Autoclave

Aerospace

Kordsa partners with University of Sheffield research center

Kordsa, the University of Sheffield and Sabancı University will collaborate on advanced composites research for aerospace and automotive applications.

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Weaving

Episode 29: John McQuilliam, Prodrive Composites

Prodrive Composite’s John McQuilliam discusses the company’s primary to tertiary (P2T) carbon fiber composite recycling process.

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Autoclave

MS-21 completes third flight test for EASA certification

Single-aisle jetliner with first out of autoclave composite wing steps closer to certification.

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Thermoplastics

3D printing continuous fiber on the desktop

Additive manufacturing technology company expands offerings to include high-performance composites.

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Work In Progress

Modular, mobile, multiple robotics poised to change the AFP/ATL paradigm

The German Aerospace Center (DLR) is working on two multi-robot automated fiber and tape placement technologies that could change the paradigm in large-part aerocomposites manufacturing.

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Sustainability

Composites 4.0: digital assistants, edge computing and the future of smart factories

Plataine reviews developments and discusses where composites manufacturing is headed.

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Weaving

The Kordsa strategy

Turkey-based Kordsa has a long history supplying materials to the global tire market. It now has its sights set on reinforcement fabrics, prepregs and core materials for aerospace, automotive and industrial structures.

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Curing

First Toray LM-PAEK laminate for Clean Sky MECATESTERS project

KVE Composites Group and Rescoll cooperate in GKN Fokker-led project to develop micromechanical characterization of thermoplastic co-consolidated joints for aircraft fuselages

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Sustainability

Into the Hyperloop

The role of composites in the fifth mode of transport.

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Has composites innovation reached "the stall?"

Columnist Dale Brosius reflects that composites innovation, like meat partway through the smoking process, has reached a temporary stalling point. 

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