Cyanate Ester

Wind/Energy

Gurit features core materials, adhesives, resins, molds for wind, aerospace

Gurit is featuring its offerings and expertise for wind energy, composite tooling and lightweighting applications such as aerospace, rail, healthcare and marine. ​​​​​​

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BMI

Tech Table: Adhesives

A table of aerospace structural adhesives includes collected from data provided by suppliers. 

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Aerospace

CAMX 2019 exhibit preview: Specialty Materials

Specialty Materials Inc. is emphasizing its line of boron monofilament and prepreg materials, as well as SCS silicon carbide monofilament.

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Adhesives

New Products: December 2018

CW’s roundup of new products for the composites industry – the past couple of months have seen innovations from Airtech, Cincinnati Inc., Composites Evolution, Evonik, Finepart, Granta, Gurit, Huber, Hyosung, Owens Corning, Park Aerospace, SAERTEX, Siemens, Thought3D and Victrex.

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Aerospace

Park Aerospace's epoxy, cyanate ester resins target advanced radome applications

Park Electromechanical Corp. has introduced RadarWave, a new family of prepreg materials developed for the fabrication of advanced radome systems, principally for aerospace and defense applications.

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Adhesives

CAMX 2018 preview: Compotool

Compotool (Monroe, WA, US; Auckland, New Zealand) is featuring its inorganic tooling board made from specialized formulated calcium silicate materials that reportedly exhibit favorable thermal and process characteristics. 

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Adhesives

CAMX 2018 preview: Renegade Materials/Maverick

High-temperature materials specialists Renegade Materials Corp. and Maverick Corp. (both in Miamisburg, OH, US) are featuring their prepregs and adhesives, powered by Maverick-developed, non-MDA polyimide resins.

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Aerospace

Researchers successfully 3D print carbon fiber

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) researchers claim to be the first to 3D print aerospace-grade carbon fiber.

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BMI

Materials & Processes: Fiber formats for composites

Fibers used to reinforce composites are supplied directly by fiber manufacturers and indirectly by converters in a number of different forms, which vary depending on the application. Here's a guide to what's available.

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Cyanate Ester

First 3D woven composite for NASA thermal protection systems

A NASA-led team develops 3D woven quartz preform, hybrid process to infuse it with cyanate ester resin (0.5% voids) and achieves TRL5 in three years to replace CF/phenolic in the Orion spacecraft’s compression pads.

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Advanced Nonwovens for Aerocomposites - TFP
SikaBlock® M974
Thermwood Corp.
NewStar Adhesives - Nautical Adhesives
re-engineered the ORPC foil and strut
HEATCON Composite Systems
Airtech
industrial CNC routers
Chem Trend