SP-High Modulus, the marine business of Gurit, is a silver sponsor of the 2012 Superyacht Cup in Cowes, Isle of Wight, UK.
30 April, 2012
GKN Aerospace is using a suite of large-scale tooling mandrels manufactured by Umeco, using Umeco prepregs, to produce the Airbus A350 XWB rear wing spars using advanced fibre placement (AFP) technology.
30 April, 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
30 April, 2012
Vestas says a loose connection in the electrical system started the fire in the V112 3 MW wind turbine at the Gross Eilstorf wind farm in Germany on 30 March.
30 April, 2012
Turbo Mach LLC, a subsidiary of North American Aircraft Services Inc (NAAS), has been renamed North American Composites.
30 April, 2012
Owens Corning reports consolidated net sales of US$1.35 billion for the first quarter of 2012, up 9% over the same period of 2011.
28 April, 2012
Hexcel Corporation reports net sales during of US$400.1 million for the first quarter of 2012, an increase of 20.7% over the first quarter of 2011.
27 April, 2012
Adhesives supplier SCIGRIP has announced the appointment of Marineware as UK distributor.
27 April, 2012
Most clean energy technologies are not being deployed quickly enough despite technological progress, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA), which is urging governments to accelerate the use of clean and renewable energy.
27 April, 2012
Airbus has delivered the aft fuselage for the A350 XWB static test airframe to the final assembly line in Toulouse, France. This final section of the fuselage will be assembled with the front and centre fuselage sections which were joined up in early April.
27 April, 2012
Gamesa and Toyota Spain will boost the use of electric vehicles in urban Spain under a collaboration agreement.
26 April, 2012
Royal Engineered Composites is planning to install a new autoclave in November 2012.
26 April, 2012
FORMAX has completed the installation of a new Karl Mayer 100” Malitronic™ MULTIAXIAL machine, which increases the company's production capacity for glass fibre multiaxial fabrics by 25%.
25 April, 2012
The UK and US will collaborate on floating wind under a new agreement to be finalised during this week's Clean Energy Ministerial in London.
25 April, 2012
Pepin Associates Inc has developed a discontinuous, unidirectional preimpregnated reinforcement tape (unitape), called DiscoTape™, which has the ability to stretch up to 30% to form complex shapes.
25 April, 2012
Conductive Composites Company has developed nickel chemical vapour deposition (CVD) coated nonwovens.
24 April, 2012
Janicki Industries is adding to its composites capabilities with the introduction of a 50 ft long, 12 ft diameter autoclave.
24 April, 2012
Chinese wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind has launched its new wind turbine, designed for “ultra-low” wind speeds.
24 April, 2012
Supported by nova-Institut GmbH, Germany, the Wood-Plastic Composites Pavilion at COMPOSITES CHINA 2012 is co-organised by Reed Exhibitions and the China Association of Comprehensive Resource Utilization's Wood-Plastic Composites Committee.
24 April, 2012
The Lola-Drayson B12/69EV prototype electric race car employs recycled composites and flax reinforced composites, both products born out of joint development programmes involving Umeco.
24 April, 2012
BASF's new video highlights how Enercon GmbH is using BASF products in the manufacture of its wind turbine blades.
23 April, 2012
Canadian researchers are set to test fly aircraft using biofuel made with a new industrialised oil-seed feedstock engineered especially for biofuel production.
23 April, 2012
China’s largest wind power developer Long Yuan has opted for GE turbines for its first overseas project, a 100MW wind farm in Ontario, Canada.
23 April, 2012
Automated Dynamics has announced a contract with the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, to manufacture an automated fibre placement (AFP) work cell.
23 April, 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
23 April, 2012
Norplex-Micarta, a manufacturer of high performance thermoset composites, is offering contract manufacturing at its Postville, Iowa, headquarters.
22 April, 2012
Moulding press suppliers Wabash MPI and Carver Inc will be exhibiting at the SAMPE 2012 trade show in Baltimore in May.
21 April, 2012
Creative Composites, based in Northern Ireland, has invested in another 5-axis CNC trimming centre.
20 April, 2012
Caterham Composites, the composites design and engineering arm of the Caterham Group, is expanding its bases in Germany and the UK.
20 April, 2012
Atmos Consulting has developed computer modelling tools to enable wind farm developers and operators to comply with planning requirements for long-term post-construction monitoring (PCM) of bird behaviour more cost effectively.
19 April, 2012
Carbon fibre supplier Zoltek Corporation has agreed to sponsor Hungarian sailing team Team Fahajó when it competes in the IMOCA Ocean Racing World Championship Series in 2013.
19 April, 2012
GKN Aerospace researchers at the company’s Luton, UK, facility are working with a team at the University of Bristol in the UK on an 18 month programme to explore coatings chemistries that will indicate the existence and extent of damage in composite structures.
