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Composites Market Insights, September 13, 2021 |
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Business Development |
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SHAPE Has Recently Undertaken a Project to Trim Composite Components at Volume in the Supply Chain for Motorsport |
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SHAPE Machining has the expertise to provide turnkey composite trimming and machining solutions, with an in-house fixture design team and composite CNC machining experts. Adrian Mortlock, Managing Director of SHAPE Machining Ltd said, “At SHAPE we have been adding to our composite trimming and machining portfolio for several years now, having post machined gearbox casings for Motorsport, produced carbon inserts for F1 and trimmed seat backs for Aerospace.” Composite machining is becoming a ……. |
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Hexcel Awarded Long-Term Contract for Additive Manufactured Parts for the Boeing 777X Family |
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Hexcel Corporation has been awarded a multi-year contract to produce aerospace structures made with HexPEKK-100 for the Boeing 777X. The parts will be manufactured at the company’s additive manufacturing site near Hartford, Connecticut. HexPEKK components can be manufactured-to-print for commercial aerospace, defense and space applications where complexity, lightweight, and strong mechanical performance are critical. These 3D-printed parts meet interior aircraft smoke and toxicity requirements. …….. |
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Haydale Joins Hands with Viritech Consulting Engineering Support Services |
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Haydale, the global advanced materials group, is pleased to announce that the Company has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Viritech Limited. Viritech is developing technologies to deliver advanced hydrogen powertrain solutions for the automotive, aerospace, marine, and distributed power industries and Haydale will provide Viritech with consulting engineering support services, including pressure vessel design, structural analysis, and material science analysis. Haydale is utilizing i ……. |
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Exclusive UK Partnership between Virtek and Measurement Solutions (MSL) to Increase Product Diversity |
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Virtek Vision, market leader of 3D laser-based vision systems, is pleased to declare the formation of a strategic partnership with UK metrology equipment and design software provider Measurement Solutions Limited, (MSL). The partnership offers increased product diversity to the extensive list of MSL UK manufacturing customers with laser projection solutions that can help streamline production, and boost productivity during the manufacturing process. Following the management buyout in 2019, MS ……. |
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NASA Readies Composites-Intensive James Webb Space Telescope for December Launch |
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NASA (Washington, D.C., U.S.) plans to launch the composites-intensive James Webb Space Telescope into orbit on December. 18, 2021. According to the agency, it will serve as the premier deep space observatory for the next decade. The agency set the new target launch date in coordination with Arianespace (Évry-Courcouronnes, France) after Webb recently and successfully completed its rigorous testing regimen. Webb, an international program led by NASA with its partners ESA (European Space Agency ……. |
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Prosidyan Develops Fiber-Based Bioactive Glass Bone Graft Substitute Product Line FIBERGRAFT |
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Prosidyan, Inc., developer of proprietary fiber-based bioactive glass bone graft substitute products, targets the Orthopedic Trauma Market with its FIBERGRAFT BG product line. FIBERGRAFT BG products have been commercially available for over seven years and have been successfully implanted in patients worldwide. FIBERGRAFT BG products are next generation synthetic bioactive bone graft substitutes used to assist in the healing of surgically created osseous defects and osseous defects created from ……. |
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SGL Carbon Puts Additional State-Of-The-Art Soft Felt Line into Operation |
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SGL Carbon is expanding and modernizing its soft felt production. The company invested a single digit million euros in the last two years into an additional carbonization facility at its Meitingen site near Augsburg, Germany, which has now been put into regular operations. Branded as SIGRATHERM materials the carbon and graphite soft felts are used as particularly high-quality insulation material in resistance-heated and induction-heated vacuum furnaces as well as furnaces with an inert gas atmo ……. |
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Carbon Mobile Begins Production Trials of the World’s First Carbon Fiber Smartphone in Germany |
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The Berlin-based start-up Carbon Mobile declares the relocation of its production of sustainable smartphones to Germany. In partnership with commerce & lifecycle service provider, Ingram Micro, the company’s future devices will be produced in the former Motorola factory in Flensburg. The location takes into account the vision to increase high-end quality and sustainability in smartphone production whilst reinstating Schleswig-Holstein in Northern Germany, an influential region in technology. At ……. |
