Welding

Defense 28 Mar 2022

Plant tour: Qarbon Aerospace, Milledgeville, Ga. and Red Oak, Texas

Veteran aerostructures Tier 1 transforms into 21st century leader in thermoplastic composites and multiple new markets.

Aerospace 22 Mar 2022

Hydrostatic membrane consolidation: Skin-stringer panels in 60 minutes

Airbus and Siempelkamp demonstrate press process as alternative to thermoplastic welding, aimed to enable rate 100 aircraft and future mobility manufacturing.

Welding 4 Jan 2022

Patent-pending welder rapidly melts thermoplastics

The FlatJet Welder, designed for thermoplastic components of all sizes, blasts a thin, directed jet of uniform, high-temperature air/gas for a fast, full-surface melt.

Sustainability 2 Dec 2021

FACC emphasizes fast-cure prepregs, thermoplastics, bio-based composites for next-gen aerostructure sustainability

The Tier One’s Sept. 2021 BEyond magazine highlights its investments in new factories, materials and technologies for the next generation of cost-effective, sustainable composites for aviation.

Aerospace 26 Oct 2021

SAM|XL develops closed-loop manufacturing for composites

Collaborative R&D center at TU Delft develops sensor- and robot-based automation for Composites 4.0 manufacturing, including STUNNING project for welded assembly of a thermoplastic composite fuselage demonstrator.

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Sustainability 1 Oct 2021

RECONTRAS project validates use of microwaves and laser welding to obtain recyclable composites

Reseachers obtained a reduction in costs and energy consumption through the manufacture of three composite prototypes and confirm the feasibility of recycling and processing the resulting material.