Driving Large-Scale Adoption of Thermoplastic Composites Across Key Industries

There’s a growing surge of interest in large-scale adoption of thermoplastic composites across industries from aerospace to advanced air mobility (AAM), energy, defense, and other sporting and industrial markets driven by their scalable processability, circularity, high-performance characteristics, and the ability to offer significantly enhanced operational efficiency.

Discover how thermoplastic composites are scaling from innovative technology to industrial manufacturing solutions. Join Toray Advanced Composites to explore the history, the current hurdles, and the breakthrough technologies created through collaborations such as European Union Clean Sky 2, NASA HiCAM, and other public-private programs that are driving the sector toward sustainable, large-scale adoption.

Learning objectives:

• Review key factors influencing large-scale adoption to aid industry leaders in determining a shared path forward with thermoplastics integration
• Understand the historical perspective & current obstacles to fuel advancement in technology
• Examine recent technological advances in manufacturing to collaborate in future developments across various industries

Presenter
DeWayne Howell, Toray Advanced Composites, Application Development and Expert Service Field Manager

A graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a degree in Aerospace Engineering, DeWayne has 40 years of composite material and structural design & analysis experience. The past 12 years of his career have been with Toray Advanced Composites. He is currently an Application Development Engineering Manager specializing in thermoplastic materials, part design, structural analysis, and fabrication. His work history includes NASA, Northrop Grumman, CompositeTek, and Fiberforge. DeWayne has authored 12 published technical papers and several design guides. He has developed, authored, marketed, and sold CompositePro, a popular design and analysis software package for composite structures now known as Autodesk Helius Composite.