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Hexion Introduces “VeoVa House” Virtual Showroom to Highlight Versatility of VeoVa Monomers’ |
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Manufacturers of polymeric binders, coatings, adhesives and concrete additives looking to improve the performance and sustainability of their products have a new, easy-to-navigate online platform to browse and request information and support. Designed like a contemporary home, Hexion’s virtual VeoVa House (veovahouse.hexion.com), which launches today, features call-outs to VeoVa vinyl ester applications, advantages, data sheets and other customer resources. VeoVa monomers are the vinyl esters ……. |
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Application Development |
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Salewa’s New Hiking Boot Features Thermoplastic Composites |
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Salewa’s (Bolzano, Italy) new ultralight, crampon-compatible mountain boot, the Ortles Couloir, weighs only 725 grams. The boot is named after the Ortles Mountain, the highest peak of the Rhaetian Alps. Salewa’s Ortles Couloir will be available in stores beginning in fall 2021. The boot includes thermoplastic composites from Xenia Materials (Mussolente, Italy). According to Salewa, the toecap is produced on a polymeric base reinforced with carbon fiber. This carbon solution was designed to o ……. |
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Siemens Gamesa Pioneers Wind Circularity: Launch of World’s First Recyclable Wind Turbine Blade for Commercial Use Offshore |
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Siemens Gamesa (Zamudio, Spain) reported the launch of RecyclableBlade, which it says is the world’s first recyclable wind turbine blade ready for commercial use offshore. According to the company, the blades are manufactured from multiple reinforcement materials — in the same IntegralBlade manufacturing process as Siemens Gamesa’s other blades — combined with a new resin that has been designed to dissolve in a reportedly mild, efficient recycling process at the end of the blade’s service lif ……. |
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Quebec Composites Development Center Installs Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) Capability |
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The Centre de development des composites du Quebec (CDCQ) at Cage Saint-Jerome (Quebec, Canada) has installed an automated fiber placement (AFP) robotic cell developed by automation specialist Effman (Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada) with the help of the FANUC robot and AFP head from Addcomposites (Espoo, Finland). The AFP technology enables layup of complex parts or preforms to be fabricated with aligned continuous fibers and very little manual labor. This new technology is intended to be accessible ……. |
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Technology Development |
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SUPREM Boosts Thermoplastic Towpreg Technology |
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Suprem is boosting its thermoplastic towpreg technology to support large scale automated additive manufacturing of composite parts. Machinery and process innovations have been industrialized to produce important quantity of high and constant quality unidirectional Tapes and Profiles. Suprem’s continuous fiber reinforced thermoplastic Tapes and Profiles are dedicated to: – Tape winding for making pipes and tanks with high burst pressure – Tape placement of parts with in-situ consolidation – ……. |
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Markforged Releases Eiger Fleet to Scale Additive Manufacturing |
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At RAPID + TCT 2021, Markforged, creator of the integrated metal and carbon fiber additive manufacturing platform, The Digital Forge, informed Eiger Fleet, a cloud-based software solution designed to accelerate the adoption of additive manufacturing operations at scale. Eiger Fleet helps to transform additive manufacturing from a small scale operation to a large globally-connected, distributed manufacturing fleet by giving organizations a secure, cloud-connected and centralized source of control ……. |
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New Reports in Composites Market Published By Lucintel |
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- Growth Opportunities in Global Composites Market, July 2021
- Growth Opportunities in the Global Thermoplastic Unidirectional Tape Market, July 2021
- Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, July 2021
- Glass Fiber Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, July 2021
- Vinyl Ester Resin Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, July 2021
- Growth Opportunities in the Global Composite Rebar Market, July 2021
- Growth Opportunities in the Global CNG Tank Market, July 2021
- Vacuum Bagging Material Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, July 2021
- Carbon Fiber Textile Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, July 2021
- Pultrusion Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, February 2021
- Prepreg Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, January 2021
- Composites Distributor Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, January 2021
