British company Prodrive Composites (Milton Keynes, UK) is known for design and manufacture of advanced lightweight structural and non-structural composites for a wide range of applications across the ...

The next decisive step in the production of large structural components from thermoplastic composites for use in aerospace has been achieved. Using their enhanced Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) ...

This high strength toughened epoxy system that has a flexible cure envelope ranging from 135°C to 200°C. It has been developed to enable rapid part manufacture through a number of composite processing ...

Three companies collaborated on an automated process for producing large thermoplastic parts at high-speed deposition rates of up to 4,000 inches (100 meters) per minute. The joint development comes ...

Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a method to produce aerospace-grade composites without the enormous ovens and pressure vessels currently used in the process ...

Boeing’s next innovation in composites could render autoclaves obsolete, says Boeing chairman Jim McNerney. The epoxy resin within the composite structures that comprise the fuselage of the 787 and ...

Hoffman, who invented the SET process, received his bachelor's degree in physics from Moravian College (Bethlehem, PA), and his master's degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer. Kuppers, who ...

Australia-based composites manufacturer Quickstep has made the first sale of its out-of-autoclave carbon composite curing system. Quickstep says that it has secured a €4.5 million ($5.5 million) ...

Airplane wings and wind turbine blades are typically created using bulk polymerization in composite manufacturing facilities. They are heated and cured in enormous autoclaves and heated molds as big ...

Flexible, adaptable, customizable: The MarkOne’s continuous fiber-reinforced output includes soft-jaw fixtures for machining (top left), pulleys with press fit bearings and nylon outer shells for wear ...