Category: Columns

Last week, Coast Composites LLC, an Ascent Tooling Group company, announced it won a contract from Boeing to manufacture the largest-ever wing skin molds for the Boeing 777X. According...

Three 3-D printed drones designed by Chris Green and manufactured by The University Of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre’s (AMRC) Design and Prototyping Group (DPG) are now on display as...

Last week, via an Oct. 7 press release, BMW introduced its 2016 M4 GTS – the first production road car in the world to feature a water-injection system. The...

BMW announced it will loan its electric i3 car to the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) for evaluation over the next 12 months. The evaluation will mark the i3’s...

The Port of Port Angeles, Wash. is moving forward with plans to launch a Composite Recycling Technology Center (CRTC) at the composites manufacturing campus in Port Angeles, Wash. The Port...

After extensive laboratory research on glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) as internal reinforcement of concrete, graduate students at the University of Miami are working with Moss Construction Management to...

According to a recent press release from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, the Air Force Small Business Innovation/Small Business Technology Transfer (SBIR/STTR) has provided PROOF Research’s Advanced Composites Division with $750,000...

Composite Structural Connections As the polymer composites industry continues to grow, questions arise concerning connections between composites and between composites and other materials such as metals, wood, concrete or...

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...