19 April, 2012
Dong Energy is to test two next generation offshore wind turbines at its Gunfleet Sands site off the eastern coast of England, following consent from the UK authorities to install the turbines.
18 April, 2012
Boeing and Mubadala Aerospace have announced a 10-year direct contract for Strata Manufacturing, Mubadala's composite aerostructures facility in Abu Dhabi, to produce composite aerostructures for the Boeing 777 and 787 Dreamliner aircraft.
18 April, 2012
The Knoxville Utilities Board has used cured-in-place pipe (CIPP) technology with a UV curing resin from AOC to repair an underground sewer pipe in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
18 April, 2012
GE is to supply 31 of its 1.6-100 wind turbines to a wind project in Turkey, the first of the series to be installed in Europe.
18 April, 2012
Thermoplastics compounder RheTech Inc has expanded its RheVision® biocomposites product line to include agave fibre and coconut fibre.
17 April, 2012
The SGL Group of Germany has completed the acquisition of an 86% stake in Portuguese acrylic fibre producer Fisipe.
17 April, 2012
It's two days to go to this free webinar covering the use of glass fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) in corrosive environments, which is being organised by Reinforced Plastics and Owens Corning.
17 April, 2012
GKN Aerospace is using laser technology to automate the repair of composite structures.
16 April, 2012
Clariant's Exolit® EP halogen-free flame retardants for epoxy resins are designed to achieve high fire safety levels in transport and construction applications.
16 April, 2012
Around 80 people attended the 11th European Pultrusion Technology Association (EPTA) World Pultrusion Conference in Istanbul, Turkey, on 22-23 March.
16 April, 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
16 April, 2012
To meet the demand from the increased use of composites in the commercial aerospace industry, HEATCON Composite Systems has launched a product designed to improve process control in the repair of composite materials.
16 April, 2012
Danish turbine manufacturer Vestas has said it is “confident” it is closer to finding out the root cause of a fire in one of its turbines last month.
16 April, 2012
Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa is to launch a new 2MW turbine, which it says is ideally suited for developments on sites with low wind speeds.
16 April, 2012
At JEC Europe 2012, Hexcel showcased several new composites applications, including a fuselage panel for the Airbus A350 XWB and the roof of the Lamborghini Aventador.
15 April, 2012
Peter D. Dornier, CEO of Lindauer DORNIER GmbH, will give the keynote lecture at the 6th CFK-Valley Stade Convention in June.
14 April, 2012
After four years in build by McConaghy Boats in China, the 42.5 m trimaran Adastra has been launched.
13 April, 2012
Sigmatex (UK) Ltd, a manufacturer of carbon fibre textiles, has been presented with a JEC Innovation Award for work resulting from FibreCycle, a project to develop processes for recovering and recycling carbon fibre.
13 April, 2012
Ford Motor Company and Dow Automotive Systems are partnering to research the use of advanced carbon fibre composites in high-volume vehicles.
13 April, 2012
Following the presentation of the BMW i3 and BMW i8 concept cars, BMW Group has now unveiled a third i model – the BMW i8 Spyder two-seat sports car. This also features a carbon fibre reinforced plastics passenger cell.
12 April, 2012
TenCate Advanced Composites has now joined the National Composites Centre as a Tier 2 member.
12 April, 2012
AmpStar, a producer of composite reinforced aluminium conductors for high voltage transmission lines, has chosen S-1 HM™ glass fibre from AGY for the high-strength composite core of its new composite reinforced aluminium conductor (CRAC).
12 April, 2012
Cytec Industries Inc's Engineered Materials business has been awarded a long-term agreement to supply high-performance composite and adhesive materials for the Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China Ltd (COMAC) C919 commercial aircraft.
12 April, 2012
Cytec Industries Inc has announced plans to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Umeco plc, a UK headquartered provider of advanced composite materials, for approximately US$439 million.
12 April, 2012
The United States Department of Energy (DoE) is to make up to $9 million available in 2012 to fund approximately 50 small businesses to advance innovative energy efficiency and renewable energy.
11 April, 2012
German wind turbine manufacturer Nordex has scored an order for its 2.5MW N90/2500 turbine from China, the first since the launch of a marketing campaign for the multi-MW series in the Far East.
11 April, 2012
The French Government has kicked off France’s offshore wind programme, by awarding the first tenders for offshore wind projects in the country.
11 April, 2012
Spanish wind turbine manufacturer Gamesa has won the JEC Innovation award for wind energy for the second year running, this time for one of its modular blades, the Innoblade.
11 April, 2012
CNC cutting system manufacturer MultiCam® Inc has unveiled the 8000 Series Five-Axis Router designed for high-speed, heavy-duty routing in the composites, plastics, woodworking, and non-ferrous metals industries.
