Processes

Consumer

KraussMaffei and partners develop sustainable, safe and stylish children’s bike

The Lion Bike is a German-made, injection molded bicycle with 40% recycled carbon fibers with zero scrap and enabling 67% lower CO2 emissions during production.

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VIDEO: Large-Format 3D Printing Solutions for Automotive Applications & More

Large scale 3D printing manufacturer, CEAD takes CW through their various robotics and extrusion systems at JEC World 2023.

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Filament Winding

Turnkey composites equipment for future parts manufacturing

CAMX 2023: ETC exhibits solutions like winding equipment and software, automated workcells and integrated robotics, as well as a new line of tape wrappers, at its booth with Zoltek. 

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Caracol launches US operations with new Texas facility

Local North American headquarters based in Austin, Texas, U.S. will further the additive manufacturing company’s manufacturing and customer support and rapid operations growth. 

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CAMX

Live demonstrations present closed molding advancements

CAMX 2023: The Composites One and Closed Mold Alliance demo zone returns with short but engaging exhibitions featuring vacuum infusion, reusable bag molding, light RTM and other technologies through the show.

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Sustainability

Plant tour: Arris Composites, Berkeley, Calif., U.S.

The creator of Additive Molding is leveraging automation and thermoplastics to provide high-volume, high-quality, sustainable composites manufacturing services.

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Composites 4.0

Modular, robotic cells enable high-rate RTM using any material format

Airborne’s automated ply placement systems at Airbus, GKN Aerospace and Teijin Automotive Technologies aim to maximize flexibility and intelligent automation.

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Pultrusion

Composite profiles bring consistent quality to Ant-X drones

Italian drone solutions provider enlists Exel Composites to deliver pultruded and pull-wound profiles that support prototype drone structure designs. 

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Hybrid process marries continuous, discontinuous composites design

9T Labs and Purdue applied Additive Fusion Technology to engineer a performance- and cost-competitive aircraft bin pin bracket made from compression-molded continuous and discontinuous CFRTP.  

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Infusion

Reusable vacuum bagging, vacuum sealing solution

CAMX 2023: SWORL is highlighting its spray-fabricated reusable vacuum bags (membranes, foils) and a new sealing product for more sustainable, out-of-autoclave composites processing.

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ELFOAM rigid foam products
Kent Pultrusion
U.S. Polychemical Acrastrip
Wabash
Airtech
sustainable carbon fiber composites​
hybrid additives
Lightweight carrier veils for Aerospace
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