National Composites Week 2020

National Composites Week Slated for August 24 – 28, 2020 This August, the composites industry will once again come together …

National Composites Week Slated for August 24 – 28, 2020 This August, the composites industry will once again come together …

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Teijin High-Performance Fiber Strengthens NASA Mars Rover Landing Parachute

The Mars Perseverance Rover is carrying the heaviest payload yet in its latest mission to seek signs of past life on Mars and to gather rocks and soil to be […]

Carbon Fiber in Clear View on New Donkervoort Supercar

The core of Donkervoort Automobielen’s JD70 is a hybrid chassis built of a tubular steel ladder frame reinforced with carbon fiber for added strength and reduced weight. That’s just the […]

Recycled Carbon Fiber Gets Second Life in Surfboards

Sustainability is a core value of JUC SURF. The three founders of JUC Surf have experience working with carbon fiber in manufacturing with leading companies such as Boeing and Ford […]

ACMA Upcoming Events

OEM Virtual Roundtables: ACMA Composites Technology Day Events – Starting July 30, 2020: Position your company as a problem solver …

OEM Virtual Roundtables: ACMA Composites Technology Day Events – Starting July 30, 2020: Position your company as a problem solver …

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Delivery Truck Being Designed of Sustainable Natural Woven Composites

  Featuring panels made from sustainable, natural, woven flax composites and an all-electric drivetrain, the Volta Zero electric truck is a clean, efficient way for logistics companies to transport goods. […]

Thermosets Expand Opportunities in 3D Printing

The production of large-scale, 3D-printed thermoplastic composite parts has proved that additive manufacturing (AM) can reduce the time, material and labor required to make tooling and other products. But these […]

Autonomous Aircraft Goes the Distance

Drones and autonomous lightweight vehicles may begin delivering packages to homes and businesses in the coming decade, but their customers will be clustered around urban areas. Startup Elroy Air is […]

Turning Ideas into Innovations

Perhaps now more than ever, university research is critical. Inquisitive researchers on campuses across the U.S. are working on projects related to materials, technologies, processes and applications in the composites […]

Good Neighbors

Skagit Valley is an idyllic region in northwestern Washington, renowned for its tulip fields and berry farms in the south and the breathtaking peaks of the Cascade Mountains in the […]