11 April, 2012
Final assembly of the first Airbus A350 XWB aircraft is underway at the new final assembly line in Toulouse, France, as Airbus starts joining the 19.7 m long centre fuselage with the 21 m long front fuselage.
11 April, 2012
Lennart Hagelqvist will take over as CEO for core materials supplier DIAB, following current CEO Anders Paulsson's request to step down from this position.
11 April, 2012
SP-High Modulus, the marine business of Gurit, has signed a contract to provide engineering services for what is scheduled to be the largest private sailing yacht ever built – Dream Symphony.
11 April, 2012
McConaghy Boats has highlighted its involvement in the building of James Cameron's record-breaking one-man submarine, the DEEPSEA CHALLENGER, which last month reached the deepest seabed in the world.
10 April, 2012
AOC's latest unsaturated polyester resin system, Firepel® K120, is halogen-free and fire retardant and is designed for rail, van and bus applications.
10 April, 2012
Seven weeks ahead of doors opening in Aberdeen, All-Energy 2012, one of the UK’s largest renewables exhibitions, has revealed three new “zones” that will be featured in the show.
10 April, 2012
PPG Industries’ Fiber Glass business has added three CHOPVANTAGE chopped strand fibre products to its portfolio.
10 April, 2012
Scott Bader Europe is increasing the prices for its resins and other manufactured composite products on 1 May 2012.
10 April, 2012
The French wind industry is to showcase itself at the forthcoming EWEA exhibition in Denmark in the coming weeks.
10 April, 2012
Reinforced Plastics magazine and Reed Exhibitions are inviting presentations for the Reinforced Plastics & COMPOSITES CHINA Congress 2012, taking place on 7 June in Shanghai.
10 April, 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
10 April, 2012
Eleven major wind energy companies have signed a “Wind Charter” promising to use wind power to boost national prosperity in the UK.
10 April, 2012
The JEC Europe 2012 trade show last month attracted a total of 32 256 visitors, up from 29 867 in 2011.
08 April, 2012
The organising committee for the SPE Automotive Composites Conference & Exhibition (ACCE) has teamed up with Missouri University of Science & Technology to develop an online survey investigating the importance of sustainability in the field of polymer composites.
07 April, 2012
AIC Group and the National Composites Centre (NCC) have announced a new, two-part strategic partnership.
06 April, 2012
TenCate Advanced Composites has launched an iPad app focusing on its aerospace and industrial composite product line.
05 April, 2012
SGL Group, Germany, has signed a contract to acquire an 86% stake in Portuguese company Fisipe for approximately €25 million and will develop a production facility for carbon fibre precursor.
05 April, 2012
Hexagon Composites subsidiary Composite Scandinavia AB has decided to stop production of composite LPG cylinders in Piteå, Sweden.
04 April, 2012
Energy ministers from 23 of the world's leading economies will meet in London from 25-27 April, to work together on accelerating the transition to clean energy technologies ahead of a major sustainable development conference this summer.
04 April, 2012
Turbine manufacturer GE is to supply turbines to 9 new wind power projects in the Canadian province of Ontario.
04 April, 2012
A planned offshore wind farm off the coast of Massachusetts could cut US$286 million a year from New England electricity bills, a study has revealed.
03 April, 2012
3B's HiPer-tex™ W3030 glass roving is optimised for the manufacture of wind turbine blades using resin infusion processes with polyester or vinyl ester resins.
03 April, 2012
Huntsman Advanced Materials is launching two new mobile apps for Android and iPhone with product selectors enabling identification of the right Araldite® industrial adhesive or Araldite composite formulated system by process or application.
03 April, 2012
Harper International has launched Beacon™, a new program offering carbon fibre manufacturers the ability to evaluate the carbon footprint of their manufacturing process.
03 April, 2012
Gurit has announced a new supply contract with an existing automotive customer.
03 April, 2012
Norplex-Micarta's RT571 is a high strength tubing composed of a heavy weave glass fabric with an epoxy resin system.
03 April, 2012
Innovative Composites International Inc (ICI) has announced the start of the production line designed to produce composite modular homes at its Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA, facility.
03 April, 2012
AGC Composites Group, part of AGC Aerospace & Defense, has acquired Hill AeroSystems Inc, a US specialist in the design and manufacture of complex metal parts and assemblies.
02 April, 2012
Turkish resin producer Poliya Composite Resins and Polymers (Poliya) has entered into a marketing and distribution agreement with speciality chemicals distributor Azelis Italia.
02 April, 2012
Software specialist Dassault Systèmes has become the first Associate Member of the National Composites Centre, the UK’s new hub for design and manufacture of high quality composite products.
02 April, 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during the month of March.
02 April, 2012
Gurit has agreed the continuation of supplies of prepreg materials for all Airbus aircraft types for the years 2012 and 2013 with an existing customer.
02 April, 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
02 April, 2012