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U.K. Opens COMPASS Facility, Supercharging Aerospace Composites Manufacturing Efforts
The AMRC’s £54 million COMPASS offers an open-access R&D infrastructure with Industry 4.0 digital tools, robotic preforming and a 2,400-tonne RTM press helping manufacturers and SMEs compete in global aerospace supply chains and de-risk, accelerate high-rate production.
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Climate Impulse Project Receives Official Patronage from European Commission
The strategic endorsement reflects the EU’s firm commitment and alignment with the project’s zero-emission aviation ambitions, industrial competitiveness and strategic autonomy.
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Beta, Multistate Collaboration Completes First eIPP Operational Flights
Beta Technologies’ CTOL Integration Pilot Program flight across a PA-VA-MD corridor is the start of electric aviation and future medical logistics advancement.
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Eurocode 11 for Composites Construction, Civil Engineering Design is Set for 2028 Publication
Years of close cooperation between academic, standardization bodies and industry has led to this newest CEN standard design, providing a harmonized framework and wider acceptance of composites.
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Production of European Sikorsky Firehawk Begins in Poland
PZL Mielec starts manufacturing two S-70 Firehawk helicopters — a variant of the well-known Black Hawk series — for the Czech Republic to bolster its operational fleet and wildfire and emergency response capacity.
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Syensqo Composite Materials to Power MV-75 Cheyenne
Composites, adhesive and specialty polymers will contribute to the U.S. Army’s vertical lift aircraft, enhancing speed, range and survivability.
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Saint-Gobain to Acquire EGFA’s Lexington Glass Fiber Operations
Nippon Electric Glass subsidiary’s North Carolina glass fiber plant will strengthen Saint-Gobain’s supply chain for CertainTeed roofing and gypsum products.
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Lamilux Expands GFRP Applications for Vehicles, Hygienic Cladding
The composite company's work spans commercial vehicle and caravan materials, a temperature-controlled transport demonstrator and hygienic wall cladding installed at an Austrian bakery.
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ACM CRC to Develop Mass-Producible, High-Temp Composite Sucker Rod Guide Design for Oil and Gas
A UQ and ACM CRC collaboration is engineering sucker rod guides that withstand extreme heat, cut labor by 50% and open new domestic and global markets for Oilfield Piping Systems.
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Kingboard, Jushi Ramp Up Glass Fiber Output as AI Reshapes PCB Demand
Rising consumption of low dielectric constant glass fiber cloth for AI server substrates is pushing East Asian producers to expand electronic-grade capacity faster than planned.
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