Columns Published: 4/1/2013
Guest columnists Lindsay Brooke, senior editor of the Society of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE) Automotive Engineering International magazine, says Carbon fiber’s decades-long promise in automotive composites might, indeed, be realized.
JEC 2013 at first blushColumns Published: 4/1/2013
CT Editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan risks some immediate reactions to his week in Paris at the JEC Europe 2013 composites trade show.
Optimizing materials selection in automotive and aerospace structuresColumns Published: 12/31/2012
Advanced materials analyst Ross Kozarsky (Lux Research, Boston, Mass.) looks at composites and competing metals in the multimaterial car of the future.
Waiting for $5/lb carbon fiber?Columns Published: 12/31/2012
HPC editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan suggests we say goodbye to $5/lb carbon fiber and expect that composites will earn their way onto autos by saving drivers money.
Automotive SMC: The wheel comes full circleColumns Published: 5/31/2012
James Canner (Sterling Engineering & Mfg., Royal Oak, Mich.) explains why it is, once again, an exciting time to be a part of the automotive composites industry.
Commercial ground transport: A very present opportunityColumns Published: 3/31/2012
Industry consultant Bob Lacovara, principal at Convergent Composites (Perkasie, Pa.) and the former technical director of the American Composites Manufacturers Assn., argues for an automotive sector composites-for-metal conversion harvest in the rip...
Automotive evolution or real revolution?Columns Published: 1/2/2012
HPC's editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan asks, Are efforts by BMW and GM to put carbon composites in cars a harbinger of things to come, as we hope, or flashes in the pan?
Fuel cells (finally) set to power composites growthColumns Published: 11/30/2010
Fuel cells and related technologies will form a sizable new market as they move past the phase of demonstration projects, overcome longstanding technology hurdles and gain momentum in their progress toward affordability.
That "new car" smell: Sniffing out the regulatory trendsColumns Published: 7/30/2010
Environmental consultant Pat Hooper contends that growing concern about auto interior air quality is the elephant in the room that the composites industry can't afford to ignore.
Automotive composites: Let's not sleep through the revolutionColumns Published: 7/20/2009
