Dow Epoxy will increase prices for its epoxy resins in Europe (including Turkey) from 1 June, or as contracts allow.
30 May, 2009
Advanced Materials, a division of Huntsman Corporation, has unveiled a new leadership team, effective immediately.
29 May, 2009
Composite yacht builder McConaghy Boats is currently working on the Lutra 80, a high performance carbon composite yacht designed for use in the Mediterranean. Its construction will employ SP's composite materials.
29 May, 2009
$2 million is the answer. It's a carbon composite supercar based on the Corvette ZR1.
29 May, 2009
Tencate Advanced Composites USA has developed a cyanate resin prepreg system designed to meet the needs of manufacturers of satellite structures.
28 May, 2009
Celanese Emulsion Polymers, a producer of products for glass fibre sizing, unveils its new website.
28 May, 2009
The future of the Indian composites industry looks prosperous through 2014 and beyond, study says.
28 May, 2009
The developing world will outpace the developed world in purchases of industrial equipment in 2009, as most developed countries experience declines in gross domestic product (GDP) while a number of developing countries show growth.
27 May, 2009
Resin supplier Reichhold is increasing prices on all products for the European composites industry.
27 May, 2009
The SAMPE 2009 conference and exhibition attracted 250 exhibiting companies and 3300 attendees to Baltimore, Maryland, USA, on 18-21 May.
26 May, 2009
Ahlstrom has issued a proposal to start negotiations on temporary layoffs at its glass fibre plant in Karhula, Finland. The Karhula plant produces speciality reinforcements for the composites industry and glass fibre tissue.
26 May, 2009
A Global Aircraft Recycling Symposium will take place at this year’s Aero & Defense Test 09/ITEA Annual Symposium.
26 May, 2009
Siemens is building a €60 million wind turbine rotor blade and nacelle production facility in Lingang New City, Shanghai, China.
26 May, 2009
Aberdeen’s proposed offshore windfarm is likely to be scaled down in terms of numbers of turbines, but still capable of becoming a demonstrator centre, participants at the renewable energy conference and exhibition, All-Energy in Aberdeen, Scotland, was told this week.
22 May, 2009
Scott Bader UK’s new automated dispensing and mixing system can rapidly produce a 25 kg keg of gel-coat in any RAL, BS or colour-matched colour, offering a faster delivery service to customers.
22 May, 2009
Gulfstream Aerospace has completed testing on its first all-composite structural wing assembly.
22 May, 2009
A hybrid vehicle constructed using Swedish company Oxeon’s TeXtreme spread carbon tow fabric took part in Shell’s Eco-marathon competition this year.
21 May, 2009
Spatial Composite Solutions has been commissioned to design, build and install an Airbus A320 Cabin Service Trainer (CST) for UAE airline company Etihad Airways.
21 May, 2009
The Closed Mold Alliance has launched a website aimed at companies looking to convert to closed mould composites manufacturing.
21 May, 2009
The 322 MW Whitelee windfarm outside Glasgow, Scotland, which could be Europe’s largest onshore windfarm, was switched on this week.
21 May, 2009
Zyvex Performance Materials (ZPM) has unveiled a new boat which will be built by Strategic Composites and made with ZPM’s carbon nanotube (CNT) enhanced prepreg, Arovex®.
20 May, 2009
Future Pipe Industries Group (FPI) has obtained the Shock Test Certificate for its glass fibre reinforced epoxy pipe systems in order to become a qualified and approved supplier to the British Royal Navy.
20 May, 2009
Siemens Energy will supply 175 of its SWT-3.6-107 (3.6 MW) wind turbines to the 1 GW London Array offshore windfarm owned by DONG Energy, E.ON and Masdar.
20 May, 2009
The 50 MW Pays de St Seine windfarm in France, developed by RES Group’s French subsidiary EOLE-RES3, has been commissioned.
20 May, 2009
Owens Corning is selling its European composites distribution business to the Gazechim Groupe of France.
20 May, 2009
METYX Composites is organising its Second Biennial Composites Summit in Istanbul, Turkey, on 1-6 June.
19 May, 2009
Composite Integration Ltd has won two categories in the 2009 Cornwall Business Awards.
19 May, 2009
Firehole Technologies Inc, a provider of composite analysis and simulation software, is partnering with unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) specialist AeroMorphology LLC to take Firehole’s solutions to the UAV industry.
19 May, 2009
High Modulus is launching a lightweight, pre-fabricated composite panel designed for use in a range of applications, including boats, bridges, roofing, flooring, holding tanks and flatbeds.
19 May, 2009
Siemens has established European headquarters for wind power sales and project execution in Hamburg, Germany.
