $3 million Ohio Third Frontier award to the University of Dayton Research Institute will fund the scale-up and production of a new carbon nanomaterial that will allow composites to “multitask.”

NCAMP updates composites material qualification efforts
The National Center for Advanced Materials Performance at the National Institute for Aviation Research has created draft documents for Renegade Materials' MVK-14 Polyimide FreeForm T650 3K qualification.

Resins for the Hot Zone, Part II: BMIs, CEs, benzoxazines and phthalonitriles
Next-generation aerospace programs demand higher temperatures for structural and hot-section components, fostering advances in thermoset resin chemistry.

Resins for the Hot Zone, Part I: Polyimides
 As next-generation aerospace programs demand higher service temperatures in structural and hot section components, a variety of polyimides vie for program approval.

SAMPE 2009 Product Showcase
Showgoers at the SAMPE 2009 Conference and Exhibiton in Baltimore, Md. found many suppliers undeterred by poor economic news. 

Shared composite material property databases
For more than a decade, NASA, FAA, industry and academia have been working toward the goal of creating a centralized composite material property database similar to that for metals. Their efforts, while productive, have not come with the war-like strength that the standardization of metals did. The composites industry is guided by Composite Materials Handbook 17 or CMH-17 (formerly known as MIL-HDBK-17).

SAMPE ’08 technology showcase
Billed as the world’s largest advanced materials trade event, SAMPE’s 2008 Symposium and Exhibition returned to Long Beach.