Filament Winding
VIDEO: Sustainable pressure vessel systems for heavy-duty vehicles
Automotive and filament winding experts at Voith Composites showcased their Type IV hydrogen storage tanks at JEC 2023. These 350-liter pressure vessels, manufactured with recycled carbon fiber, are primarily designed for heavy-duty vehicles.
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AFPT combines tape winding, placement into one tool
Typically separate processes, the company’s new vessel winding head (VWH), merged with a multiple tape laying head (MTLH) progresses composite pressure vessel development.
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Thermally conductive mandrels enhance filament winding capabilities
CAMX 2023: Acrolab features its Isomandrel technology, which redistributes high thermal energy uniformly over the entire filament winding mandrel surface, providing predictable and consistent energy input into the part and removing the need for oven cure.
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Turnkey composites equipment for future parts manufacturing
CAMX 2023: ETC exhibits solutions like winding equipment and software, automated workcells and integrated robotics, as well as a new line of tape wrappers, at its booth with Zoltek.
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Broadband flash lamp heat source improves material deposition
CAMX 2023: Humm3 technology is a broadband flash lamp heat source for AFP, ATL, filament winding and more composite applications, delivering power previously only available from lasers.
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Modular, upgradeable, automated composites manufacturing equipment
CAMX 2023: Mikrosam is featuring its modular, automated line solutions for towpreg production, filament winding, AFP and ATL to meet cost, flexibility and volume demands.
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Roth introduces multi-spindle gantry filament winder concept
The filament winding expert’s new design is adaptable to individual requirements, is suitable for a variety of component applications and offers additional options for process data acquisition.
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Hexagon Purus Westminster: Experience, growth, new developments in hydrogen storage
Hexagon Purus scales production of Type 4 composite tanks, discusses growth, recyclability, sensors and carbon fiber supply and sustainability.
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TU Munich develops cuboidal conformable tanks using carbon fiber composites for increased hydrogen storage
Flat tank enabling standard platform for BEV and FCEV uses thermoplastic and thermoset composites, overwrapped skeleton design in pursuit of 25% more H2 storage.
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TNL Applied Composites Manufacturing course begins February 2023
Hybrid, seven-session class helps participants learn the tricks of different composites manufacturing technologies from wet layup to pultrusion.
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