Cytec Industries Inc's Engineered Materials business has signed a contract extension with Lockheed Martin for the supply of structural composite and adhesive materials used in the manufacture of the F-35 Lightning II or Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft.
30 April, 2011
Dubai based composite structures supplier Premier Composite Technologies (PCT) is celebrating five years in business.
29 April, 2011
Quickstep Holdings Ltd of Australia has entered into a funding agreement for the issue of convertible notes to the value of US$15 million to US-based La Jolla Cove Investors Inc, along with a share placement to professional investors of A$3.3 million at A$0.32 per share.
29 April, 2011
AOC LLC has announced a 14 May price increase for all products sold in the USA and Canada.
28 April, 2011
J.D. Lincoln Inc is relocating its Costa Mesa, California, prepreg and adhesives operations to a new facility in Huntington Beach, California.
28 April, 2011
Michael Köhler is taking over from Gabi Schwager as Project Manager of the COMPOSITES EUROPE trade show.
27 April, 2011
Viridity Energy, Thomas Jefferson University and Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals will develop and implement a project to maximize wind power through energy storage.
27 April, 2011
The agreement, which could result in contracts to supply 900 MW of turbines, is the first to be signed by Chinese and Spanish companies in the wind energy sector.
27 April, 2011
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc has announced a price increase for its unsaturated polyester resins and vinyl ester resins sold in North America.
27 April, 2011
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
26 April, 2011
Huntsman Advanced Materials is part of Trans-IND, a European project focusing on industrialised manufacturing of transport infrastructures using fibre reinforced (FRP) based materials.
26 April, 2011
DeltaTRAK has published an Application Note entitled Wireless Traceability of Prepreg Product Temperature.
25 April, 2011
Australian advanced materials company Quickstep Holdings Ltd is participating in a European research project investigating the use of nanotechnology in improving the properties of advanced composites used in the transportation industry.
24 April, 2011
MoldTru™ LPT-68000 low-profile tooling resin can reduce the cost and time required to make Class A surface composite tools by up to 70%, claims AOC.
23 April, 2011
E Tech Solutions (Europe) Ltd specialises in the distribution of bio-composite materials.
22 April, 2011
Greenes Group is retrofitting vehicles with compressed natural gas (CNG) tanks manufactured using HiPer-tex™ high performance glass fibre from 3B.
21 April, 2011
Granta Design has updated its GRANTA MI composite data management product and introduced new tools in its CES Selector software.
21 April, 2011
Vestas is delivering a total of 104 MW of wind turbines to an undisclosed customers and wind farm project in Canada.
21 April, 2011
Reichhold has announced a May price increase for all products for the European composites industry.
20 April, 2011
In a recent project, Spanish construction firm ACCIONA Infrastructure worked with Huntsman Advanced Materials to construct a 44 m long, 3.5 m wide carbon composite pedestrian bridge in Madrid.
20 April, 2011
Zyvex Technologies says its Piranha 54' unmanned boat built using carbon nanotube strengthened prepreg has completed sea trials which demonstrate record fuel efficiency.
19 April, 2011
The cost of offshore wind turbines could be cut by a third through the use of new approaches, according to the UK Energy Technologies Institutes (ETI).
19 April, 2011
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc is to sell its North American composites and coating resins business to PCCR USA, a subsidiary of European investment group Investindustrial.
19 April, 2011
The EU must spend €270 billion over the next 40 years to meet its 2050 energy objectives, including an increased focus on energy efficiency across the power chain.
19 April, 2011
Premier Composite Technologies (PCT), builder of the new FARR 400 racing yacht, has confirmed the successful test sailing of the first hull.
19 April, 2011
The European Commission (EC)'s Transport 2050 strategy sets out plans for a competitive transport system that will reduce Europe's dependence on imported oil and cut carbon emissions in transport by 60% by 2050.
18 April, 2011
VN Composites has manufactured composite parts for a Thales Alenia Space satellite using prepregs from Advanced Composites Group Ltd (ACG).
18 April, 2011
3A Composites has signed an agreement with PVC foam producer Tiansheng New Materials to jointly market structural core materials in China, with a focus on the wind energy industry.
18 April, 2011
Barrday Advanced Material Solutions is reorganising into three operating divisions focusing on protective products, composite materials, and renewable energy.
18 April, 2011
New appointments at MFG, AOC and Beagle Aerospace, and winner of the 2011 Brandt Goldsworthy Pultruder of the Year Award announced.
