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24th Jun 2019

Yanfeng Automotive Interiors (YFAI) and Prisma Renewable Composites have entered into an agreement giving YFAI exclusive use of Prisma’s lignin-based material – Biolan – in the development of automotive interiors. Biolan is a sustainable alternative to Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) plastic, which is used broadly in the automotive industry.

22nd Jun 2019

Stratasys, a global leader in additive manufacturing or 3D printing technology, is deepening its partnership with Boom Supersonic – the Colorado-based company building history’s fastest supersonic airliner. In signing a seven-year agreement extension, the companies are further accelerating adoption of additive manufacturing for 3D-printed flight...

22nd Jun 2019

Michelman is currently showing its portfolio of fibre sizing solutions that help industry exploit benefits of composites: design freedom, consolidation of parts, functionality integration while meeting lightweighting goals at the JEC Forum Chicago conference. The fibre sizings are available for variety of application types and improve fibre-polymer...

21st Jun 2019

Switzerland's Pilatus Aircraft company has developed the new Pilatus PC-24 business jet with state-of-the-art Zund digital cutting system. Zund is a business engaged in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of multifunctional digital cutters for graphics, packaging, textile and leather industries, as well as in technical textiles and...

21st Jun 2019

FACC, the leading Austrian and globally active technology partner of the global aerospace industry, is establishing a new high-tech composite facility in Croatia with investments of around 30 million euros. The new facility will manufacture lightweight cabin components for commercial and business aircraft using state-of-the-art fibre composite...

21st Jun 2019

Beijing Institute of Technology is using AnalySwift's SwiftComp simulation software for working on new composite materials as part of the company's Academic Partner Programme. The university's projects will use the software in the simulation of 2D woven fibre-reinforced polymer-based, ceramic-based, and sandwich structure composites at elevated...

21st Jun 2019

IACMI - the Composites Institute took part in the US Department of Energy's Advanced Manufacturing Summit at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), the third in the Innovation XLab series, which features the assets and innovations of the national laboratories across the US. The institute presented its ability to support connections between ORNL and...

21st Jun 2019

Dutch company IME Medical Electrospinning has developed revolutionary MediSpin XL platform for large-scale industrial production of reproducible and scalable fibre-based scaffolds for Class I, II and III medical devices. The platform ensures control of the crucial parameters of the electrospinning process, leading to identical and consistent...

21st Jun 2019

GKN Aerospace has announced commissioning of a second additive manufacturing cell (Cell 2) at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Cell 2 is world’s largest pilot production cell of its kind and is the next stage in GKN’s additive manufacturing research and development targeting large scale structural aircraft...