Thermoplastics

Thermoplastics

The Gund Co. acquires Vanderveer Industrial Plastics

California-based composites and plastics fabricator will advance The Gund Co.’s access to highly engineered thermoplastics in high-tech industries.

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Molds/Tools

Plant tour: Airtech International, Springfield, Tenn., U.S.

Fifty years of supplying materials for composites manufacturing includes custom fabrication and now aims to advance 3D-printed tooling, parts and new resins.

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Thermoplastics

GKN Aerospace opens new Netherlands-based Global Technology Center

The Hoogeveen facility provides an R&D space focused on lightweight thermoplastic composites and advanced electrical cabling systems for next-gen aircraft.

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Consumer

Running shoe insoles get a lift with thermoplastic fiberglass tapes

FlexSpring insoles take advantage of unidirectional, continuous fiberglass and thermoplastics to enable next-level performance for the everyday runner.

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Thermoplastics

Porcher Industries strengthens partnership with Terre de Lin

Technical and commercial cooperation enables Terre de Lin to deliver flax rovings to Porcher for the production of woven Polypreg Flax/TP composite reinforcements.

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Thermoplastics

ATC Manufacturing selected for NASA's HiCAM project

ATC will provide expertise in thermoplastic composites manufacturing to NASA’s Hi-Rate Composite Aircraft Manufacturing (HiCAM) project.

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Thermoplastics

Heat mapping simulation to improve AFP parts

An optical model developed for Coriolis Composites’ SimuReal AFP process simulation software enables verification of energy distributions during AFP to better define heating laws.  

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Sustainability

JEC World 2023 exhibit preview: Xenia Materials

The company is launching Xegreen, a product family of thermoplastic materials made from recycled fibers.

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Thermoplastics

Robotized system makes overmolding mobile, flexible

Anybrid’s ROBIN demonstrates inline/offline functionalization of profiles, 3D-printed panels and bio-based materials for more efficient, sustainable composite parts.

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Trends

EcoRudder project to develop thermoplastic composite aircraft rudder

Airbus, EconCore, Fraunhofer and the Technical University of Denmark will produce a potentially recyclable rudder from thermoplastic honeycomb sandwich composites.

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Wabash
TOPCON24
Compression Molding
Kent Pultrusion
Toray Advanced Composites
CAMX 2024
3D industrial laser projection
Kraussmaffei Metering Systems