Category: Industry Digest

During the World Human Powered Speed Challenge, vehicle designer and manufacturer Aerovelo broke its own record for the fastest human-powered vehicle ever, going 89.6 mph in an egg-shaped bike known...

Over the past few years, Oak Ridge National Laboratory has made many headlines with its collaboration with Cincinnati Inc. on Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) technology, which recently produced...

Teijin Limited has agreed to acquire Continental Structural Plastics Holdings Corporation (CSP), based in Auburn Hills, Mich., for $825 million. Under the terms of the agreement, CSP will become a...

Liverpool-based Briggs Automotive Company (BAC) has developed the BAC Mono – the world’s first car to feature lightweight panels made with graphene composites.  BAC worked with Haydale Composite Solutions...

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) has turned to 3D printing to reduce development costs for wind turbines. AMO has started building molds made from six-foot-tall, 3D...

Dutch firm Studio OBA has designed “Prenuptial Housing” – a floating home that splits in two in the event its owners decide to get a divorce. When couples feel...

Upstart company Cyclotron Cycles has successfully raised enough money on Kickstarter to fund its innovative Cyclotron Bike – the world’s first “smart bike” that rides without spokes or wheels....

At the 50th edition of the Farnborough International Airshow in the England, Boeing announced that it will source carbon fiber prepreg composite material for the Boeing 777X from a...

Northrop Grumman Corporation, a major developer and producer of the U.S. Military’s F-35 weapons system, selected Tulsa-based company NORDAM to manufacture major structural components for the F-35 center fuselage....