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| Composite Star 2.0 Free to Download |
 The new version of Composite Star, the popular database and design software for composite materials, is now available. |
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| Final Assembly Begins on Fifth Boeing 787 Dreamliner |
 Final assembly began last week on the third flight-test airplane for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. |
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| Gulf Composite Materials Develops VE Prepreg Pipe-Joining Process |
 Gulf Composite Materials of Dubai, U.A.E., has developed a new method for joining composite pipes using heat-activated prepreg. |
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| GB Wins Gold on Bikes Engineered with ACG Technology |
 Advanced Composites Group has played its part in the GB cycling team’s success at the 2008 UCI World Track Cycling World Championships, in Manchester, UK. |
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| Bluewater 16 inch Composite Cryogenic Hose Passes Type Approval Tests |
| Bluewater Energy Service, has announced that the type approval programme of the 16 inch Composite Cryogenic Hose has been completed successfully, following the type approval of the 8 inch hose which was already announced earlier this year. |
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| Owens Corning Completes Sale of Composite Manufacturing Plants |
| Owens Corning has completed the sale of two composite manufacturing plants, located in Battice, Belgium, and Birkeland, Norway, to Platinum Equity |
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| Interplastic Introduces COR-Grip Brand Putties and Adhesives |
| Interplastic Corporation has newly branded its line of putty and adhesive products as COR-Grip. |
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| Hexcel Opens First Carbon Fibre Plant in Spain |
 Hexcel opened its first European carbon fibre plant at the end of April, a special ceremony attended by over 200 people. |
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| Metyx Composites Signs Distributorship Agreement with Alcan Airex |
 Metyx Composites became an exclusive distributor of Alcan Airex products in Turkey as of January 2008. |
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| Air Force to Provide Funding for Polyimide Prepreg Material Qualification |
 The U.S. Air Force Research Lab is funding the qualification of a non-methylenedianiline (MDA) polyimide material for use in both airframe and engine applications. |
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| Ashland Introduces New Envirez Resins for General Laminating and Infusion |
| Two new Envirez renewably-sourced unsaturated polyester resins are now available from Ashland Composite Polymers. |
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| Quickstep Joint Venture with Vortex for Composite Pipes |
| Quickstep and Australian-based Vortex Pipes have joined forces to develop and market a new generation of high-strength, corrosion resistant pipes to be manufactured using Quickstep’s manufacturing process. |
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| ComPoLyX Finite Element Post-Processing for Composite Structures |
 Evolutionary Engineering has released ComPoLyX, a post-processing tool for composite parts and sandwich panels with the possibility of evaluating interlaminar normal stresses from layered shell finite elements. |
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| The First Staubli Unival for Carbon Fibre |
 Sigmatex has installed a Staubli Unival 100 Jacquard machine, this being the first of its kind used in the manufacture of Carbon Fibre fabrics. |
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| New Fibreglass Factory in Saudi Arabia |
| Glass Fiber Technology has started commercial production in the first fibreglass factory on the west coast of Saudi Arabia. |
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| UT Dallas and Brazilian Researchers Discover New Properties for Nanotube Sheets |
 A team of nanotechnologists at The University of Texas at Dallas, along with Brazilian collaborators, have discovered that sheets of carbon nanotubes can produce bizarre mechanical properties when stretched or uniformly compressed. |
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| Comfort Line Ltd winner of Rome 2008 Pultrusion Innovation Award |
 Comfort Line Ltd. USA has won the Rome 2008 Pultrusion Innovation Award with their SunSuite Sunroom. |
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| Boeing Moves 787 Dreamliner Static Test Airframe to Testing Rig |
 Boeing moved the 787 Dreamliner static test airframe from its Final Assembly facility in Everett to its structural test rig last Friday. |
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| Concordian Wins NanoQuebec’s First Nano-Academia Award |
 Concordia University’s Dr. Suong Van Hoa has been awarded the inaugural Nano-Academia Award by NanoQuebec. |
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| Owens Corning to Increase Glass Fibre Reinforcement Capacity |
| Owens Corning will further invest in the composite materials industry in the Americas by expanding glass fibre reinforcement capacity at its Amarillo, Texas, facility in 2008. |
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| DSM Plans Largest Investment Program Ever for Dyneema |
| Royal DSM plans a substantial capital expenditure program, expected to involve up to USD 450 million, to increase production capacity in its Dyneema business. |
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| Maine Composites Firm Wins $12M Navy Deal |
| Maine Secure Composites LLC has landed a $12 million contract from the U.S. Navy to develop and build more secure cargo containers. |
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| Special-Lite to Market Hurricane-Resistant Door in Coastal States |
 Special-Lite has launched a concentrated effort to sell a hurricane-resistant fiberglass-reinforced polyester (FRP) door in states along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States. |
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| Glass Fiber Technology Signs Agent Agreement with Arkema |
| GFT has been chosen for distribution of Arkema’s peroxides for the unsaturated polyester resin market in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. |
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| ZCL Composites Inc. Signs Major Contract Extension |
| ZCL Composites has been awarded a three-year contract extension by Petro-Canada for the supply of fibreglass tanks and related products for use in its operations across Canada. |
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| Alcan Composites opens new Chinese Conversion Plant |
 On April 18 the new Conversion plant of Alcan Composites Core Materials Shanghai was officially inaugurated with the presence of local officials and the management of Alcan Composites and Alcan Engineered Products, Asia. |
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| M.C. Gill Corporation Receives Boeing Supplier of the Year Award |
| M.C. Gill Corporation has been honoured as one of Boeing’s Top Suppliers for 2007. |
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| Angstron Introduces Low Cost Nanomaterial |
| Angstron Materials LLC has developed a new alternative to nanotubes, called nano-graphene platelets (NGPs). |
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| Grieve Installs Combination Airflow Jumbo Walk-In Oven |
 Grieve has installed an electrically-heated, 350ºF (~176ºC) jumbo combination walk-in oven, used for curing composite parts at their customer’s facility. |
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