This episode of CW Talks features two guests from Web Industries (Marlborough, MA, US). Manish Patel, senior application engineer, and Ashley Graeber, director of sales and business development, discuss Web’s role in the composites industry – in particular the precise slitting of carbon fiber prepreg for use in automated fiber and tape placement processes.
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