Chinese suppliers of flue gas desulphurisation (FGD) systems have installed or have orders for plants with the total electrical capacity of over 500,000 MW
30 April 2009Amanda Jacob
Energy Composites Corporation (ECC) has completed the delivery of 18 large bore, fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) tanks to a chlor-alkali producer.
30 April 2009Kari Larsen
RocTool and Performance Materials Corporation (PMC) have made a complete laptop cover using carbon composites.
30 April 2009Kari Larsen
E.ON and Ocean Prospect are withdrawing from the Wave Hub wave power project off the north Cornish coast in the UK.
30 April 2009Kari Larsen
The year ahead will be tough for wind energy whereas solar power will experience an uptick in 2009, according to analyst Emerging Energy Research (EER).
30 April 2009Kari Larsen
For the first quarter of 2009 DSM reports net sales of €1,837 million, down 22% on the first quarter of 2008 and down 12% on the fourth quarter of 2008.
30 April 2009Amanda Jacob
The American Wind Energy Association’s (AWEA) annual wind energy industry rankings report shows that wind energy leaders in several categories maintained t
29 April 2009Kari Larsen
One of the world's largest wind turbine manufacturers is to shed 1900 manufacturing jobs in the UK and Denmark.
29 April 2009David Hopwood
Speciality glass reinforcements and fibre-based materials supplier Ahlstrom has announced a further restructuring programme aimed at annual cost reductions
29 April 2009Amanda Jacob
Applied Chemical Laboratories Inc has developed an environmentally friendly solvent formulated to remove epoxy and polyester resins from manufacturing equi
29 April 2009Kari Larsen
Exel plc is changing its name to Exel Composites plc in English and Exel Composites Oyj in Finnish.
29 April 2009Kari Larsen
A fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) composite structure made with the corrosion-resistant Vipel® vinyl ester resin from AOC has been applied to an odour contr
29 April 2009Kari Larsen
Advanced composite materials supplier Hexcel Corporation reports net sales for the first quarter of 2009 of US$307.3 million, 10.8% down on the first quart
28 April 2009Amanda Jacob
The Aerospace Testing, Design and Manufacturing Show will move to Hamburg in 2010, to run alongside the Aircraft Interiors Expo. This will enable visitors
27 April 2009Amanda Jacob
Thomas GmbH + Co Technik + Innovation KG saw its radius pultrusion in the final for this year’s international technology award, Hermes Award, at the Hannov
27 April 2009Kari Larsen
Tencate Advanced Composites USA has installed a thermoplastic unitape prepreg line to meet the growing demand for aerospace thermoplastic composites.
27 April 2009Kari Larsen
LM Glasfiber saw a 53% jump in revenues to €885 million and recorded an operating profit of €91m in 2008.
27 April 2009Kari Larsen
The UK's wind power industry has given a thumbs up to a £525 million support package in Budget 2009, and believes that this will enable the industry to unl
24 April 2009David Hopwood
DEDIENNE MULTIPLASTURGY® Group has converted its development licence for the Roc Tool Cage System® process for mould induction heating from RocTool into a
24 April 2009Kari Larsen
Ashland Performance Materials has entered into a logistics services agreement for Europe with De Rijke in the Netherlands.
24 April 2009Kari Larsen
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) subsidiary Airtricity and Fluor Ltd are creating a new consortium to bid for the exclusive rights to develop windfarms u
24 April 2009Kari Larsen
Aircraft structures specialist Stork Fokker AESP of the Netherlands has signed an agreement with Virtek Vision International Inc, Canada, for the purchase
23 April 2009Amanda Jacob
Interplastic Corporation has received a certificate of approval from Lloyd’s Register for its CORVE8121 vinyl ester laminating resin.
23 April 2009Kari Larsen
Structural core materials producer DIAB opened its new core manufacturing operation in Chennai, India, in late March.
23 April 2009Kari Larsen
Menzolit group has been sold to German investor All-Finanz for an undisclosed sum, but will continue ‘business as usual.’
