IACMI Partners with World’s First Carbon Fiber Recycling Facility for Product Development

At the recently-opened Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTC), IACMI-The Composites Institute signed an agreement to establish the CRTC as a strategic partner and West Coast satellite location for IACMI. The […]

New Lamborghini Composites Center Experimenting with Revolutionary Carbon Fiber

At its newly-opened Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory (ACSL) in Seattle, Lamborghini is continuing development of composite materials through a collaboration with Boeing to mass produce its potentially game-changing Forged Composite®. […]

Quebec Students Set North American Fuel Efficiency Record at 3,788 MPG

During the Society of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE) Supermileage® competition, co-produced with power management company Eaton, a team of students from Université Laval in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, placed first and […]

Gel Coat Basics

Unsaturated polyester resins (UPR) were first developed in the late 1920s in the research group of Dr. Wallace Carothers at DuPont. In the late 1940s, coatings made from these resins […]

Composites Key to Journey to Mars

For the past seven years, San Diego Composites Inc. (SDC) has been working with NASA on the Orion spacecraft, designed to bring humans further into deep space than ever before […]

Fast-cure Prepreg is Making Inroads

New capability opens the way for high-volume production. Facing higher Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards of 54.5 miles per gallon in the U.S. and 95g/km CO2 emissions limits in […]

Local Motors Debuts “Olli” – a Self-Driving 3D-Printed Car

During the Grand Opening of a new Local Motors facility in National Harbor, Md., the company unveiled Olli – a self-driving, 3-D printed electric car made with CFRP. According to […]

European Manufacturers Develop World’s Longest Wind Turbine

Adwen, a joint venture between wind turbine OEMs AREVA and Gamesa, partnered with long-time blade manufacturer LM Wind Power (Kolding, Denmark) to produce the longest blade in the world – […]

The X-57 – NASA’s First X-Plane in 10 Years – Will Fly Next Year

NASA recently unveiled details of its first experimental aircraft in 10 years, the X-57 Maxwell. According to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the X-57 will fly next year to kick off […]

Solar-Powered Aircraft with Composites Has First Test Flight

The highly-publicized world trip by the Solar Impulse 2 – the solar-powered, single-seater plane made with carbon fiber composites – recently received a majority of the headlines last week as […]