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JEC World 2018 preview: Huntsman Advanced Materials
Huntsman Advanced Materials (Hall 6, M31) is highlighting its portfolio of composite, adhesive and syntactic solutions for enabling lightweighting in a wide range of applications.

Carbon fiber has designs on production wheels
A high-performance CFRP wheel manufacturer for nearly 20 years, Dymag is now part of a broader effort to reduce their cost and migrate them into volume vehicles.

A range of new products from Huntsman
Huntsman Advanced Materials used the 2017 CAMX show to showcase new products from its Advanced Materials and Huntsman Polyurethanes divisions, including advanced composite resin systems and adhesives.

KraussMaffei presents continuous pultrusion system
More than 200 visitors witness presentations and the live debut at the KraussMaffei Competence Day Pultrusion.

Huntsman, Clariant to join in merger of equals
The new company, HuntsmanClariant, will have sales of $13.2 billion, an adjusted EBITDA of $2.3 billion and a combined enterprise value of $20 billion.

JEC World 2017: Show report, part 1
JEC World 2017 was, by almost any measure, the biggest and busiest JEC event yet, and exhibitors came with much to show the world of composites about innovation in materials, equipment and technology.

JEC World 2017 exhibit preview
JEC World will be held March 14-16 in Paris. CW previews some of the products and technologies that will be at the show.

Haydale Graphene Industries, Huntsman enter into joint agreement
The agreement provides Huntsman with the exclusive worldwide rights to market, distribute and sell a range of its resins enhanced with Haydale functionalized graphene, which will include ARALDITE epoxy resins.

Huntsman researching opportunities for graphene-enhanced nanocomposites
The company is working on incorporating graphene into its Araldite epoxy resins.

Two-component, toughened methacrylate adhesive systems
Huntsman Advanced Materials (Basel, Switzerland) has introduced two new two-component, toughened methacrylate adhesives systems, called ARALDITE 2021-1 and ARALDITE 2022-1, designed to replace ARALDITE 2021 and ARALDITE 2022 respectively.

Huntsman, Acciona collaborate on all-composite lighthouse
The first-ever all-composite lighthouse is now installed at the port of Valencia in Spain.

Not your average carbon fiber part
A Swedish industrial designer and artisan, Ragnar Friberg, contacted CW recently about a new project: a one-of-a-kind custom champagne glass and an accompanying storage cabinet that incorporates carbon fiber — along with a number of high-end materials.

Resin system for rail applications
Huntsman Advanced Materials (The Woodlands, Texas) has introduced ARALDITE FST 40004/40005, a new resin system for resin transfer molding (RTM), infusion or pultrusion, designed for use in composites applications in the rail end market.

Methacrylate adhesive system
Huntsman Advanced Materials (The Woodlands, TX, US) has introduced ARALDITE 2021-1 and ARALDITE 2022-1, two-component, toughened, methacrylate adhesive systems that replace ARALDITE 2021 and ARALDITE 2022 respectively.

JEC World 2016: Automotive highlights
On the automotive side, Henkel (Düsseldorf, Germany) emphasized on its JEC stand a glass fiber-reinforced composite leaf spring, based on Henkel’s polyurethane matrix resin Loctite MAX 2, used in the chassis of the new Volvo (Gothenberg, Sweden) XC90, a premium crossover SUV; the platform of this vehicle is expected to be applied to other Volvo cars in the coming years.

Polybenzoxazine on the horizon?
Benzoxazine veteran Dr. Hatsuro Ishida at Case Western Reserve University has developed what he calls the fourth generation of this versatile high-heat, high-strength matrix resin.