Latest Industry News

Norco GRP has opened its purpose built Advanced Composites Facility in Poole, Dorset, UK, as part of its ongoing expansion strategy.

Two papers featuring work conducted within Natex, a project which included NetComposites as a partner, will be given at the 1st International Conference on Natural Fibers (ICNF) 2013.

Sandwich panels designed and supplied by Barracuda Advanced Composites of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, have been implemented in the form of theatre acoustic coverage surroundings.

The 16th annual GO Carbon Fiber conference will be taking place from 8 – 10 October in Seattle, US.

Sales in the Brazilian composites industry have increased by 5.2% compared to the first quarter of the previous year totalling US$ 382 million.

Alex Hull’s Split Chair, engineered by URT, was shown at the 2013 Paris Art and Design (PAD) exhibition.

The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering’s (SAMPE) International Board of Directors has created a new SAMPE Global Board of Directors and a new SAMPE North American Board of Directors.

Cytec will be exhibiting its range of composite and process materials on stand number D51 at All-Energy 2013, which is being held in the Aberdeen Exhibition & Conference Centre, Aberdeen, UK, on 22 - 23 May.

PPG Fiber Glass has sold its 50 percent interest in the PPG Devold fibre glass joint venture to Hexagon Devold, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hexagon Composites.

Triumph Group has acquired Primus Composites from Precision Castparts.

Northern Composites will serve as the Eastern US representative for TenCate on a new line of 3M Tooling Prepregs.

URT Group are working as an official technical partner on the Bloodhound SSC land speed record project and will spend more than 1,000 hours building the car’s carbon fibre monocoque structure, which houses the cockpit and front sub-frame, as well as its nosecone, air intake and seat.

AOC and ECS Environmental Solutions worked together to create an integral part of the city of Austin’s complex wastewater infrastructure project.

Hexagon Composites has received its largest North American TITAN order to date, supplying lightweight composite TITAN gas transportation modules to Xpress Natural Gas in the US.

epm: technology group are very proud to have hosted a VIP visitor, the honourable Mr. George Osborne - Chancellor of the Exchequer.

5D Composite claim that their patent pending technology allows them to produce products impossible to fabricate by any other existing known technology.

Sika Deutschland has introduced a new fire retardant epoxy resin system, Biresin CR134FR, into the composites market.

According to Hexcel, the A350 XWB which is the first Airbus with a structure that is more than 50% composites, is now ready for take off

CDI (Century Design) will be showcasing its new CD6012 prepreg machine at SAMPE 2013.