The Italian-built Revolver 42 speedboat features a composite hull and deck based on vinyl ester resin and manufactured using a vacuum infusion process.
30 July 2012Amanda Jacob
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
30 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Dow Automotive Systems is expanding its composite processing expertise with the opening of development facilities in Switzerland and the USA.
27 July 2012Amanda Jacob
SABIC’s Innovative Plastics says it is "significantly boosting" capacity for its STAMAX long glass reinforced polypropylene composite at its facility in Ge
25 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Discovery Yachts' new Discovery 57 is said to feature the largest fibreglass sailing yacht hull produced by resin infusion in the UK to date.
24 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Automotive equipment supplier Faurecia has announced the acquisition of Sora Composites's automotive business, which generates annual sales of around €70 m
23 July 2012Amanda Jacob
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
23 July 2012Amanda Jacob
2012 could turn out to be the best year ever for offshore wind energy in Europe, says the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
19 July 2012Gail Rajgor
Dong Energy and Siemens Energy have signed a framework agreement for the supply and servicing of wind turbines totaling 1.8GW in capacity.
19 July 2012Gail Rajgor
Zyvex Marine is launching the 17 m LRV-17 Long Range Vessel which is built from carbon fibre reinforced plastic enhanced with carbon nanotubes. This is the
19 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Airbus has delivered the front fuselage for the first flyable A350 XWB (MSN1) to its Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Toulouse, France.
17 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Pauger Carbon Composites' 50 ft catamaran 'Fifty-Fifty' has won the Blue Ribbon long-distance sailing regatta on Lake Balaton in Hungary.
17 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Fibrelite has launched a new range of composite trench access panels with load ratings from A15 to E600 (EN 124) which provide an alternative to metal and
16 July 2012Amanda Jacob
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
16 July 2012Amanda Jacob
According to a new Frost & Sullivan report, the automotive carbon fibre composites market is likely to grow to US$95.50 million by 2017 at a compound annua
13 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Composite materials developer Hexcel has joined Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) Aerospace Programme.
12 July 2012Amanda Jacob
GKN Aerospace has been selected to provide Bell Helicopter with key metal and composite structures across the new 525 Relentless helicopter fuselage.
12 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Ocean Power Technologies and Lockheed Martin are teaming up again, this time to develop a 19MW wave energy project off Australia's coast.
11 July 2012Gail Rajgor
Virtek Vision International has sold its Virtek® LaserEdge® projection system to Eurocopter Canada for use in composite layup and reverse engineering.
11 July 2012Amanda Jacob
As part of a programme to grow its global engineering capability, GKN Aerospace has opened an engineering and technology centre at its Filton, UK site, nea
11 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Spirit AeroSystems Inc has developed a low cost, high rate composite manufacturing process for primary wing box parts production.
10 July 2012Amanda Jacob
GKN Aerospace has established a new facility in Mexico to manufacture composite airframe structures.
10 July 2012Amanda Jacob
SAFEHUT LLC collapsible, reusable composite shelters are manufactured from fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) panels based on AOC resin.
9 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Two offshore wind farms approved by the UK government last Friday are only likely to proceed if the economics stack up under new prices for offshore wind p
9 July 2012Gail Rajgor
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
9 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Delivery company UPS is introducing composite materials to replace certain metal components on its vans to improve fuel efficiency.
6 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Energy security, and environmental and livability concerns drive government policy on green building technologies but eventually cost and affordability det
5 July 2012Amanda Jacob
In its 2012 Current Market Outlook, Boeing projects a $4.5 trillion market for 34 000 new aircraft over the next 20 years as the current world fleet double
5 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Stagnating economic growth, low profit margins and waning government support mean market consolidation and/or contraction in the global wind energy supply
4 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Electricity generation from onshore wind was up by 51% in the first quarter of 2012, as a result of huge increases in capacity, the Department of Energy an
4 July 2012Rachel Parkes
Airbus has announced that it will establish its first US production facility. Located at the Brookley Aeroplex in Mobile, Alabama, it will assemble and del
4 July 2012Amanda Jacob
12 months since the MP4-12C first went on sale, McLaren Automotive announces its next high performance sports car, the 12C Spider, which is based on the sa
3 July 2012Amanda Jacob
Wind developer Mainstream Renewables has unveiled plans for 5GW of wind capacity in the Irish midlands, which it says will export power to the UK to fill t
3 July 2012Rachel Parkes
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during the month of June.
2 July 2012Amanda Jacob