- MENA Composites Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, October 2020
- FRP Panel Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, May 2020
- Technology Landscape, Trends and Opportunities in 3D Printing Material Market, March 2020
- High Performance Nylon for Tribology Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, March 2020
- European Automotive Composites Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, March 2020
- Carbon Fiber Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, February 2020
- Composites Materials in Tooling Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, January 2020
- Composites Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, January 2020
- Flame Retardant Resin in E&E Composites Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, January 2020
- Carbon Fiber in the Aerospace and Defense Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, January 2020
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Price Movement |
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Impossible Objects Radically Reduces Prices with High-Performance 3D Printed Composite PEEK Products at PA12 Prices |
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Impossible Objects will present its latest 3D printing advancement at RAPID + TCT 2021 to help manufacturers produce high-performance products: PEEK 3D printed products at radically lower costs. Impossible Objects, which developed the revolutionary composite-based additive manufacturing (CBAM) process, has now radically reduced the cost of PEEK products, making them available at the price of conventional PA12 prices and saving up to 80 percent from product costs, said Robert Swartz, chairman an ……. |
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TPI Composites, Inc. Announces Second Quarter 2021 Earnings Results – Delivers Double-Digit Top Line Growth in a Challenging Operating Environment |
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TPI Composites, Inc., the only independent manufacturer of composite wind blades with a global footprint, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2021. Highlights: For the quarter ended June 30, 2021: Net sales of $458.8 million Net loss of $39.8 million or ($1.08) per diluted share EBITDA of $4.3 million Adjusted EBITDA of $17.4 million ……. |
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Awards and Certification |
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FAA Approves G-1 Certification Basis for Archer, for Composite All-Electric Vertical Takeoff and Landing (Evtol) Aircraft |
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Archer Aviation (Palo Alto, Calif., U.S.) has an agreement with the United States Air Force (USAF) to work together to explore the technical readiness and suitability of its composite all-electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, Maker, for USAF purposes. Archer is also working towards achieving FAA Type Certification for its eVTOL. Archer will provide the USAF and the AFWERX Agility Prime Office with data from upcoming flight tests to further the USAF’s understanding of its eVT ……. |
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Fort ORD Works Receives AS9100D, ISO 9001:2015 Quality Certifications for Standardized Quality Management System for the Aerospace Industry |
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Fort ORD Works (FOW, Marina, Calif., U.S.) has reported that it has achieved both AS9100D and ISO 9001:2015 quality certifications. FOW has received these certifications through its registrar, International Standards Authority Inc. (ISA, Corona, Calif., U.S.). International Standards Authority audit earned through the company’s commitment to quality and compliance to stringent internal procedures for the development of high-performance composite structures. “We are very proud to have achiev ……. |
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Events |
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Lucintel is attending CAMX 2021 |
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CAMX – the Composites and Advanced Materials Expo- is the largest composites and advanced materials event in North America. This year it’s the only in-person event of its kind. CAMX will be held at the Kay B. Hutchison Convention Center in Dallas, Texas and will offer the latest technical information and networking events with industry peers. This year’s keynote speaker is 1. Gregory (Greg) M. Ulmer, Executive Vice President (EVP) of Aeronautics, Lockheed Martin Corporation. Join CAMX 20 ……. |
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CAMX 2021 |
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Exhibition: October 19-21, 2021 |
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Dallas, TX, USA
Kay B. Hutchison Convention Center |
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Program and Registration: CAMX 2021 |
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People |
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ENGEL Appoints New Managing Director in Mexico |
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Emilio Lopez has been appointed as the new Managing Director of ENGEL de Mexico SA de CV. He succeeds Peter Auinger, who retired on 1st September 2021. He will aim to consolidate after-sales services while expanding the training programme for clients in Mexico and other Latin American nations. Mexico is ENGEL’s largest Latin American market, offering significant potential across all target sectors. Demand is rising particularly strongly for all-electric injection molding machines and dual- ……. |