23 April 2009Kari Larsen
Many manufacturing entities in the New England region of the U.S. have been able to largely withstand the recessionary onslaught that has devastated other
23 April 2009Reginald Tucker
Deterioration in the global economy resulted in soft first-quarter earnings numbers due to lower demand in many of the end-use markets serviced by major pa
23 April 2009Metal Finishing
A fabric cutter designed for use in cutting very long pieces of composite materials is being introduced by Lectra, the French supplier of specialised softw
22 April 2009Amanda Jacob
The UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling has delivered his latest budget, which includes £1.4 billion of extra targeted support in the low car
22 April 2009David Hopwood
US composites fabricator Composiflex has announced the registration of its FlexPLY® trademark with the US Patent and Trademark Office. This will be used to
22 April 2009Amanda Jacob
BASF has completed its acquisition of Ciba Holding AG, with BASF now holding 95.8% of Ciba.
21 April 2009Kari Larsen
MFG-CP, a division of Moulded Fiber Glass Companies, supplied 20 ft stay-in-place fibre reinforced polymer (FRP) pile jackets filled with lightweight concr
21 April 2009Kari Larsen
A line of Type 27 flexible mesh abrasive wheels in several grades for grinding, sanding, and preparing the surfaces of composite wind turbine blades, fibre
20 April 2009Kari Larsen
A team developing a radio-controlled full composite aircraft will be the winner of this year’s Young Aerospace Engineer of the Year Technology and Innovati
20 April 2009Kari Larsen
As part of its acquisition of American Oxford Performance Materials (OPM) earlier this year, Arkema acquired the OXPEKK® range of high performance polyethe
20 April 2009Kari Larsen
An agreement between RheTech Inc and SABIC Innovative Plastics will see RheTech become the toll manufacturer of SABIC’s STAMAX long glass fibre reinforced
20 April 2009Amanda Jacob
AOC LLC has announced a US$0.05/lb price increase on all resins, gel-coats, pigments, colorants and additives for shipments in Mexico.
17 April 2009Amanda Jacob
The School of Engineering at Swansea University has been awarded £655 000 to study high performance composite materials that will be used in a new generati
17 April 2009Kari Larsen
Hexcel Corporation is using Imperium’s ultrasonic camera Acoustocam™ I-500 for non-destructive inspection of composites.
17 April 2009Kari Larsen
Advanced Composites Group (ACG) and graphite and carbon-based products producer GrafTech International Ltd have finalised processing and performance requir
17 April 2009Kari Larsen
Siemens has received a turnkey order for the supply of 13 of its SWT-2.3-101 wind turbines from EnerjiSA Power Generating Company for Çanakkale-Mahmudiye w
17 April 2009Kari Larsen
Energy Composites Corporation has signed a Letter of Intent (LoI) with the City of Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, USA, to acquire a 54 acre parcel of land fo
16 April 2009Kari Larsen
Solar Team Twente will use advanced composite materials from TenCate for its solar powered car, which will participate in the 10th World Solar Challenge in
16 April 2009Kari Larsen
Energy Composites Corporation has launched a composites-in-wind-energy programme, WindFiber™, under which it will carry out wind-related innovation, engine
16 April 2009Kari Larsen
Multibrid, a subsidiary of AREVA, will supply 80 M5000 5 MW offshore wind turbines for the 400 MW Global Tech 1 windfarm 90 km from the coast in the German
16 April 2009Kari Larsen
Gurit's facility for automotive composite parts has increased production and a new technical centre is being created. The company says that its technology
16 April 2009Amanda Jacob
Optimum Anode Technologies, a newly formed business affiliate of Titan Metal Fabricators, has hit the ground running with a full complement of dimensionall
16 April 2009Metal Finishing
According to InsideEPA.com, the Pentagon's acquisition chief has signed off on a memo essentially forcing the military to use substitutes in place of hexav
15 April 2009Metal Finishing
Building on its experience in the marine and wind energy sectors, composite materials supplier Gurit is expanding its interests into the emerging ocean ene
15 April 2009Amanda Jacob
AGL Energy Ltd has entered into agreements for the construction of the 132 MW Hallett 4 windfarm at North Brown Hill in South Australia.
