CAMX 2021 exhibit preview: LEWCO Inc.

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

LEWCO Inc. demonstrates its line of industrial ovens for the composites industry, including batch ovens, composite curing ovens, conveyor ovens, field assembled ovens and drum and tote heaters.

CAMX 2021 exhibit preview: Helicoid

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Designed for toughness and impact resistance, Helicoid Industries’ biomimetic fiber distribution technology, Helicoid, enhances performance of composite parts.

CAMX 2021 preview: Ascent Aerospace

Jeff Sloan | CompositesWorld

Tooling specialist Ascent Aerospace is emphasizing recently installed capacity to produce tools, molds and fixtures via large-format additive manufacturing at its Santa Ana, Calif., U.S., location.

CAMX 2021 preview: Michelman

Jeff Sloan | CompositesWorld

Michelman, a manufacturer of advanced materials including fiber sizing and surface modifiers, is featuring its Hydrosize and Hydrosize Carbon fiber sizing solutions, and Unyte technologies for technical textiles.

CAMX 2021 exhibit preview: Airborne

Chris Pasion | CompositesWorld

Airborne’s integrated automated kitting system can pick composites plies directly from the conveyor cutter to sort, sequence and store them in a compact and fast buffer station.

Burloak Adds Capacity, Services with California Manufacturing Facility

| Additive Manufacturing

Company also forms agreement with Carpenter Technology to collaborate on future product design and development opportunities.

Desarrollan resina para imprimir piezas médicas en 3D

| Plastics Technology México

Las resinas de CSIRO no son citotóxicas, son transparentes, tienen propiedades mecánicas ajustables y son capaces de imprimir diseños complejos en alta resolución, incluyendo formas irregulares, paredes finas y estructuras huecas.

CAMX 2021 exhibit preview: Georgia-Pacific Chemicals

Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld

Georgia-Pacific presents new technologies for reducing formaldehyde in phenolic resins and enabling applications in electric vehicles and other industries.

CAMX 2021 exhibit preview: C.A. Litzler

Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld

C. A. Litzler thermoplastic prepreg machines are designed to enable lower-cost, thermoplastic prepregs for automotive and aerospace applications.

CAMX 2021 exhibit preview: Armacell

Hannah Mason | CompositesWorld

Armacell highlights its eco-friendly, recycled PET bottle ArmaPET foam solutions for composite parts in a variety of end markets.

Bucci Composites reveals 22-inch all-carbon fiber wheels for Bentley SUV

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The lighter component design — which offers weight savings of six kilograms per wheel — reduces rotational inertia, promises better vehicle handling and meets Bentley’s structural and aesthetics requirements.

MaCoIMA project to develop the potential of composites additive manufacturing

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

The MaCoIMA (Innovative Composite Materials from Additive Manufacturing) project aims to develop new composite and hybrid materials for use in high-performance sectors such as advanced mechanics and aeronautics.

Rolls-Royce expands partnership with Purdue University

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Increased commitment expands Rolls-Royce’s test facilities in the Purdue Aerospace District to develop high-altitude and hybrid-electric engines, advances Purdue’s economic development.
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Altair's 9th Enlighten Award winners feature vehicle lightweighting, sustainability

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Annual award honors advancements in reducing the carbon footprint, mitigating water and energy consumption, promoting material reuse and recycling and applying composites for lightweighting.

Technical Fibre Products opens new nonwovens manufacturing line

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

New line increases nonwoven capacity and extends TFP’s warehousing to support the increase in product and raw materials.

PCS Expands Molding Solutions Product Line with Molders Choice

| MoldMaking Technology

Molders Choice joins PCS Company to help drive the growth of the Molding Solutions product portfolio.

Improving AM’s Efficiency with Generative Design

Julia Hider | Additive Manufacturing

By engineering parts as opposed to designing them, MSC Apex Generative Design improves the efficiency of not only the final parts, but of the design and manufacturing processes as well.

Sabic lanza película TF-BOPE para empaques de alimentos congelados

María Natalia Ortega Leyva | Plastics Technology México

La colaboración de Sabic con Syntegon, Ticinoplast y Plastchim-T ofrece una nueva opción al mercado de empaques a través de un nuevo grado de PE, que permite reducir el consumo de materiales y es compatible con el reciclaje.

Atmospheric plasma jet technology rapidly pretreats glass fiber honeycomb sandwich panels

Grace Stubbins | CompositesWorld

Plasmatreat’s Openair-Plasma system provides composite honeycomb panel manufacturer, MonoPan Composites, with a reliable, high-speed and low-cost dry pretreatment solution for homogeneous wettability.

Mastercam 2022 Streamlines the Job Process

Chris Pasion | Modern Machine Shop

Eastec 2021: Mastercam 2022 adds the Unified Multiaxis toolpath, 3D High Speed Dynamic OptiRough toolpath and new mesh creation and editing capabilties.
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Haimer presenta máquinas de ajuste por contracción

| Modern Machine Shop México

Power Clamp Nano NG i4.0 se ha desarrollado para pinzas de contracción y portaherramientas pequeños.

June Real Durable Goods New Orders Second Highest Since March 2019

Steven Kline, Jr. | Gardner Intelligence

June was the fourth straight month that new orders increased more than 27%. Of course, this very strong growth rate in June was somewhat affected by slightly lower than normal new orders in June 2020 due to the economic lockdown.