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Composites Market Insights, June 15, 2021 |
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Business Development |
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Sigmatex (UK) Ltd Approved for NMCL Funding |
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With their headquarters in Runcorn, Cheshire, Sigmatex is a market leader in the design, development, and manufacture of innovative carbon fibre textiles to the composites industry. They supply carbon textiles into many sectors including Aerospace, Automotive, Renewable Energy, and Sports & Leisure. Paul McMullan, Group CEO, stated “We are delighted to have been accepted as an NMCL Automotive Programme beneficiary. This program is designed to help businesses like ours to increase capability ……. |
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Permali Conditional Acquisition by Diamorph Group Holdings Limited |
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Diamorph Group Holdings Limited has signed a conditional agreement to acquire Permali Gloucester Limited, a manufacturer of composites, predominately for the Defence sector. Diamorph is anticipating completion of the Permali acquisition within the coming months. The company has also completed the acquisition of Tufnol Composites Ltd (“Tufnol”), a Birmingham-based manufacturer of composites, predominately for the Aerospace industry on 5th March 2021. For identifying Growth Opportunities in ……. |
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Airborne Introduces Automated Preforming by Pick and Weld |
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As frontrunner in automated solutions for composites manufacturing, Airborne has developed a fully automated and flexible manufacturing process for creating composite preforms in dry fibre and thermoplastic composite: the Automated Preforming system. For many moulding processes, a tailored blank is needed and to create this preform efficiently has been a bottleneck in the industry for a long time. With the unique Airborne Preforming technology customers will have the full freedom to create any s ……. |
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Hexagon Digital Wave to Deliver Ultrasonic Examination Machine for Aerospace Industry |
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Hexagon Digital Wave, a business of Hexagon Composites signed a contract with a US based Type 3 composite cylinder manufacturer to supply Ultrasonic Examination (UE) equipment for its cylinders intended for the aerospace industry. The UE equipment will enable the testing of the interior metallic liners for structural integrity and manufacturing flaws prior to completing the composite overwrap. For identifying growth opportunities for Composites in Global Aerospace Market, please visit http:/ ……. |
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Application Development |
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Mantaro Networks Inc. Releases the OceBot, an Urban All-Terrain Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) |
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Mantaro informed that the release of the OceBot unmanned ground vehicle (UGV). The OceBot is a four-wheeled UGV with a rugged carbon fiber chassis. It is equipped with four-wheel drive and specialized wheels (patents pending) for navigation in urban terrain. The UGV can climb over obstacles and ascend or descend stairs. It comes standard with four cameras allowing 360-degree visibility of the surrounding environment. The cameras are equipped with a switchable IR filter for use in low-light situa ……. |
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Technology Development |
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GE Aviation and Safran Launch Advanced Technology Demonstration Program for Sustainable Engines; Extend CFM Partnership to 2050 |
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GE Aviation and Safran launched a bold technology development program targeting more than 20 percent lower fuel consumption and CO2 emissions compared to today’s engines. The CFM RISE (Revolutionary Innovation for Sustainable Engines) program will demonstrate and mature a range of new, disruptive technologies for future engines that could enter service by the mid-2030s. The program is being led by a joint GE/Safran engineering team that has laid out a comprehensive technology roadmap including ……. |
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GaN Wide Bandgap Semiconductor Enabling 1200V and Beyond Power Switches, Now Commercially Available for 200 mm Large Scale Manufacturing |
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The U.S. Naval Research Laboratory’s gallium nitride (GaN) wafers, also called large-area engineered substrates, can enable GaN to potentially be a displacement technology for silicon semiconductors used in microelectronics, particularly in power electronics. A typical substrate in microelectronics is a thin semiconductor crystalline disk or wafer. An engineered substrate is a composite structure consisting of polycrystalline and crystalline layers that are optimized for a good thermal expans ……. |
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Events |
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The EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub Releases recording of Optimisation of Fabric Architectures Webinar |
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The EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub (Hub) is pleased to release a recording of the webinar ‘New Manufacturing Techniques for Optimised Fibre Architectures’, that took place on Wednesday 26th May. The Hub engages academics and industry from across the UK to deliver a step-change in the production of polymer matrix composites. This webinar focused on research and development projects working towards that change and concluded with a short Q&A session. …… |
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UK’s Leading Composites, Scientific and Engineering PR Agency Celebrates 10th Birthday |
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Aro PR and Marketing is celebrating its tenth anniversary with new staff and more clients than ever before. The team of journalists, marketing experts and science writers has created a niche role helping small and medium sized high-tech engineering, composites and scientific companies raise their profiles, increase sales, and generate leads within weeks. Aro staff have an in-depth knowledge of the full range of advanced engineering industries, including; aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, ……. |
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People |
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Inger Gloersen Folkeson named as Group COO and EVP of Fiber Networks in Bulk Infrastructure |
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Bulk Infrastructure, the Nordics’ leading provider of ultra-scalable, highly connected, sustainable data centers and fiber networks, informed that the appointment of Inger Gløersen Folkeson as Chief Operating Officer, Bulk Infrastructure Group and Executive Vice President, Bulk Fiber Networks, effective August 16, 2021. Previously, Folkeson was the Chief Financial Officer at Digi Telecommunications where she led finance operations and guided strategy, business development, performance management ……. |
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Others |
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Range of TEC Talks Delivering PDH Credits |
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With many trade shows and conferences still canceled or being delivered virtually, many infrastructure rehabilitation and structural strengthening professionals are struggling to access the continuing education they need to maintain their professional development hours (PDH) requirements. GeoTree Solutions, a leading global provider of highly engineered solutions for repairing, rehabilitating, strengthening, and protecting critical infrastructure spanning the water and wastewater, oil and gas ….. |
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FACC Scholarship Holders of Upper Austrian University of Applied Sciences Wels Take Off With Self-Constructed Drone |
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As one of the world’s leading technology groups in the aerospace industry, FACC is an expert in the field of innovative lightweight components – and imparts its year-long expertise to high potentials of the future. That is something to be proud of! Students independently developed a lightweight camera drone as part of a project within the framework of the joint Lightweight Design and Composite Materials degree program, which FACC launched in cooperation with the Upper Austrian University of Appl ……. |
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IACMI ACE Training Teaches Essential Manufacturing Skills to Address U.S. Machining Workforce Gap |
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Training the nation’s next-generation machine tool workforce is continuing this summer through six in-person bootcamps in Knoxville developed by the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, or IACMI-The Composites Institute. ……. |
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New Reports in Composites Market Published By Lucintel |
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- 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
- Glass Fiber Reinforced Plastic Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, November 2019
- BMI Prepreg Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, November 2019
- Para Aramid Fiber Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, November 2019
- Epoxy Curing Agents in the Composites Industry Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, October 2019
- 3D Printing Materials Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, October 2019
- PET Foam Core Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, September 2019
- Thermoplastic Prepreg in the Transportation Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, September 2019
- Polyurethane Resin Composite Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, September 2019
- Gelcoat Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, September 2019
- Fiber Sizing Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, September 2019
- Long Fiber Thermoplastics Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, August 2019
- FRP Pole Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, August 2019
- Composite Testing Market Report: Trends, Forecast and Competitive Analysis, August 2019
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