Tag: Resin

Creative suppliers can turn marketplace challenges into business opportunities. Suppliers of FRP pipes and tanks agree that the past year has been comparatively slow when it comes to new...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have used Cincinnati Incorporated’s CAMX-award winning Big Area Additive Manufacturing (BAAM) technology, to 3D print an entire table that contains 10 percent bamboo...

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...