Videos
VIDEO: Braided TPC Tube System Takes on Cryogenic Fuel Lines
Ductility at cryogenic extremes, not to mention the ability to bend to the complexities required for aerospace, led herone to pursue thermoplastic composites for LH2 fuel lines — with promising results. The company speaks more on the subject in this CW article and Thermoforged video.
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VIDEO: Polestar 5 Flax Fiber Seatbacks Put Circularity By Design Into Production
Polestar's collaboration with Bcomp on the Polestar 5 interior, highlighted through CW content and this snapshot video, demonstrates how design for end-of-life recyclability and lightweighting can be achieved in a single production part.
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SHD Mooresville Facility to Quadruple Cambium U.S. Composites Manufacturing
SHD’s domestic composites operations expand to a 60,000-square-foot, AS9100-certified prepreg facility in North Carolina focused around U.S. scale-up trajectory and fast lead times.
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80% Bio-Based Epoxy Moves Ski Manufacturing Toward Zero-Impact Goals
Sicomin’s GreenPoxy80 increases bio-based material by 60% over previous epoxies, developed for use in a ZAG touring ski that aims to push the use of sustainable materials to new levels.
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REWIND Project Demonstrates Potential of EOL Wind Blades as Industrial Resources
As European wind sector’s voluntary landfill ban goes live, pan-European Project demonstrates composite material recovery and predictive model for reclaimed material behavior with 90% accuracy.
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Cygnet Texkimp Increases Carbon Fiber Production Efficiency Via 500-Kilogram VHD Creel
Large-scale PAN precursor unwinding creel enhances line efficiency through longer continuous run cycles, higher tow count processing potential.
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VIDEO: A Decade of the MFFD
CW reporting on the MFFD — the largest welded thermoplastic composite aircraft structure ever built — is collected here, alongside new video coverage from Thermoforged.
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The Future of CFRP Pressure Vessels: Larger Sizes, Lightweighting, Data Centers and Space
Hexagon Composites discusses the largest Titan 510 Mobile Pipeline, use of thermoplastic composites for lightweighting modules, towpreg, Chinese carbon fiber and growth from data centers and space.
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VIDEO: Spiral TPC Finds Solutions to Scale Up TPC Recycling
Netherlands-based Spiral RTC details its journey from its early beginnings to its latest endeavors building end-of-life TPC recycling infrastructure in this snapshot video by Thermoforged.
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Nova Carbon, CMP Composites partner for closed-loop carbon fiber recycling
SNAPSHOT: The French startup will collect and recycle production offcuts from the regional composites manufacturer on a recurring basis, with recycled fiber already used in small offshore wind turbine blades.
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REGENT completes Seaglider Manufacturing Facility dedicated to electric maritime craft
The 255,000-square-foot facility in North Kingstown will serve as the global production hub for REGENT’s composite Seaglider vessels, supporting a $10 billion order book and $15 million in defense contracts.
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VIDEO: KAI scales thermoplastic composites for next-gen aircraft
A snapshot video by ThermoForged and accompanying content published by CW platform details Korea Aerospace Industries’ TPC journey as a high-rate Tier 1 single-aisle, eVTOL airframe supplier.
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