CompositesWorld News
Composites industry invited to AZL Open Day in April
On April 10, 2024, AZL and non-AZL members have a chance to gain insight into the RWTH Aachen Campus’ R&D landscape and know-how in lightweighting and composite technologies.
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Hartzell Propeller purchases WhirlWind Propellers
WhirlWind’s carbon fiber propeller blade expertise expands Hartzell’s product portfolio into light sport aircraft.
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National Composites expands into thermoplastics with Northern Plastics
Second acquisition brings thermoforming and vacuum forming capabilities to National Composites’ metal and composites services.
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IMDEA introduces digital twin for real-time analysis of composite materials production
Newly designed digital twin by IMDEA and Technical University of Madrid researchers enables manufacturers to see inside composite materials as they are being produced, facilitating early detection of faults.
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Siddus Space launches composites-intensive LizzieSat satellite
LizzieSat offers space-based data collection and analysis for SpaceX’s Transporter-10 Rideshare mission.
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Swinburne-CSIRO Testlab grows composites competency via industrial-scale 3D printing
Industry 4.0 facility is integrating an additive manufacturing approach to its holistic processes to optimize composite component production rates, quality and cost.
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Joby acquires facility in Ohio, scales up eVTOL aircraft manufacture
Existing facility at Dayton International Airport will enable 500 eVTOLs per year, serving as Joby’s initial manufacturing footprint in the region.
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Stratolaunch celebrates first powered flight of TA-1 test vehicle
Reusable hypersonic test aircraft met primary flight objectives and approached Mach 5 speed, gathering data for concurrent TA-2 and TA-3 test beds.
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ECOHYDRO project to enable recyclable composites for hydrogen storage
With the involvement of two schools from the Institut Mines-Télécom, the 4-year project aims to improve the intrinsic properties of a composite material based on Elium via four concrete demonstrators.
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Rock West delivers high-precision composite support tube for particle detection
Large carbon fiber and honeycomb core component, known as the barrel timing layer (BLT) tracker support tube, was delivered to Purdue as part of an upgrade to CERN’s general-purpose proton-proton collision detector for space research.
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