First Flight Wind consortium gets Crown Estate approval for offshore wind farm.
30 October 2012Robin Whitlock
Honda Aircraft Company has commenced production of the HondaJet light business aircraft, which features a composite fuselage.
30 October 2012Amanda Jacob
Composite materials supplier Gurit has announced a €3 million automotive contract from "a prestigious new customer in Italy."
29 October 2012Amanda Jacob
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29 October 2012Amanda Jacob
BASF and TenCate Advanced Composites have entered into a strategic alliance to cooperate on the development, production and commercialisation of thermoplas
26 October 2012Amanda Jacob
The railway station in the English seaside town of Dawlish has seen a corroded steel footbridge replaced with composite. This is the first composite bridge
26 October 2012Amanda Jacob
French Prime Minister, Jean-Marc Ayrault, and Airbus President and CEO, Fabrice Brégier, have officially inaugurated the A350 XWB Final Assembly Line (FAL)
25 October 2012Amanda Jacob
The composite vertical tail plane of the first flyable A350 XWB (MSN1) is the first A350 XWB component to be painted in the Airbus livery.
23 October 2012Amanda Jacob
The Lotus Formula One (F1) race team has adopted Anaglyph's Laminate Tools software as its primary tool for the stress-based ply definition of its chassis
23 October 2012Amanda Jacob
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22 October 2012Amanda Jacob
The Latin American Composite Materials Association (ALMACO) has built a 'composites city' to illustrate the numerous industrial applications of composite m
20 October 2012Amanda Jacob
Austrian Tier 1 aerospace supplier FACC has acquired a CHARGER™ small flat tape layer from MAG for use in the production of primary and secondary structura
19 October 2012Amanda Jacob
Bombardier Aerospace's first CSeries aircraft that will take flight is being manufactured in Mirabel, Quebec, Canada.
18 October 2012Amanda Jacob
DSM is introducing a new resin featuring bio-based raw materials. By combining this resin with natural quartz minerals surfaces company has Compac created
17 October 2012Amanda Jacob
Automotive supplier Montaplast of Germany is using BASF's high-temperature resistant 35% glass fibre reinforced polyamide (PA) Ultramid® Endure for a heat
17 October 2012Amanda Jacob
SDE Energy has formed a joint venture with Green Energy International to develop the wave power plant along the coastline of the Republic of Ecuador.
16 October 2012Gail Rajgor
Continental Structural Plastics (CSP) has selected Siemens PLM Software's Fibersim™ composites engineering software to support the production launch of the
16 October 2012Amanda Jacob
Huntington Ingalls Industries' Ingalls Shipbuilding division has delivered the composite deckhouse for the destroyer Zumwalt (DDG 1000) to the US Navy.
16 October 2012Amanda Jacob
Ford Motor Company has demonstrated a prototype carbon fibre composite bonnet for the Ford Focus which weighs more than 50% less than a standard steel vers
15 October 2012Amanda Jacob
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15 October 2012Amanda Jacob
'Space tourism' company Virgin Galactic has taken 100% ownership of its sister company The Spaceship Company (TSC), by acquiring the 30% stake held by Scal
15 October 2012Amanda Jacob
Over 40 organisations have joined forces to set out a long-term vision for the deployment of offshore wind in the northern seas and the economic opportunit
12 October 2012Robin Whitlock
Siemens Energy has begun field testing of its new 154 m rotor for its 6 MW offshore wind turbine in Østerild, Denmark.
12 October 2012Amanda Jacob
DTC Dutch Thermoplastic Components, Kok & Van Engelen, NLR National Aerospace Laboratory of the Netherlands, TenCate Advanced Composites and VIRO have deci
12 October 2012Amanda Jacob
Kaman Aerospace Group Inc and Kineco Pvt Ltd have signed a definitive agreement to form a manufacturing joint venture in India.
9 October 2012Amanda Jacob
BASF and the SGL Group have announced that they plan to develop a composite material based on carbon fibre and a reactive polyamide system and intended for
9 October 2012Amanda Jacob
At the Paris Motor Show, Ferrari unveiled a composite chassis for its upcoming limited-edition hybrid model.
5 October 2012Amanda Jacob
As new production technologies lower carbon fibre cost, the global market for carbon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) will more than double to $36 billion i
5 October 2012Amanda Jacob
GKN plc has completed the acquisition of Volvo Aero (the aero engine division of AB Volvo), creating an aerospace engine business with both composites and
4 October 2012Amanda Jacob
Wind turbine blade manufacturer LM Wind Power has confirmed plans to construct a blade manufacturing facility in Brazil. It will be established in conjunct
3 October 2012Amanda Jacob
Statoil and Statkraft collaborated on the £1 billion wind farm in a 50:50 joint venture.
3 October 2012Robin Whitlock
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1 October 2012Amanda Jacob
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1 October 2012Amanda Jacob