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Composites Market Insights, January 24, 2022 |
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Click the Headlines below for more detail on the news article. News articles are divided into sections such as “Business Development”, “Application Development”, “Financial”, “Price Movement”, “Awards and Certifications”, “Events”, “People”, and “Others” |
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Business Development |
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Composites Evolution Expands Evopreg Range |
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Composites Evolution has launched a new range of unidirectional thermoplastic tapes, to sit alongside its existing line-up of Evopreg prepregs. Marketing Director, Ben Hargreaves, explains, “Lightweighting is a key enabling technology for a number of markets – particularly transport-related ones such as battery electric vehicles, hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, eVTOL passenger vehicles and drones. These are all, potentially, high-volume applications that demand short production cycle times. Evopreg ……. |
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DockYard Composites— Sicomin’s New Swedish Distributor |
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As part of the latest expansion to its global distributor network, Sicomin has appointed DockYard Composites as its new Swedish distributor. Effective immediately, DockYard Composites will provide Sicomin materials from inventory, along with experienced composite technical support, for customers throughout Sweden. Based in Sollentuna, just North of Stockholm, DockYard Composites are a newly-established composites supplier offering a broad range of composite materials, consumables, and equipm ……. |
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MakerBot Strengthens METHOD Materials Portfolio with LEHVOSS Group’s New Composites |
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MakerBot, a Stratasys company, is expanding its offering of advanced engineering materials for the MakerBot METHOD 3D printing platform with the addition of three new LUVOCOM 3F materials from LEHVOSS Group. This brings the number of METHOD materials up to 30, giving customers an even wider selection of manufacturing-grade materials with which to explore. LUVOCOM 3F PAHT 9825 NT, LUVOCOM 3F PAHT CF 9891 BK, and LUVOCOM 3F PET CF 9780 BK are available to use with the MakerBot LABS GEN 2 Experi ……. |
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SAVA Introduces E-Flash – Lightest Carbon Fiber E-Gravel Bike for All-Terrain Riding |
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SAVA, a German registered company known for innovative bicycle design, has launched their latest: SAVA E-Flash the Lightest Carbon Fiber E-Gravel Bike for all-terrain riding, daily commuting, and outdoor adventures. Highly responsive and lightweight, SAVA E-Flash is designed for comfort, stability and efficiency. Its carbon fiber construction offers extreme lightweight performance at only 11kg total weight. The carbon fiber frame & fork also make it easy to pick up and carry when needed, somethi ……. |
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Application Development |
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Internally Lined with Epoxy Flow Coat, EUROPIPE Pipes Ready for 100% Hydrogen Application |
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EUROPIPE’s L485 (X70) pipes with epoxy-coated interior have been proven an excellent option for transportation of 100% hydrogen. According to the publication, the pipes are suitable for future ASME B31.12 standard build hydrogen pipelines. Based on a preliminary test, steel was more than the properties assumed in a 100-bar pure hydrogen atmosphere standard. The epoxy’s internal flow coating offers well-known benefits during the installation and the gas pipelines’ operations. During EUROPIPE’s ……. |
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Financial |
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Velocity Composites Releases Final Results for Year Ended 31st October 2021 |
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Velocity Composites plc released its audited results for the twelve months to 31 October 2021. Financial Highlights: • Revenue of GBP 9.8 million (2020: GBP 13.6 million) reflecting suppressed civil aircraft OEM volume productions because of COVID • Gross margin improved 8.9% to 26.0% (2020: 17.1%) due to proactive management of previously written down stock, and investment in Velocity’s nesting technology • Operating loss reduced to GBP 1.4 million (2020: loss of GBP 3.1 million) • Ful ……. |
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Price Movement |
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Allnex Raises Price of Phenolic Resins, Globally |
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Effective February 1, 2022, allnex is globally raising prices of all its phenolic resins, following continued significant increases in raw material, energy, packaging and logistics prices. PHENODUR prices will be increased up to 0.50 euro/kg. ALNOVOL prices will be increased up to 0.35 euro/kg. ALPEX prices will be increased up to 0.70 euro/kg Deviations might be possible on a case-by-case basis. The increase will be applicable on all shipments as of February 1, 2022, or as contrac ……. |
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Price Hike by allnex on Amino Resins in Europe, Middle East & Africa |
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Effective February 1, 2022, allnex will implement a price increase on all its amino crosslinking resins in Europe, Middle East and Africa, following continued significant raw material, energy, packaging and logistics cost increases. Depending on the grade and product family, prices will be increased up to 0.40 euro/kg. Deviations might be possible on a case-by-case basis. The declared increases will be applicable on all shipments as of February 1, 2022, or as contracts allow. ……. |