18 April, 2011
GE will supply three units of its 2.5 MW wind turbine to the Zensko wind farm in Krzecin, Choszczno County in north-western Poland.
18 April, 2011
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
18 April, 2011
Owens Corning has introduced SE1550, a new single-end Type 30® roving compatible with most thermoset resin systems and weaving processes.
17 April, 2011
Leatherman Tool Group selected long glass fibre composite from RTP Company for the handle of its new line of folding knives.
16 April, 2011
New energy efficient milling technology developed by International Innovative Technology (IIT) enables the economic conversion of glass reinforced plastic (GRP) waste into batch feedstock suitable for recycling.
15 April, 2011
The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) has formed a new Thermoset Molders Committee to help grow this markets.
15 April, 2011
Chinese company Guang Wei Composites is supplying GL approved prepregs to wind turbine blade producers and is developing products for the marine, public transportation and other markets.
15 April, 2011
AOC has entered into an agreement with BASF-Spain for the exclusive manufacturing of the AOC unsaturated polyester resin product line.
14 April, 2011
The UK Waste Recycling Group (WRG) has received planning permission to erect two wind turbines at its closed Carnaby Landfill site, near Bridlington in East Yorkshire.
14 April, 2011
TMP Inc has developed a new high temperature rapid heating oven and an automated high temperature composite moulding press system.
14 April, 2011
Bombardier has started work at its Mirabel, Québec production facility to accommodate final assembly of the first flight test CSeries aircraft.
13 April, 2011
Ashland has expanded the coverage of its CompositeBuild.com website to include European composites manufacturers serving the building and construction market.
13 April, 2011
Scott Bader Composites Europe is implementing a further price increase for its resins, bonding paste and structural adhesive products.
13 April, 2011
Californian Governor Jerry Brown is expected to sign a bill today requiring a third of the state’s electricity to come from renewable energy by 2020.
12 April, 2011
Owens Corning says its HiLight™ multi-end roving is designed for use in architectural applications such as skylights, cladding, and greenhouses.
12 April, 2011
GRPMS will distribute the Sigmatex carbon fibre reinforcements range in the UK, Eire, France, Scandinavia, Finland and the Baltic states.
12 April, 2011
Belwind NV says it will make parts of its latest offshore wind farm concession site off the Bligh Bank on the Belgian continental shelf available for offshore wind turbine testing if it is successful in the bid for NER3000 funding.
12 April, 2011
Syrgis Performance Initiators AB has announced a price increase for its Andonox®, Norox®, Pulcat® and Benox® organic peroxide product lines sold to the composites market in Europe and the Middle East.
12 April, 2011
A new facility capable of testing wind turbine blades up to 90 m in length will be inaugurated at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) in Germany this June.
11 April, 2011
AGY says its S-3 HDI™ glass fibre enables the production of printed circuit board (PCB) laminates that have a significantly reduced coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) and increased dimensional stability.
11 April, 2011
Polymer Technologies of Singapore has developed Polynanosil, a mixture of homogeneous dispersed elongated silica nanoparticles in epoxy resin.
11 April, 2011
Cray Valley has announced the European launch of its range of EnviroGuard™ unsaturated polyester resins, which feature bio-sourced raw materials content of up to 50%.
11 April, 2011
Despatch Industries is to supply a fully integrated, pilot-scale carbon fibre manufacturing line for the new Australian Carbon Fiber Research Facility (ACFRF).
11 April, 2011
Worldwide wind capacity has reached 197 GW despite a slight decrease in new capacity, according to the World Wind Energy Report 2010 from the World Wind Energy Association (WWEA).
11 April, 2011
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
11 April, 2011
The German Federation of Reinforced Plastics, AVK, is inviting entries for its 2011 Innovation Awards competition.
08 April, 2011
India could install 65.2 GW of wind power by 2010, according to the Indian Wind Energy Outlook 2011 published by the World Institute of Sustainable Energy (WISE), the Indian Wind Turbine Manufacturers Association (IWTMA) and the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC).
08 April, 2011
Over 29 000 visitors attended the JEC Composites Show in Paris last week.
08 April, 2011
AOC LLC has announced a price increase for all resins sold in Europe, effective immediately.
07 April, 2011
The Cannon Group will be showing its latest developments in composites, polyurethane and thermoforming technologies at the China International Wind Energy Exhibition and Conference, CWEE 2011, being held in Shanghai this week.
