Ginger Gardiner

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor

Carbon Fibers

Purdue researchers develop new type of intelligent architected materials

Phase transforming cellular materials (PXCM) exhibit intelligent responses to external forces and stimuli, can dissipate energy to avoid damage and are being developed for transportation, military and other applications that can use composites.

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Carbon Fibers

Hexagon Purus opens new composite H2 cylinder manufacturing hub in Kassel, Germany

Third new manufacturing facility for Hexagon Purus this year and second dedicated to carbon fiber-reinforced composite pressure vessels for H2 storage.

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Aerospace

A new era for ceramic matrix composites

CMC is expanding, with new fiber production in Europe, faster processes and higher temperature materials enabling applications for industry, hypersonics and New Space.

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Digitization

Next-gen composites manufacturing: Combining material, machine and mold cavity data with analytics

Using a sensor, an edge device and machine learning software, sensXPERT sees into processes and is improving quality and cutting scrap, cycle time and energy use for composites customers like ZF and Carbon Revolution.

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Glass Fibers

Bioabsorbable and degradable glass fibers, compostable composite parts

ABM Composite offers sustainable options and up to a 60% reduction in carbon footprint for glass fiber-reinforced composites.

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Sustainability

Sperlu prepolymers enable high-performance epoxy resins with up to 80% bio-based content

Spero Renewables has received funding to further scale its pilot production, enabling tunable epoxy resins for composites with Tg of 65-160°C and storage modulus >2,000 megapascals.

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Defense

Hypersonix receives CMC scramjet manufacturing demonstrator

HTCMC component demonstrates manufacturing of future Spartan scramjet engine required for reusable hypersonic vehicles capable of up to Mach 12 flight. 

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Composites UK launches best practice guide for composites tooling

“Mould Tooling for Fibre-Reinforced Polymer Composites” is latest in Composites UK’s series of good practice guides, available online for free.

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Molds/Tools

Base Materials announces new distributor to support growth in European composites market

B. Beyer GmbH will distribute Base Materials’ range of epoxy and polyurethane tooling board materials and ancillary products.

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Aerospace

Clean Sky 2 OUTCOME project demonstrates PEEK thermoplastic composite wingbox cover

Airbus Defense and Space, FIDAMC and Aernnova demonstrate out-of-autoclave, one-shot process for wingbox cover with integrated stringers for regional aircraft.

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Aerospace

Surcar Airlines selects ZeroAvia hydrogen-electric engines to power flights in the Canary Islands

Surcar plans to retrofit Twin Otter seaplanes with the ZA600 powertrain, which will use compressed gaseous hydrogen stored in composite pressure vessels.

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Aerospace

D-JOINTS project helps engineers protect composite aircraft structures from lightning strikes

Design of innovative composite hybrid joints with electromagnetic compatibility project tested and validated two types of joint technologies plus software tool for faster design.

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