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Awards and Certifications |
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SPE Grand Award 2021 for BMW and ENGEL’s Innovative Application on the Vehicle Exterior |
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The BMW Group has launched a new ENGEL production unit at its Landshut production plant. The kidney-shaped badge for the electric BMW iX is produced in a cleanroom atmosphere. Both the BMW Group and ENGEL are breaking completely new ground here, prompting the International Society for Plastics Technology (SPE Central Europe) to honor the application with the SPE Grand Award 2021. In an integrated process, a heatable functional film is back-molded with polycarbonate and flood-coated with polyure ……. |
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Tongsuh Petrochemical, Asia’s First Acrylonitrile Manufacturer to Get ISCC PLUS Certification |
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Asahi Kasei informed that Tongsuh Petrochemical Corp., Ltd. (TSPC), a wholly owned subsidiary in South Korea, acquired the widely recognized international certification ISCC PLUS1 for its acrylonitrile (AN) as a sustainable product, and production of AN using biomass propylene is scheduled to begin in February 2022. AN is used as a raw material to make ABS resin, acrylamide, acrylic fiber, and various other chemical products. Recent demand growth has been particularly robust in the applicatio ……. |
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Events |
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MarineAM Returns and Calls for Papers |
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With a bigger and better venue, MarineAM 2022 is looking for industry innovators and thought leaders to bring its program alive. Taking place on June 15th and 16th, 2022 at Southampton FC, the two-day conference focuses on advanced materials for the marine sector. Advanced Materials have been used across the marine sector for decades. MarineAM will give participants the opportunity to learn about the latest innovations, advancements and projects all taking advantage of advanced materials with ……. |
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Toray Group Presented at the 9th Annual Electric VTOL Symposium in San Jose |
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The Toray Group exhibited and presented at the Vertical Flight Society’s 9th Annual Electric VTOL Symposium in San Jose, California on January 25 – 27. The event invites leaders from various eVTOL segments to discuss the emerging aeromechanics challenges and solutions for future VTOL aircraft, encompassing dynamics, aerodynamics, acoustics, and flight mechanics. This hybrid event includes three in-person tracks that will also be live-streamed to remote attendees. Toray presented on Wednesday, ……. |
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People |
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Solidia Technologies Names Amitabha Kumar, Ph.D., Senior Vice President of R&D |
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Solidia Technologies named construction materials industry leader and innovator Amitabha Kumar, Ph.D., Senior vice president of Research and Development. He is an award-winning scientist, technologist, and silica expert, who brings to Solidia over 30 years of experience in commercialization and R&D, helping lead the development of new processes and materials using cements, ceramics, composites, and polymers. As senior vice president, R&D, Dr. Kumar will advance and commercialize decarbonization ……. |
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Dr. Greg M. Mellema Rejoins Abaris as Director of Operations |
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Abaris Training Resources, Inc. informed that Dr. Greg M. Mellema has rejoined the organization as Director of Operations for Abaris, worldwide (Greg was a full-time instructor at Abaris from 1998 to 2008). Dr. Mellema’s new responsibilities as Director of Operations will consist of developing new curricula as well as overseeing existing course material, professional development of faculty and staff, managing and developing strategic partnerships, overseeing day-to-day training operations, suppo ……. |
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Others |
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AMRC Works with NCC, Cranfield University, and Meggitt to Unlock Digital Potential in Composite Manufacturing |
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The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) has worked with the National Composites Centre (NCC), Cranfield University and aerospace engineering specialists, Meggitt, to develop and demonstrate a novel sensor technology for capturing data during liquid resin processes. The sensor system is a significant step toward the digitalization of resin transfer molding (RTM) by providing accurate data capture of resin infusion. Upon hearing of the successful use of the …….. |
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5 Feasibility Studies by EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Research Hub |
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The EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Hub (The Hub) has notified about the funding of five new feasibility studies, following the call for proposals issued in May 2021. Each award of GBP 50,000 will typically fund a six month project, expanding the national research effort for composites manufacturing in the UK. Proposals were invited from UK academic researchers for projects that addressed sustainability challenges for fiber reinforced composites. Titles of the successful feasibility ……. |
