Overview
Golf clubs, tennis rackets, hockey sticks and bicycles benefit from the high strength and light weight qualities of composites — particularly carbon fiber composites. Filament winding is the dominant manufacturing process in this market.
Automating swimming pool production
Small producer ramps up productivity with "entry level" robotics.
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All signs point to increasing demand from many market sectors. Will capacity keep pace?
The markets: Sports and recreation (2012) 1/11/2012 Composites TechnologyComposites are found in products used in 7 of the 10 most popular outdoor sports and recreational activities. Figures presented at the 2010 CompositesWorld Carbon Fiber Conference in La Jolla, Calif., indicated that sporting goods will consume 12 million lb (5,480 metric tonnes) of carbon fiber by 2015, worldwide.
Automating swimming pool production 8/1/2011 Composites TechnologySmall producer ramps up productivity with "entry level" robotics.
Designing bicycling’s lightest pro racing frame 1/31/2011 Composites TechnologyCervélo’s Vroomen White Design group combines analysis and manufacturing acumen to create a 675g/1.5 lb composite frame.
Spread-tow fabrics reduce waveboard weight 1/1/2011 Composites TechnologyFanatic (Molln, Austria) recently introduced a new version of its windsurfing waveboard, called FreeWave TeXtreme, made with TeXtreme spread carbon tow fabric from Oxeon AB (Boras, Sweden).
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