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Events Calendar 2020
- 28-29 April 2020 Manchester
- 12-14 May 2020 0
- 3-4 June 2020 Berlin
- 18-20 June 2020 Rome
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19th December 2019
BMW hits half a million
The BMW X3 will become the company’s first vehicle available with four different drive train variants – efficient diesel, petrol, plug-in hybrid and pure electric.
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10th December 2019
A shared spirit of discovery in Dresden
The conference was primarily a showcase for Germany’s highly interlinked research institute network
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13th November 2019
Composites focus for the BTMA
Most composite technologies that have emerged from BTMA members are now far in advance of those traditionally associated with textiles.
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2nd October 2019
A big role for biocomposites in plastics reduction
Biocomposites can help companies to reduce plastics in a range of products, without compromising performance or processability.
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25th September 2019
Clouds over Europe
After six consecutive years of growth, the European market for glass fibre composites is stagnating and construction and infrastructure will overtake transportation as its major market segment for the first time in 2019.
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27th August 2019
Reflecting on success in aerospace
To mark National Composites Week, Hexcel has outlined how it helped to propel the future of flight by reducing the weight of aerospace structures.
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2nd August 2019
Where next for bioplastics and biocomposites?
The need for bio-based alternatives to our current plastics appears pretty obvious, with an annual 400 million tons currently produced.
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4th July 2019
A growing emphasis on composites at ITMA 2019
The technologies of the 1,717 exhibitors from 45 countries on display are employed in producing a wide range of fibre-based products.
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11th June 2019
CNTs from household ingredients
Researchers at MIT have found that baking soda, table salt, and detergent are surprisingly effective ingredients for cooking up carbon nanotubes.
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23rd May 2019
Bright prospects for reinforcements underlined at Techtextil 2019
At Techtextil 2019 in Frankfurt, van Delden presented new figures putting the world market for technical textiles at EUR 159 billion in 2018.
Latest Comments
Biocomposite of the Year 2019 award announces nominees
Display Name 24th October 2019, 10:21AMtest IC
Hyosung plans world’s largest carbon fibre plant
Echo 2nd September 2019, 10:24AMI wonder where all those people will stand while the (hopefully fully automatic) machines are running..?
ICRACM-2019
anang desai 5th November 2018, 04:26AMpl inform venu in varanasi and i would like to attend the event
A new raw material from the ocean?
[email protected] 14th September 2018, 18:26PMAfter the millions tons of plastic pseudo-islands, in ocean to create a false food to marine fauna, the gift a a new material from ocean, made from alga fibers is indeed a generous gift that nature provides to the plastic and textile technology of reinforcement! Welcome!
Scaling-up carbon fibres to move the needle for automotive
[email protected] 14th September 2018, 17:50PMThe recent achievement at ORNL is a positive challenge to CF technology. The potential of the the benefits of THE INNOVATIVE technology with the low cost of textile fiber has the potential to cut the manufacturing cost by 50% open THE HIGH SERIES markets VIA the atmospheric plasma oxidation technology developed by ORNL and RMX Technologies and adds to the evolution of CN carbonization to other chains provided by proper lignine sources, capable to spin at few thousands m/min... It takes time and convincing strong technologies.