The call for papers for this year's Society of Plastics Engineers (SPE) Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE) has been announced.
31 January, 2012
Siemens Energy has secured its first wind turbine orders in Africa, with a total of 100 MW to Nareva Holding for the Haouma and Foum El Oued Wind Power Plants in Morocco.
31 January, 2012
The German Federation of Reinforced Plastics, AVK, is inviting submissions for its annual awards in the area of fibre reinforced plastics (FRP).
31 January, 2012
Gamesa is entering the electric vehicle and energy efficiency market, taking a stake in N2S, a Spanish start-up specialising in intelligent energy services management.
31 January, 2012
SP-High Modulus, the marine business of Gurit, is exhibiting at the Seatec boat technology exhibition for the first time.
31 January, 2012
DTC, Instron, Pinette Emidecau Industries and Italmatic have joined the ThermoPlastic Composites Research Centre (TPRC) in The Netherlands.
30 January, 2012
Composites design specialist Caterham Composites and software provider Altair Engineering GmbH have signed a partnership to help both companies streamline the critical exchange between design and simulation data.
30 January, 2012
North American distributor Composites One, the Closed Mold Alliance and over 15 industry partners, will host demonstrations of closed mould technology during the COMPOSITES 2012 trade show in Las Vegas next month.
30 January, 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
30 January, 2012
The fourth quarter of 2011 saw a drop in the number of new global energy and renewable energy development proposals compared to both the same period in 2010, and the third quarter of 2011, according to the latest EIC Monitor quarterly report.
27 January, 2012
The first REpower 3.4M104 onshore wind turbine has been sold in the UK for phase one of a repowering project at Blyth Harbour.
27 January, 2012
The UK has reached 6 GW of installed wind power capacity, according to trade association RenewableUK.
26 January, 2012
American Colors Inc, a custom colour house serving the plastics and coatings industries, has appointed North Coast Chemical Sales as sales agent for thermoset composites.
25 January, 2012
Rolls-Royce / GKN Aerospace joint venture CTAL has opened a £14.8 million facility on the Isle of Wight, UK, to develop manufacturing processes for aircraft engine fan blades and fan cases made of composite materials.
25 January, 2012
General Dynamics Armament and Technical Products has been awarded a US$23 million contract by Spirit AeroSystems to produce composite winglets for commercial business aircraft.
25 January, 2012
New offshore wind installations in Europe remained relative stable in 2011 with 866 MW, compared to 883 MW in 2010, according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
24 January, 2012
A HOBAS composite potable water tank has helped the Austrian town of Karlstetten avoid water shortages each year.
24 January, 2012
AVK is inviting presentations for its annual conference, which is once again co-located with the COMPOSITES EUROPE trade fair in Germany.
24 January, 2012
XBoards Inc has developed a limited edition snowboard, called BioBoard™, made from flax fibre reinforced composite.
24 January, 2012
Advanced Composites Group (ACG) Ltd and Richmond Aerovac will be co-exhibiting under the Umeco banner at the Seatec/Compotec 2012 shows in Italy this February.
23 January, 2012
The huge clock tower at the centre of the Abraj-Al Arab development in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, was constructed using composite materials from Gurit.
23 January, 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
23 January, 2012
Bombardier Aerospace has announced that Geneva-based PrivatAir has placed a firm order for five CS100 aircraft and has taken options on an additional five.
21 January, 2012
The Scott Bader Europe Composites Division has expanded the Crystic gel-coats and Crestabond structural adhesives mixer capacity of its plants in the UK and France.
20 January, 2012
Mainstream Renewable Power has raised €40 million in loan notes to finance its domestic and international renewable energy plans.
19 January, 2012
Custom Composites has launched a range of products for the marine sector, including masts, tiller extensions and safety rails.
19 January, 2012
Suzlon Energy Ltd has entered a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Government of Andhra Pradesh for the development of 3 GW of wind capacity in the state between 2012 and 2016.
