RenewableUK says the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England's (CPRE) concern about over-development of onshore wind turbines is “misplaced”, as the actual number of wind turbines for England is less than a sixth of CPRE's figure of 12,000.
02 May 2012
Amber Composites will feature in the UK government’s Make it in Great Britain exhibition, which takes place in London during the Olympic and Paralympic Games this summer.
02 May 2012
Vestas' loss almost doubled in the first quarter (Q1) of 2012 to €162 million, compared with a loss of €85m in the same period last year, as the company continues to struggle – and it is postponing the prototype of the new V164 7 MW offshore wind turbine.
02 May 2012
Hexcel has officially opened an extension to its prepreg facility in Stade, Germany, which will increase plant capacity to support increasing build rates for the Airbus A350 XWB and other aircraft programmes.
02 May 2012
Victrex Polymer Solutions has announced a strategic partnership with Umeco under which Umeco will market release films made from Victrex's APTIV® film, which is based on high performance PEEK polymer.
01 May 2012
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during the month of April.
01 May 2012
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