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Composite applications news, December 2012

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24 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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Romanian wind energy on a high as 600MW onshore wind farm comes online

Czech developer CEZ Group has brought Europe’s largest onshore wind farm into full operation.

19 December 2012Rachel Parkes
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Spirit AeroSystems Inc is celebrating the completion of the 100th composite forward fuselage section for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

19 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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Matrix Composites has won a contract from Materials Sciences Corporation (MSC) to produce carbon fibre composite Hardback assemblies for the US Army’s Redu

18 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.

17 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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Thomas Becker, a former Danish civil servant, will replace Christian Kjaer as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA),

14 December 2012Gail Rajgor
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Unitech Composites has been awarded a Boeing contract to manufacture composite cockpit glare shields for the Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopter.

14 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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Aircraft maker Boeing and automotive company BMW have signed a collaboration agreement to participate in joint research on carbon fibre recycling. The comp

13 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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The University of Maine’s Advanced Structures and Composites Centre has been awarded the first phase of a potential $93.2 million deepwater offshore wind d

13 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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TenCate Advanced Composites has been successful in qualifying to supply carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastic composite material for an unnamed automotive

12 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.

10 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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Composite Advantage LLC’s FiberSPAN™ fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) bridge deck was selected for Boston’s largest pedestrian and cyclist bridge project to

7 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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Airbus has successfully completed the main structural assembly and system connection of the first flight-test A350 XWB aircraft, known as ‘MSN-001’.

5 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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Glass fibre reinforcements producer 3B has obtained Germanischer Lloyd (GL) approval for its SE2020 single-end rovings used mainly for the manufacturing of

4 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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India could have 89 GW of installed wind capacity by 2020 up from 18GW at present, helping to fight a growing power shortage in the country, according to a

4 December 2012Rachel Parkes
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Carbon fibre manufacturer Teijin Ltd has begun operating a pilot plant for the production of carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastic automotive components at

4 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last month.

1 December 2012Amanda Jacob
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