Tag: Fiberglass

Gel coats and veils provide the finishing touch. Composites manufacturers today use surface finishes like gel coats and veils to improve their parts’ appearance and durability. But when their...

Thanks to innovative manufacturing, there may now be a solution to a problem many in the working world face: a lack of privacy in an open office. MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab,...

Latitude Yachts’ futuristic, all-composite 53 meter (~174 foot) multihull trimaran known as the “Galaxy of Happiness” debuted at the Monaco Yacht Show. The yacht and its twin, simply named...

For decades, the composites industry has been searching for ways to gain traction in the mainstream automotive market. Four years ago, the EPA announced a fuel economy standard of...

Adwen, a joint venture between wind turbine OEMs AREVA and Gamesa, partnered with long-time blade manufacturer LM Wind Power (Kolding, Denmark) to produce the longest blade in the world...

At the RAPID 2016 show in Orlando, Fla., EnvisionTEC unveiled its Selective Lamination Composites Object Manufacturing (SLCOM 1) machine. According to the company, the machine is the first and...

At the 2016 London Motor Show, Wales-based eco-car manufacturer Riversimple debuted its signature hydrogen-powered car, the two-seat Rasa, which features fiberglass body panels and a carbon fiber composite chassis...

The Making of Glass Fiber Engineered minerals are melted in high-temperature, firebrick lined furnaces, refined to allow volatile materials to escape the “melt.” The melt flows out of the...

The future of electric vehicles could soon come charging down the road – in more ways than one – with composites playing a key role. At a Logan, Utah,...