The software’s purpose is to provide composite industrial players (including processors, suppliers, designers, and subcontractors) an effective and user-friendly method for resolving: run-of-the-mill ...

In this age of lightweighting vehicles to meet ever stricter Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards in the automotive industry, carbon fiber is looking to come out a big winner.

Vehicle manufacturers are aggressively adopting lightweight composite material strategies to meet requirements for increased design freedom and flexibility, high strength, stiffness and reduced ...

In mid-2011, BASF (Ludwigshafen) took another step forward on the road to plastic applications in automobile bodies and chassis by establishing its cross-divisional, multi-material Lightweight ...

Integral design and manufacture. Part consolidation is a critical outcome of the Airbus Wing of Tomorrow (WOT) program, as evidenced by this 5-meter-long multicell landing flap. Spars, fins and skin ...

Northstar has become the world's first boat manufacturer to complete production range of tenders using proprietary ...

According to MarketsandMarkets, "Automotive Composites Market by Fiber Type (Glass, Carbon), Resin Type (Thermoset, ...

Alpex Technologies (Mils bei Hall, Austria) is a small-to-medium enterprise (SME) located near Innsbruck with 50-70 employees and more than 20 years of experience in the composites industry. The ...

At the JEC Europe 2015 composites show in Paris March 10-12, many companies showcased their carbon fiber composites and related products, especially for high-volume automotive manufacturing. Last year ...

The past year has seen a lot of technology breakthroughs in engineering composites, especially those aimed at lowering cost and boosting processing speed of carbon composites for volume manufacturing, ...