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Optimism at COMPOSITES 2011
The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) says nearly 3000 people attended its COMPOSITES 2011 trade show in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, last week. Visitor numbers may have been down as a result of snow storms across the US in the week, which led to the cancellation of many flight ...
Posted 11 February 2011 by Amanda Jacob
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Composites 2010: cautious optimism
Exhibitors at Composites 2010 are generally upbeat about the prospects for the US composites industry over the next few years. Ted Harris, President of Ashland Performance Materials, is ‘cautiously optimistic’ about 2010, saying that there are some markets starting to recover. China has ...
Posted 11 February 2010 by Amanda Jacob
tags: composites , USA
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Composites 2010: US industry to grow
The first day of the Composites 2010 event in a grey and rainy Las Vegas started with an upbeat presentation on the future of the US composites industry by business analyst Ray MacNeil. The US composites industry has been hit hard since late 2007, he said, but he predicts growth of 3-5% this year, ...
Posted 11 February 2010 by Amanda Jacob
tags: composites , USA
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Composites 2010: updates from the show
The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA)'s Composites 2010 conference and exhibition takes place in Las Vegas next week. The exhibitor listing currently holds 180 companies and there's a whole range of technical papers, educational sessions and networking events on offer. There's al ...
Posted 03 February 2010 by Amanda Jacob
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When I first started working on Reinforced Plastics I was told that, as a general rule of thumb, composites industry growth was a couple of percent higher than GDP. So what is the economy going to look like in 2010? In its economic predictions for 2010, forecasting company IHS Global Insight predic ...
Posted 28 January 2010 by Amanda Jacob
tags: economy , global , GDP , USA , Europe , Asia , composites
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