GURIT HAS received US$21 million, or $23.5 million including interest, in damage payment from Zoltek Corporation.
27 February, 2009
Quickstep Holdings Ltd has signed a teaming agreement with EDAG Australia Pty Ltd forming an alliance to assist with targeting composite aerospace and defence manufacturing contracts.
27 February, 2009
ITW Plexus has updated and improved its web site with more information about its products and services.
27 February, 2009
US and French researchers are teaming up to study the implementation of fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) composites in civil infrastructure such as bridges.
27 February, 2009
Leading Indian industrial group Mahindra has announced its intention to start manufacturing composite powerboats and catamarans.
27 February, 2009
Lockheed Martin has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) selecting HITCO to manufacture wing skins and other composite components for the F-35 Lightning II programme.
26 February, 2009
SP, the marine business of Gurit based on the Isle of Wight, UK, has appointed MarineWare Pty Ltd as its distributor for SP branded products in New South Wales, Australia.
26 February, 2009
Germany's biggest composites exhibition, COMPOSITES EUROPE, returns to Stuttgart in 2009.
25 February, 2009
The USA has passed Germany to become world number one in wind power installations at the same time as China's total capacity doubles for the fourth year in a row, the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) reports.
25 February, 2009
Imperium Inc, in collaboration with Boeing engineers, has developed a portable ultrasound imaging camera for remote inspection and review of composite structures.
24 February, 2009
Gurit has entered a contract for supplying prepreg materials to a Chinese wind turbine manufacturer.
20 February, 2009
While air and water pollution control companies won’t be reporting record profits in 2009 and 2010, they will balance lost sales in some markets with growth in others, according to the latest forecasts from the McIlvaine Company.
18 February, 2009
Meridian Automotive Systems Inc of Allen Park, Michigan, USA, plans to install sheet moulding compounding (SMC) capabilities in Mexico.
17 February, 2009
Reichhold has introduced a soy oil based resin, Polylite® 31325-00, suitable for sheet/ bulk moulding compound (SMC/BMC) and pultrusion.
16 February, 2009
A polyurethane pultrusion process from Bayer MaterialScience has been used to produce composite military containers.
16 February, 2009
Green Ocean Energy Ltd has developed a wave power machine which attaches to an offshore wind turbine thereby giving combined wind and wave power from one installation.
13 February, 2009
The production of Boeing's composites-intensive B787 has resumed with the joining of the fifth aircraft designated for flight test.
12 February, 2009
Airbus and a group of Chinese industrial partners have signed a contract to establish a joint venture (JV) manufacturing centre in Harbin, China, for aircraft composites.
09 February, 2009
DSM Composite Resins AG, headquartered in Switzerland, and BÜFA GmbH & Co KG, Germany, have announced plans to form two joint ventures.
01 February, 2009
Huntsman and Hexion have reached an agreement to terminate the merger of the two companies, and to end all litigations among Hexion, Apollo Management and Huntsman.
01 February, 2009