Composites in the Fast Lane

The industry is evolving quickly to meet automotive lightweighting demands. Deadlines are looming for CAFE fuel efficiency standards in the U.S. (54.5 mpg fleet average by 2025) and for Europe’s […]

NASA Creating Biggest Composite Rocket Parts Ever for Mars Mission

NASA’s team at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala. Is using one of the largest composites manufacturing robots created in America to build the biggest, lightweight composite parts […]

Scaled Composites and Microsoft Close to Completing World’s Largest Airplane

Scaled Composites has confirmed that its Stratolaunch Carrier Aircraft, the world’s biggest plane, will begin testing next year. The concept of the plane is a product of combined innovation from […]

GM Lightens Corvette with Composites from CSP

Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) announced that the manufacturing of the 2016 Chevrolet Corvette’s body will be the first production use of its advanced composite, TCA Ultra Lite. According to CSP […]

Ford Reinvents the Carbon Fiber Wheel for Shelby GT350R Mustang

Ford has laid claim as the first major automaker to mass produce carbon fiber wheels as standard equipment for a production vehicle. Ford teamed up with Australian supplier Carbon Revolution […]

Fiberglass Armor with Printed Electronic Antenna Completed

Applied Nanotech, Inc. (ANI), in collaboration with Armortex, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville and Villanova University, has tested and completed fiberglass ballistic and blast-resistant armor panels with printed electronic […]

3D Printing Used to Make Carbon Fiber Printing Robot

Basia Dżaman, a student at Poznań, Poland’s School of Form, has created a machine that can print and weave carbon fiber.  Dżaman modified robots by KUKA, a renowned industrial manufacturer, […]

World’s First 3-D Printed Office Building to be Built in Dubai

The United Arab Emirates National Innovation Committee has revealed a project to create the world’s first ever 3-D printed office building. While there have been some teams in the past […]

The First Mars Airplane will be made with Composites

NASA scientists recently announced the agency has begun prototyping a boomerang-shaped plane projected to make the first flight on Mars at some point between 2022 and 2024. “We’re going to build […]

Composites Repair

Composite parts are widely used due to their unique properties, including durability. Unfortunately, even the best designed and best made parts can be damaged by unforeseen circumstances either at the […]