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4th Oct 2019

The Center for Nanotechnology and Technical, Functional and Intelligent Materials (CeNTI) in Portugal is leading a consortium that brings together eight partners from five European countries and with a funding of around €3.2 million from the European Union (EU) to develop functional textiles and cosmetics with incorporation of natural base nanocapsules.

4th Oct 2019

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has granted $1.5 million to an Ohio University professor to develop engineered composite decking boards from coal. Industry partners are providing an additional $500,000 in funding. Manufacturing coal-based composites requires less energy, and results in lower costs and emissions than manufacturing wood plastic...

4th Oct 2019

Archroma, a global leader in colour and specialty chemicals towards sustainable solutions, will be at Techtextil India at the Bombay Exhibition Center, Mumbai, from November 20-22, to present its latest innovations and system solutions aimed to help technical textile manufacturers in India with optimised productivity and/or value creation in their...

4th Oct 2019

Gurit is in process of implementing a multi-year plant renewal, manufacturing capacity expansion and technology enhancement programme over a single-digit million amount in CHF at its aerospace site in Kassel. This will enable it to offer aerospace customers required quantities of current and future products at competitive terms made with latest...

3rd Oct 2019

Vision Systems is participating in Clean Sky 2 European research programme with Airbus Helicopters, to develop RACER (Rapid and Cost-Effective Rotorcraft). Vision Systems is developing two composite jettisonable window frames for the cockpit, and one for the cabin, all three windows equipped with its X-Lite composite glass, and a composite electric...

3rd Oct 2019

UTComp, a leader in composite materials inspection and engineering, has launched QCAnalytix, the world's first fully automated in-line inspection solution for composite fabrication and manufacturing. QCAnalytix ensures the strength and reliability of composite materials and products used in sectors as oil and gas, chemical processing, mining, pulp and...

3rd Oct 2019

The ThermoPlastic composites Research Centre (TPRC) in Enschede will celebrate its tenth anniversary on October 8, 2019 at the University of Twente with a conference on 'The Future of Thermoplastic Composites'. The conference will reflect on the most important milestones of the consortium, the future, and the applications of thermoplastic composites.

3rd Oct 2019

Shape Machining Ltd has promoted Ryan Muller to the position of managing director. Shape provides engineering, design, tooling and manufacturing services in a wide range of industries sectors that use carbon fibre with extensive in-house manufacturing and R&D facilities that allow a wide range of projects to be delivered right first time and on time.

3rd Oct 2019

Upcoming edition of JEC Asia 2019 to be held from November 13-15 in Seoul, South Korea, will feature a conference programme with experts from the composites industry giving their insights on latest developments in high-performance composite technologies and applications, and challenges different application industries will face in future.