Toray signs new NCC R&D partnership agreement Toray Advanced Composites has signed a tier 1 membership agreement with the National Composites Centre (NCC), to use the facilities and capabilities of the Centre as part of its R&D…
Solvay expands US aerospace thermoplastic composites capacity Solvay is expanding its thermoplastic composites capacity with a new production line at its US facility in Anaheim, California, underscoring its commitment to meeting strong demand growth from aerospace customers…
PEEK at 40 As PEEK comes of age, the high-performance polymer offers huge potential for the aerospace sector. That aircraft must inevitably be made of metal is a myth hard to dispel, but…
Teijin to Supply Tenax CFRTP intermediate material for Boeing Teijin has announced that its Tenax carbon fibre and carbon fibre thermoplastic unidirectional pre-impregnated tape (Tenax TPUD) were qualified by Boeing and registered in its qualified products list. Teijin will…
Web Industries to highlight custom-formatted thermoplastic composites at JEC Web Industries’ Aerospace division will highlight its world-class capabilities in the formatting of flexible thermoplastic composite materials for next-generation aerospace applications at JEC World 2019, March 12-14, Paris. At the…
Fast paced thermoplastics Ed Hill hears from Quadrant about the latest developments of its thermoplastic composites for aerospace interiors. The use of composite/plastic materials for aircraft interior applications has grown over the years…
TenCate celebrates Brazilian consortium for innovation in aerospace TenCate Advanced Composites, part of the Toray Group, today marks the assembly of the São Paulo Initiative on Research on Innovative Thermoplastic Composites Solutions (SPIRIT) consortium in São José dos…
Farnborough Airshow 2018: TenCate Advanced Composites Aerospace Manufacturing magazine caught up with TenCate Advanced Composites' global director, product and marketing strategy, John Darlington to find out more about the company's involvement in the aerospace industry.
Join with us! Mike Richardson meets with GKN Fokker’s head of thermoplastics R&D, Arnt Offringa to hear more about the company’s revolutionary induction welding process technologies that are helping to reduce the amounts…
The ultimate design opportunity arrives! Hexcel took to the JEC World event to display an increasing array of additive manufacturing product innovations for a host of aerospace component-related applications. Mike Richardson reports. Among the…
Disrupting the composite tooling supply chain With traditional composite tooling manufacture acknowledged as being an extremely lengthy and costly process, Tim Schniepp, senior director of composite solutions at Stratasys, looks at why the use of additive…
CMS and Fraunhofer IWU to develop new large hybrid 3D printer CMS and Fraunhofer IWU have announced a R&D partnership, focused on the development of a new hybrid system for the 3D printing and machining of thermoplastic composite parts. The new…
