Ceramic matrix composites: Hot engine solution
Disruptive designs for composites operation in 1093°C zones.

American Industrial Partners buys Gerber Technology
The private equity firm bought Gerber from Vector Capital.

CAMX 2016 preview: Virtek/Gerber Technology
Cutting table specialist Gerber Technology (Tolland, CT, US) is exhibiting with subsidiary and laser projection specialist Virtek Vision International Inc. (Waterloo, ON, Canada)

Carbures, el Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain
On a rapid and audacious growth trajectory, this Tier 2 supplier based on the Iberian Peninsula opens the doors of three foundational facilities near Spain’s aerospace epicenter.

GE Aviation, Batesville, MS, US
With a supply chain busy making commercial jet engines like the GE90, GEnx, LEAP and GE9X, GE Aviation has invested heavily in its composites capabilities in Batesville.

Gerber to provide templating system to GE Aviation for Airbus project
A key component of this project is the Gerber’s Virtek Laser Templating System for composites.

Laser projection: Envisioning more than templates
Advanced systems offer ply-placement verification, aids to faster assembly and manufacturing process and quality control.

Onboard protection: Tough battery enclosure
Unique composite laminate provides crash protection for electric vehicle’s battery, occupants and first responders.

Automated flatbed cutters: Reliability ensures productivity
Flatbed cutting system suppliers discuss a key concern, from their customers' point of view: machine reliability.

Automated cutting accelerates
Software/hardware advances and peripheral equipment make flatbed cutters essential to automated production scenarios.

Biz Brief: HPC March 2014
LIFT installs GERBERcutter and Virtek vision system.

LIFT Center nearly complete, looking for manufacturers
The Long Island Forum for Technology's (LIFT) Composite Prototyping Center is accepting Long Island manufacturers interested in learning more about composite materials and methods.

Gerber and Virtek Vision supply equipment to composites center
The Long Island Forum for Technology's (LIFT) new Composite Prototyping Center (CPC) will have a GERBERcutter and Virtek LaserEdge system, for helping manufacturers and for training.

SAMPE Tech 2013: Highlights from Wichita
CompositesWorld reports on some of the technologies, products and news from SAMPE Tech 2013, Oct. 21-24 in Wichita, Kan., USA.

HPC's 20th Anniversary: Thanks to HPC’s charter advertisers
Every trade publication lives and dies by its advertisers, and those who had the gumption to ante up for HPC’s premier issue are listed here and those who are still with us (see page numbers below) are gratefully recognized with the HPC 20th Anniversary Medallion.

Cutting and laser layup technology supports tier fabricator in Boeing project
Prototype production for The Boeing Co.’s (Chicago. Ill.) Enhanced Medium Altitude Reconnaissance and Surveillance System (EMARSS) aircraft gets a boost from cutting and templating hardware/software supplied by Gerber Technology (Tolland, Conn.)

Integrated laser projector/flatbed cutter
At WINDPOWER 2012, Gerber Technology announced that it has integrated its computer-controlled flatbed cutting systems and CAD nesting software with subsidiary Virtek Vision International’s laser projection technology to automate nesting, cutting and layup of wind blade materials.

Delastek optimizations reduce composite material costs 5 percent
Canada-based composites manufacturer Delastek invested in a laser projection system and a computer-controlled composite fabric cutting system to help streamline production and minimize material use.