15 April 2009Kari Larsen
A £500,000 fund has been launched to help environmental entrepreneurs and small businesses develop ideas to generate renewable electricity from the River S
15 April 2009Kari Larsen
DONG Energy has installed the first offshore wind turbine at its Gunfleet Sands Offshore Wind Farm project in the Thames Estuary off the East coast of Engl
15 April 2009Kari Larsen
Acorn Growth Companies has acquired the California-based advanced composite aircraft components and structures manufacturer, Integrated Composites Inc.
15 April 2009Kari Larsen
Ashland Performance Materials is increasing the prices of its unsaturated polyester resins and gel-coats sold in Europe and Asia Pacific by 3-4%.
15 April 2009Amanda Jacob
Tier One supplier to Airbus, Premium AEROTEC, is using VISTAGY Inc’s FiberSIM® software to design and manufacture large composite fuselage sections.
14 April 2009Kari Larsen
Oxeon’s spread carbon tow fabric TeXtreme® has been used in Momentum Model Technologies HB’s lightweight hand-launched glider, Sirius F3K.
14 April 2009Kari Larsen
Airbus has extended its existing Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TenCate for composite materials for its aircraft.
14 April 2009Kari Larsen
Ocean Power Technologies Inc has received additional funding of US$1.1 million for its on-going project with the US Navy to demonstrate the PowerBuoy® wave
14 April 2009Kari Larsen
The composite lateral cover or engine compartment door for the high-speed French TGV train was made using the light resin transfer moulding (RTM Light) pro
10 April 2009Amanda Jacob
Mitsubishi Rayon Co Ltd is postponing the start of production at its new carbon fibre plant in Otake City, Japan, for approximately one year. The company’s
9 April 2009Amanda Jacob
Fibreglass manufacturer 3B is introducing a fibreglass dry chopped strand product for reinforced polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (PE) compounds.
9 April 2009Kari Larsen
HOBAS’ centrifugally cast glass fibre reinforced plastics (CC-GRP) pipes are being applied to a hydropower station at the estuary of the rivers Pöls and Mu
9 April 2009Kari Larsen
Devi Consultancy Services is launching a design and engineering programme featuring 2D to 3D computer assisted design (CAD) conversions, rapid prototyping,
8 April 2009Kari Larsen
The JEC Composites Show 2009 attracted 27 000 visitors and 1065 exhibitors to Paris, France in March despite the economic turbulence.
8 April 2009Kari Larsen
GKN Aerospace has started work on the creation of a new composites manufacturing facility in Bristol, UK. This will form a key part of GKN Aerospace-Filton
8 April 2009Amanda Jacob
Stephen Candiloro, Sr., one of the plating industry’s technical giants, suffered a fatal heart attack on Feb. 6. He was 77. During the latter half of his 6
8 April 2009Metal Finishing
On April 1 the Dow Chemical Company announced the completion of its acquisition of Rohm and Haas. The acquisition is a major step in Dow’s strategy of grow
8 April 2009Metal Finishing
Three automotive applications using TenCate’s composite ‘smart textiles’ are on show at the AutoRAI 2009 car show in Amsterdam, the Netherlands this April.
7 April 2009Kari Larsen
High-end composite materials producer Gurit, has reported a 1600% jump in net income to CHF17 million for the full financial year of 2008.
7 April 2009Kari Larsen
The Institut für Verbundwerkstoffe (IVW) GmbH won two composite innovation awards at the JEC Show in Paris, France, in March.
6 April 2009Kari Larsen
Graco® will exhibit its fluid handling equipment for wind energy manufacturing applications at the WINDPOWER 2009 Conference and Exhibition on 4-7 May, 200
6 April 2009Kari Larsen
Tecnofibras, part of Busscar Group, is producing composite mid roofs for International do Brazil’s truck model 9800.
3 April 2009Kari Larsen
MAG is introducing rapid material placement and quick-cure moulding systems that reduce lay-up infusion and curing time by 50%, double throughput and incre
3 April 2009Kari Larsen
Scott Bader has launched an improved sanitaryware gelcoat range, Crystic® 967 Excel, with “enhanced” properties and long term performance.
2 April 2009Kari Larsen
FRP Equipment Inc, a division of fibreglass producer and glass fibre recycling machinery manufacturer Seawolf Design, has expanded its line to include thre
1 April 2009Kari Larsen