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Filament Winding

Hexagon Purus Westminster: Experience, growth, new developments in hydrogen storage

Hexagon Purus scales production of Type 4 composite tanks, discusses growth, recyclability, sensors and carbon fiber supply and sustainability.

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Aerospace

CAELESTIS R&D project explores predictive design, manufacturing for aerospace

Over 42 months, 11 partners will work together to develop an end-to-end digital thread to effectively enable dataflow across the entire aircraft value chain, accelerating the optimization of disruptive aircraft and engine configurations.  

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Trends

Pyromeral mineral composites demonstrate resistance to thermal runaway

PyroKarb, a carbon fiber-reinforced glass-ceramic, has been demonstrated to withstand the high temperatures of open flame during a thermal runaway event in eVTOL batteries with little to no damage.  

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Hexagon Purus opens new U.S. facility to manufacture composite hydrogen tanks

CW attends the opening of Westminster, Maryland, site and shares the company’s history, vision and leading role in H2 storage systems.

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Carbon Fibers

Optimizing a thermoplastic composite helicopter door hinge

9T Labs used Additive Fusion Technology to iterate CFRTP designs, fully exploit continuous fiber printing and outperform stainless steel and black metal designs in failure load and weight.

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Aerospace

High-temperature composite 3D printing facilitates design, manufacture of deployable space structures

Opterus R&D employs an AON3D printer and OOA prepregs to build the tooling, prototypes and end-use versions of its foldable CFRP satellite structures.

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Sustainability

Lingrove plant-based ekoa composite featured in Hyundai Palisade concept vehicle

Carbon-neutral biocomposite enables interactive doorspear with look and feel of wood while protecting trees, enabling transparency and capacitive touch for futuretech.

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Carbon Fibers

Norco to build fuselage, wings and composite components for Skyfly eVTOL aircraft

Skyfly aims to achieve a complete airframe weight of just 220 kilograms, in addition to low-cost, accurate and reliable repeatability of manufacture for series production progression.  

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Thermoplastics

Inside Teijin’s thermoplastic tape expansion

Teijin is qualifying its second thermoplastic tape line in Heinsberg, Germany, that will significantly expand the company’s presence in this material segment.

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Carbon Fibers

Optimizing AFP for complex-cored CFRP fuselage

Automated process cuts emissions, waste and cost for lightweight RACER helicopter side shells.

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Biomaterials

Super Formula, Bcomp announce sustainable fiber composite bodywork

Japan’s premiere single-seater race series confirms hybrid composite parts for SF23 chassis as part of Next 50 plan.  

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Automation

Virtek/Plataine: Integrating laser projection systems with AI-based cloud software

Sean Francoz, Director of Product Management at ViRTEK and Avner Ben-Bassat, President & CEO of Plataine discuss their partnership centered around automated laser projection solutions and AI-based cloud software. Their partnership hopes to improve on-time delivery as well as quality control for aerospace manufacturers.

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