19 January, 2012
Seifert and Skinner & Associates (SSA) has expanded its composites laboratory and opened a new testing facility and office in Hasselt, Belgium, enabling it to perform prototype fabrication and testing of composite pressure vessels.
19 January, 2012
METYX Composites has invested in a state-of-the-art MAX 5 multiaxial machine to produce carbon fibre reinforcements.
18 January, 2012
Resin supplier AOC LLC has announced a February price increase for all products sold in Europe.
18 January, 2012
Denise Bode, CEO of the American Wind Energy Association, is commenting on Vestas' job cuts and possible US layoffs depending on the extension of the US Production Tax Credit for wind energy.
17 January, 2012
Scott Bader Europe is increasing the prices of its Crystic® polyester, DCPD based and vinyl ester resins, Crystic® gel-coats, Crestapol® resins and Crestomer® adhesives.
17 January, 2012
Reichhold will increase prices for all polyester and vinyl ester resins, gel-coats and bonding paste resins in February.
17 January, 2012
Vestas is cutting 2335 jobs around the world in an effort to streamline the business and cut costs, and warns an additional 1600 jobs could go in the USA if the production tax credit (PTC) is not extended beyond 2012.
17 January, 2012
AOC LLC has announced price increases for vinyl ester and unsaturated polyester resins, gel-coats and pigments in the United States and Canada.
16 January, 2012
A Danish project has been granted DKr1.6 million by the Danish National Advanced Technology Foundation for research on a mass production method for high quality automotive composite components.
16 January, 2012
Gurit has launched a new range of G-PET structural foam core material mainly designed for the wind turbine blade manufacturing and marine markets.
16 January, 2012
Wind turbine manufacturer REpower Systems SE has purchased the remaining 49% stake in wind turbine blade producer PowerBlades GmbH from SGL Rotec GmbH & Co KG.
16 January, 2012
There has been large interest in France's 3 GW offshore wind tender with four consortia competing for five sites off the coasts of Normandy and Brittany.
16 January, 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
16 January, 2012
Hexagon Composites subsidiary Devold AMT is intending to move the remaining production of multiaxial reinforcements from its plant in Langevåg, Norway, to the company's factory in Lithuania. Up to 26 employees will be affected by this move.
14 January, 2012
AOC's new Vipel® L085-PPA epoxy novolac vinyl ester resin range is designed for cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) applications that need resistance to aggressive chemicals and high temperatures.
13 January, 2012
UK company Elmira has developed a range of bio-based prepregs.
13 January, 2012
Chinese wind turbine manufacturers are facing tough times with factors such as safety, quality, reliability and after-sale service possibly tilting the scales in favour of Western companies, says analyst Frost & Sullivan.
13 January, 2012
Suzlon will deliver 24 MW of wind turbines to a project in Brazil, and its subsidiary REpower, is set to deliver 150 of wind turbines to Oklahoma, USA.
12 January, 2012
Quatro Composites has been awarded a contract to certify and produce Boeing 787 Dreamliner composite stowage bin fittings for the 787-9 model.
12 January, 2012
Gamesa has opened a wind turbine blades factory in India to supply the G5X-850 kW and G9X-2.0 MW wind turbines.
12 January, 2012
Shandong Heavy Industry Group (SHIG)-Weichai Group has reached agreements with the major creditors of luxury yacht maker Ferretti to acquire a controlling interest in Ferretti by participating in Ferretti’s debt restructuring.
11 January, 2012
Vestas has signed a conditional wind turbine order for the 310 MW Lake Turkana Power project in Kenya.
11 January, 2012
PlastiComp Inc, a compounder of long fibre reinforced thermoplastics (LFT), has purchased the Winona airport campus facility from Minnesota State Colleges and Universities (MNSCU).
11 January, 2012
Japanese group Toray Industries Inc has purchased the remaining shares in carbon fibre manufacturer Société des Fibres de Carbone SA (SOFICAR) in France from Arkema, making it a wholly owned subsidiary of Toray.
