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Galway Carbon manufactured the lightweight composite body panels for Former World Rally Champion Petter Solberg's 2013 European Rallycross car.
According to news reports, the Sealine boat brand has been sold to newly-founded subsidiary of investment company Aurelius AG, which acquired a majority st
DNV KEMA has released a new standard for floating offshore wind turbine structures which it says will give the nascent floating-turbine sector the confiden
RPC Technologies has developed a lightweight, fire retardant and anti-static mine ventilation duct (LWMVD) made out of carbon fibre composite, which is lig
Wind turbine developers will soon have open access to a £50mn testing facility in the U.K. based on unique and leading-edge technology.
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ITT Exelis has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract from Lockheed Martin to fabricate composite blade seal components for all variants of the F-35
The Dutch Minister of Economic Affairs, Henk Kamp, has signed a letter of intent (LOI) for the proposed extension of the Thermoplastic Affordable Primary A
Hexcel and Safran have signed a long-term contract for the supply of composite materials for the LEAP-1 engine programmes. The LEAP engine family is a prod
TenCate Advanced Composites and Fokker Aerostructures have signed a long-term agreement under which TenCate will supply its thermoplastic composite materia
Boeing has launched the 787-10 Dreamliner, the third and largest member of the 787 family. The Boeing 787 Dreamliner's construction is 50% composite materi
The company says sensors in the blades will be able to predict weather conditions and calculate when they can harvest the most energy from the wind - while
Cytec Industries has announced its selection as the preferred advanced materials supplier for the Leading Edge Aviation Propulsion (LEAP) engine programme.
GE Aviation has announced the development of a composites production facility at its Hamble, UK, as part of a 5-year, US$50 million-plus investment at the
Boeing projects a demand for more than 35,000 new aircraft over the next 20 years, valued at US$4.8 trillion, according to the company's Current Market Out
At 200MW, the development will also be one of the biggest in Europe, according to the companies.
Spirit AeroSystems has announced it has been working with Spintech Ventures to develop a reconfigurable tooling technology for manufacturing complex compos
More than 50,000 visitors watched the A350 XWB’s takeoff on its 14 June maiden flight on the Airbus website.
The A350 XWB, the first Airbus aircraft to be over 50 wt% composite, made its maiden flight at Blagnac in Toulouse, France, today.
Premier Composite Technologies is using Gurit composite materials to manufacture roof panels for the Medinah railway station, part of a new high speed rail
Registro Italiano Navale (RINA) has given a new approval and re-approved grades from Scott Bader’s Crystic® Crestomer® range of high performance urethane a
Airbus has announced that the A350 XWB's first flight is planned for Friday 14 June.
Large, lightweight composite façade panels developed by DSM, Büfa and NPSP Composieten have been used in the construction of a new energy-neutral office bu
2013 is expected to be a challenging year for the wind energy industry with global grid-connected installations set to be down 5% to 43.4 GW, according to
Gurit contributed to NASA research which demonstrates that uncured prepreg can be prepared in terrestrial conditions and transported into space for on-site
The 83.5 m long blade – said to be the world's largest to date – was commissioned by Samsung Heavy Industries and the first prototype was designed and manu
Vestas has manufactured the first prototype blade for its new V117-3.3 MW wind turbine at its factory in Brighton, Colorado, USA.
Rolls-Royce’s Trent XWB engines have run for the first time on the first Airbus A350 XWB (called MSN1), as part of the preparations for the aircraft’s maid