Category: Columns

Spirit AeroSystems Inc. is installing one of the world’s largest autoclaves at its Wichita, Kan., facility. The new autoclave is 120 feet long, has a 30-foot diameter and an...

Belgium-based company ONAK has launched a Kickstarter campaign to improve upon one of its unique products – a composite-made canoe that folds like origami and can fit in a...

Next year, British researchers at the Surrey Space Centre (Surry, England) will begin the world’s first mission to test out a space junk litter-picker, known as the “RemoveDebris” satellite....

An electric racing car built by a group of students in Switzerland-based Academic Motorsports Club Zurich (AMZ) has broken the world record for fastest acceleration by a battery-powered vehicle...

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....

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...

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...

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...

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...