10 January, 2012
Vestas has reported a preliminary revenue estimate of €6 billion for 2011 with an EBIT margin of 0%, due to deferred revenue and earnings, as well as higher-than-expected costs.
10 January, 2012
Momentive Specialty Chemicals Inc is increasing the prices for epoxy resin products in the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region.
10 January, 2012
Reichhold has opened a new facility for manufacturing resins in Tianjin, China.
10 January, 2012
The FARR 400 carbon composite one-design racing yacht designed by FARR Yacht Design and built by Premier Composite Technologies has won awards from two sailing magazines.
10 January, 2012
Global R&D spending is set to grow 5.2% to US$1.4 trillion in 2012, according to the Battelle R&D Magazine Global R&D Funding Forecast.
09 January, 2012
Spirit AeroSystems Inc has delivered its first composite centre fuselage section for the Airbus A350 XWB programme.
09 January, 2012
Renewable energy sources continue to expand rapidly while substantially outpacing the growth rates of fossil fuels and nuclear power, according to the Monthly Energy Review by the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).
09 January, 2012
AkzoNobel and DSM have announced the signing of a cross-license agreement on cobalt-free technologies for the curing of thermoset resins.
09 January, 2012
The renewable energy share accounted for 12.4% of overall gross final energy consumption in 2010, as against 11.5% in 2009, according to EurObserv’ER's figures for all European Union Member States (EU-27) for 2010.
09 January, 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
09 January, 2012
Aurora Flight Sciences has delivered the first complete ship set of composite structures to Northrop Grumman Corporation for the US Navy's Broad Area Maritime Surveillance Unmanned Aircraft System (BAMS UAS) programme.
08 January, 2012
Boeing has announced that the Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) facility in Wichita will close by the end of 2013. The facility currently employs more than 2160 people.
07 January, 2012
The Pewano team from Sweden entered the 2012 Dakar Rally in a Volvo XC60 RR car with a composite body built using TeXtreme® spread tow carbon fabrics manufactured by Oxeon AB.
06 January, 2012
Composites moulder Norco GRP and CNC specialist mouldCAM Europe have produced temperature stable direct tooling and a prototype dinghy for UK sailboat manufacturer RS Sailing.
05 January, 2012
The German Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency has approved the 97-turbine Borkum Riffgrund 2 offshore wind farm in the German North Sea.
05 January, 2012
FORMAX, a manufacturer of carbon fibre and speciality composite reinforcements, has been granted membership to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD)'s Materials and Structures Technology Science and Technology Centre (MAST STC).
04 January, 2012
The following 5 news articles published in 2011 were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during the year.
03 January, 2012
Airbus has delivered the first major airframe section to the A350 XWB Final Assembly Line in Toulouse, France.
03 January, 2012
China is believed to have connected 45 GW of wind power to the grid in 2011, up 45% from 2010.
03 January, 2012
Pakistan could have 12 wind projects totalling 1 GW in the pipeline for installation in 2013, according to media reports.
03 January, 2012
The following 5 feature articles published in 2011 were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during the year.
03 January, 2012
Gamesa will deliver 100 of its G80-2.0 MW wind turbines to the New & Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) for a total of 200 MW of wind projects in the Gulf of El-Zayt on Egypt’s Red Sea coast.
03 January, 2012
Hammerfest Strøm has installed its 1 MW HS1000 tidal turbine 100 ft under water at the European Marine Energy Centre (EMEC) in Orkney, UK.
02 January, 2012
Figures from the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) show that companies have announced plans for almost £2.5 billion worth of renewable energy investment in the UK, with the potential to create almost 12,000 jobs, so far in the financial year 2011/12.
02 January, 2012
Snowboard manufacturer Fanatic Snowboards has built its new premium boards using TeXtreme® spread tow carbon fabrics from Oxeon.
02 January, 2012