New Advanced Digital & Optical Inspection for Wind Turbine Blade Leading Edges

Wind is becoming increasingly important as a clean energy source worldwide. Accordingly, larger wind turbines with higher performance expectations are being manufactured to meet these needs. As performance demands increase, […]

OSU Advances NASA-Aligned Multiscale Modeling for Future Aerospace Materials

The computational cost of understanding advanced material behavior can be overwhelming to an engineering team. Traditional models do not always capture the behavior of complex materials at realistic scales. Researchers […]

Anemoi’s Composite Rotor Sails Moving Union Maritime Tankers Toward Sustainability Goals

Union Maritime developed a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20% or more (based on 2008 levels) as required by the IMO’s 2030 checkpoint. By implementing wind-assisted propulsion, the […]

MLB Stadium Roof Repaired with Composite Materials

Hurricane Milton blew through St. Petersburg, FL in 2024 and did severe damage to the roof of Tropicana Field, home of Major League Baseball’s Tampa Bay Rays. The dome of […]

Introducing Our November 2025 Certified Composites Technicians

Compression Molding  Melody Guest; IsoTruss Inc.  Instructor  Andrew Pokelwaldt; IACMI  Open Molding  Doug Taylor; Bestbath  Amy McCoubrey; Bestbath  Rigo Perez; Bestbath  Jonathan Gilliam; Bestbath  Todd Gilbert; Bestbath  Andrew Briggs; Chris-Craft  Gavin Seabaugh; Safe Slide Restoration  Jake Fountaine  Simon […]

Auburn University Enhancing Advanced Manufacturing with CF3D Enterprise® Cell

The Auburn University Research and Innovation Campus has become the leading gateway to Auburn University’s research capabilities and resources for the Huntsville region’s fast-growing hypersonic development ecosystem. The university expanded […]

Small Camping Trailer Features a Single Seamless Fiberglass Shell

Escape Trailers started more than 30 years ago as a business buying old fiberglass trailers and repairing them. The company moved into renting its rehabbed trailers and then to building […]

Structural Testing on MQ-9B RPA is Successful

Since late 2022, the airframe of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) has been in full-scale fatigue (FSF) testing protocols at Wichita State University’s National […]

Researchers Developed a Method of Morphing Structures from 2D into 3D Curved Structures in Space

Transporting large structures into space is both challenging and expensive. With those challenges in mind, a research team at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, supported by […]

ACMA Members Impress the Insurance Institute on Composites

ACMA’s Composites Growth Initiative Staff led a group of ACMA member companies from the Pultrusion Industry Council on November 5th to give a mini–Composites Technology Day with educational presentations to […]