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 […]
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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®. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]