18 May, 2009
US demand for reinforced plastics is forecast to grow 2.8% annually to reach 3.6 billion lbs in 2013, giving a market value of US$7.4 billion.
18 May, 2009
Ashland Performance Materials will transfer the European production of its Modar® modified acrylic resins into its wholly-owned manufacturing facility in Sauveterre, France.
15 May, 2009
Ashland Performance Materials has begun production of polyester resins and gel-coats in India and has started customer deliveries in the country and surrounding areas.
15 May, 2009
The US Department of Energy (DoE) has selected 53 projects focusing on wind energy for up to US$8.5 million in DoE funding and has announced US$25m for the Massachusetts Wind Technology Testing Center.
14 May, 2009
Swedish shipyard Kockums has signed a licensing agreement with the Japanese shipyard Universal Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) giving USC the right to use Kockums’ composite sandwich technology in the production of hull structures for mine countermeasure vessels (MCMVs).
14 May, 2009
US glass fibre reinforcements company AGY reports net sales of US$39.6 million for the first quarter of 2009, 31.7% down on the first quarter of 2008.
13 May, 2009
DONG Energy, E.ON and Masdar will invest €2.2 billion in building the first 630 MW phase of the London Array offshore windfarm in the Thames Estuary, UK.
13 May, 2009
The Marine Renewable Energy Promotion Act of 2009 looking at the development of marine and hydrokinetic energy resources has been introduced in the US House of Representatives and the companion legislation has been introduced in the US Senate.
13 May, 2009
Global sales in the small wind (<100kW) market grew 53% to 38.7 MW in 2008 representing 19,000 units and US$156 million.
13 May, 2009
A wind turbine at Tjæreborg Enge, 10 km south of Esbjerg in Denmark, has been fitted with a test blade with advanced measuring equipment to gather data on how to make wind turbines more efficient and less noisy.
12 May, 2009
Resin supplier AOC LLC will increase prices on all products in Europe and Asia from 1 June.
11 May, 2009
AOC LLC will increase prices on all resin and gel-coat products in the USA and Canada from 1 June.
11 May, 2009
Ashland Performance Materials has announced a partnership with Amtech LLC and Endurance Wind Power to produce wind turbine blades at Amtech's North American manufacturing facility in Washington state.
11 May, 2009
Core Molding Technologies, a US manufacturer of composite materials and products, reports a net loss for the first quarter of 2009 of US$660,000, compared with net income of $864,000 in the first quarter of 2008.
08 May, 2009
Quatro Composites will highlight its proprietary methodology designed to optimise the structural performance of carbon fibre composite components at the SAMPE show in Baltimore later this month.
08 May, 2009
Bayer MaterialScience AG has started construction of a facility for the production of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in Chempark Leverkusen, Germany. The plant will have a capacity of 200 tons/year.
07 May, 2009
Standards organisation ASTM is working on proposed new standards that involve fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) composites.
07 May, 2009
Pultruder Exel Composites reports net sales of €18.5 million for the three months 1 January-31 March 2009, 11.4% down on the 2008 first quarter.
07 May, 2009
DSM Composite Resins is increasing prices across its entire product range by 3-5%.
06 May, 2009
Siemens plans to build a wind turbine nacelle production facility in Hutchinson, Kansas, USA, to meet the “strong demand for wind turbine equipment in North and South America in the future.”
06 May, 2009
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) composites technologies paid a key role in the successful launch of United Launch Alliance's Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on 5 May.
06 May, 2009
The European Parliament passed the €5 billion European Union (EU) Economic Recovery Plan on 6 May 2009, which will see investment in energy projects, broadband internet infrastructure and rural development.
06 May, 2009
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner scheduled to fly later this quarter has moved to the flight line. The aircraft's construction is 50% composite materials.
05 May, 2009
Siemens Energy and EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG have signed a contract for the supply of 21 SWT 2.3-93 wind turbines for Germany’s first commercial offshore windfarm, the 48.3 MW Baltic 1.
05 May, 2009
High Modulus, a supplier of composite technology and structural engineering solutions, reports significant revenue growth for the year ending 31 March 2009.
05 May, 2009
A study will look into the potential for wave, tidal stream and tidal range technologies around the English and Welsh coastlines, according to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC).
01 May, 2009
A composite blower housing for the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) industry has earned Premix Inc the 2008 Thermoset Durability Award from the Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE).
01 May, 2009
For the first quarter of 2009, Owens Corning reports consolidated net sales of US$1.1 billion, down 21% from the first quarter of 2008. Sales in its Composites business declined, mainly as a result of the global economic slowdown.
01 May, 2009