Liz Nickels

Award nomination for carbon fiber hockey stick

Hypetex, which makes colored carbon fiber materials, says that its new composite field hockey stick, commissioned by adidas, has been selected as a finalist in the 2022 JEC Innovation Awards.

Lab-scale thermoplastic equipment

Cygnet Texkimp has created a lab-scale version of its thermoplastic processing equipment for customer trials. 

Custom pultruded profiles for bridge

Fibrolux, which makes pultruded composites, has supplied more than 16km of a large-scale custom glass fiber pultrusion for what it says is its largest civil engineering project to date.

New adhesive distributor for Scott Bader

Scott Bader has appointed Neill’s Materials to distribute its structural adhesives in the UK.

Covering all bases

A wind farm supplying 34MW of energy required lightweight, moveable trough access covers to protect its power cabling.

Hexcel’s Q4 results

Hexcel says that its Q4 2021 sales were US$360.3 million, up from US$295.8 million in the previous year.

Thermoplastic carbon fiber bike frame

The National Composites Centre (NCC) in the UK has worked with partners to prove that thermoplastic carbon fiber can be used to make an electric mountain bike frame.

Net sales decrease for Gurit

Gurit has reported net sales of CHF 467.9 million for the full year 2021, a decrease of 19.8% at constant exchange rates or 18.9% in reported CHF versus prior year.

Composite truck deflectors

A new concept truck developed by Volvo reportedly features composite deflectors made by Brazilian re-inforced plastic specialist Gatron.

Glass fiber automotive connector

BASF has supplied a glass fiber composite material to make a new automotive connector.

Luxury yacht with composite surface technology

Yacht builder Sunseeker has used composite surface technology to produce prepreg parts for its 90 Ocean vessel.

Graphene nanotubes for thermoplastics

Graphene specialist OCSiAl has launched a new graphene nanotube concentrate for polyamide (PA), filled Polyphenylene sulfide (PPS), Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS), Thermoplastic polyurethane...