07 April, 2011
A new Frost & Sullivan report predicts revenues from European composites for public transportation will grow in the coming years.
07 April, 2011
Gamesa is setting up a technology laboratory in Singapore focusing on materials research and development for wind turbines.
07 April, 2011
China has released updated wind power capacity figures showing the country installed 18.9 GW in 2010, bringing the total to 44.7 GW, compared to previous figures estimating the market to have growtn by 16.5 GW.
07 April, 2011
Virtek Vision International, a Gerber Technology business, is introducing LaserKit™ , a laser-guided kitting tool that helps workers assemble accurate kits by indicating the correct sequence of plies to be picked from the cutting table.
07 April, 2011
Syrgis Performance Initiators Inc has announced a price increase for its Norox®, Pulcat®, Benox®, Superox® and Andonox® organic peroxide products sold to the composites market in North America.
06 April, 2011
Quickstep Holdings Ltd says it has manufactured a proof-of-concept painted carbon composite flat panel to Class A automotive quality using its Resin Spray Transmission technology.
06 April, 2011
According to data provided by the Japan Wind Power Association, no wind turbine in Japan was damaged by the recent earthquake and by the tsunami.
06 April, 2011
DSM Composite Resins is increasing the prices of its complete portfolio of unsaturated polyester resins with immediate effect.
06 April, 2011
E.ON plans to invest €2.6 billion in renewable energy in the period 2011-2013, following investments of €1bn in 2010.
06 April, 2011
HydroStrand™ is a chopped strand glass fibre for use in high performance polyphenylene sulphide (PPS) composites employed in automotive and industrial parts that come into direct contact with high temperature fluids.
06 April, 2011
Virtek Vision International, a Gerber Technology business, is introducing the Virtek® LPS-7H laser projector, used to guide assembly lay-up operations.
05 April, 2011
Hampson Aerospace Tooling Solutions highlighting its large structure composite and metal tooling capabilities at JEC Composites Show last week.
05 April, 2011
Advanced Composites Group Inc recently received a 2010 Boeing Performance Excellence Award.
05 April, 2011
AGY’s S-2 Glass® fibres are being used to provide structural and ballistic protection in the new Ocelot Light Protected Patrol Vehicle (LPPV) developed by Force Protection Europe Ltd (FPE) for the UK Ministry of Defence.
05 April, 2011
GE is introducing taller wind turbine towers for its onshore wind turbine product line, bringing hub heights to 130 m.
05 April, 2011
High performance epoxy prepreg SE 84 Nano incorporates 3M™ Matrix Resin and is designed for sailing boat components where compressive strength is a key requirement.
05 April, 2011
The EADS Technology Licensing initiative has a portfolio of composites manufacturing methods and techniques available for licensing.
04 April, 2011
2011 marks the 25th year of Tenax® carbon fibre production in Germany.
04 April, 2011
Gamesa has launched its low-wind wind turbine, G136-4.5 MW Class III, at the Hannover Messe 2011.
04 April, 2011
Wind power contributed over 10 TWh to the UK energy generation in 2010, representing a 7.7% growth over 2009.
04 April, 2011
Sandvik Coromant is introducing a blog designed to share knowledge on the machining of composite components.
04 April, 2011
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
04 April, 2011
Turkish resins producer Poliya has acquired the resins business of Turkish glass fibre producer Cam Elyaf.
04 April, 2011
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during March.
04 April, 2011
Owens Corning is introducing XStrand® H roving, a high-performance glass reinforcement for long-span composite parts manufactured using the pultrusion process.
03 April, 2011
3B has won a 2011 JEC Innovation Award in the Construction Category for the pultruded composite cladding used at the Sheraton Milan Malpensa Airport Hotel, Italy.
02 April, 2011
Ashland Inc has announced that it has closed the sale of its global distribution business Ashland Distribution to Nexeo Solutions LLC, an affiliate of private investment firm TPG Capital.
01 April, 2011
Gurit has signed a contract to acquire Spanish balsa material producer Balseurop for approximately €20 million, completing the expansion of its core materials portfolio for the wind energy and marine markets.
01 April, 2011
Carbon fibre suppliers are looking forward to recovery in the market.
01 April, 2011
Vestas is delivering a total of 150 MW of wind turbines to Energisa S.A. for four wind farms in Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil.
01 April, 2011