nylon news

3rd Dec 2020

Scientists at the Skoltech Centre for Design, Manufacturing and Materials have created multifunctional materials by adding carbon nanoparticles to polymer matrices, which allow self-diagnostic monitoring. The work is part of a multiphase project, designed to create self-sensing materials which can be produced using existing industrial manufacturing...

2nd Dec 2020

Addcomposites’ plug-n-produce platform, the AFP-XS, is now in operation at Compositadour, a French technological platform specialising in advanced manufacturing. This will increase the access to advanced composites manufacturing to a wider industry. Compositadour has been working to expand use of advanced composites beyond the aerospace sector.

2nd Dec 2020

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of technology have found a way to pattern hundreds-of-metres-long multimaterial fibres with embedded functional elements. Multimaterial fibres that integrate metal, glass and semiconductors will be useful in biomedicine, smart textiles and robotics. But, positioning functional elements has been difficult.

1st Dec 2020

NAWA Technologies, pioneer of energy storage systems based on vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNT), has set up NAWA America, a new US-based company focused on industrialising advanced composite materials. Based in Dayton, Ohio, NAWA America will bring multifunctional ultra-strong composites to market, and widen the range of their applications.

1st Dec 2020

Lucy Houchin, director of corporate marketing for IDI Composites International (IDI) and Norplex-Micarta has been appointed to the board of directors of the American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA). ACMA provides information to the composites industry, lobby for the composites industry, and develops and expands markets for composite...

1st Dec 2020

Ferguson has taken over Atlantic Construction Fabrics, a geotextile company operating along the East coast. ACF adds a large geographic footprint along the East Coast and additional geotextile capabilities, diversifying Ferguson’s waterworks business and complementing its existing customer offering in geosynthetics, erosion control and stormwater...

30th Nov 2020

The global composites industry has been resilient and shows strong adaptability during the COVID-19-induced crisis, says a survey by Explori, an audience listening platform of the JEC Group. On a global scale, the composites industry has resisted much the impact of COVID-19 and one out of two companies remains optimistic about the future, the survey...

30th Nov 2020

The Utah Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Initiative (UAMMI) has joined hands with the Graphene Council, the largest trade and professional society for research, development and application of graphene and related advanced materials, in a deal. The two organisations will proactively build joint research projects relating to advanced...

30th Nov 2020

Bindatex Advanced Material Cutting has been selected for an Innovate UK grant of approximately £100,000 from the Sustainable Innovation Fund. The grant is meant to support a critical six-month R and D project to develop and upscale its highly innovative 1mm wide slitting capability for next generation composite parts manufacturing technology.