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24th Jun 2019

ASTM International’s committee on geosynthetics presented its annual award – the Award of Merit – to Kent P von Maubeuge, director of corporate identity and corporate communication & senior product manager with Naue GmbH & Co KG. The award which includes the title of fellow, is ASTM’s highest recognition for individual contributions to developing...

24th Jun 2019

Exel Composites has decided to expand its operations in Kapfenberg, Austria, by investing in a new manufacturing facility. Special profiles like the electrical, mechanical, railway and paper machine industries are currently manufactured in the Kapfenberg facility. The construction of the new facility is expected to be completed in second half of 2020.

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

Interface Polymers has won one of the AkzoNobel ‘Paint the Future’ Awards given to innovative startups, in the ‘Enhanced Functionality’ category. Interface was shortlisted from a total of 160 submissions received by AkzoNobel in response to its initiative launched at beginning of the year to find solutions to five real-world paint and coating...

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...