The European Powder Metallurgy Association (EPMA) is planning a Powder Metallurgy Summer School, which will take place in Madrid, Spain, from Monday 5th J
29 January 2010
Hexcel Corporation reports net sales for the fourth quarter of 2009 of US$266.6 million, 7.9% lower than reported for the fourth quarter of 2008. Operating
29 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Parmatech-Proform Corp says that it plans to open a new 25,000 ft2 metal injection moulding (MIM) manufacturing plant in East Providence, Rhode Island, USA
28 January 2010
ACCIONA is the first company to register a wind energy facility in the USA under the requirements of the Voluntary Carbon Standard (VCS).
28 January 2010Bill Eggertson
Harbec Plastics, Inc, based in Ontario, NY, US, has upgraded its direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) machine to run stainless steel, cobalt chrome, maragi
28 January 2010
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute have designed a simulation technique that could improve the distribution of metal powder in a die.
28 January 2010
Polystrand Inc has announced the release of its 'green series' reinforcing tape which uses recycled polyolefin as the matrix.
28 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Energetx Composites and Aeroblade have entered into a licensing agreement to design and produce utility-scale wind turbine blades for the North America mar
28 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The German Federation of Reinforced Plastics, AVK, is inviting entries for its annual innovation awards competition.
27 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Anaglyph has announced the release of version 4.0 of the Laminate Tools software application.
27 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Distributor Composites One has announced that it will introduce a new line of formulated epoxy resin products manufactured by SIKA Corporation into the US
27 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Eastman Machine Company is introducing a dual laser and blade cutting system for use by companies in the composites, aerospace, automotive, and industrial
27 January 2010Amanda Jacob
ENECON Corporation is introducing DuraWrap™, a carbon fibre composite wrap system for use in repairing metal and concrete pipes and tanks.
26 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Huber Engineered Materials engineers will present an educational session on fillers at the Composites 2010 show in Las Vegas next month.
26 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Electric vehicles – plug-in hybrids and battery powered – will comprise nearly 20% of the global market for light vehicles in 2030, according to a study by
26 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Composites One, along with the Closed Mold Alliance and 10 industry partners, will host demonstrations of closed mould technology at the Composites 2010 tr
26 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Mould release specialisst Zyvax is bringing its distributors together at a training event to highlight the latest environmentally friendly products, applic
25 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Gurit has granted a non-exclusive license for its patented Sprint technology and products to Hexcel Corporation.
25 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The European Pultrusion Technology Association (EPTA) has published the programme for its 10th World Pultrusion Conference, taking place on 8-9 April 2010
25 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
25 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The UK government's UK Renewables Service is offering help to composites companies interested in becoming involved in the growing UK offshore wind energy s
25 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Cutting systems manufacturer Eastman Machine Company will exhibit at the Composites 2010 exhibition in Las Vegas on 9-11 February.
25 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The January 2010 Business Conditions Report from the Precision Metalforming Association, or PMA, shows metalforming companies are increasingly optimistic a
22 January 2010Metal Finishing
SP-High Modulus has announced that it will supply composite materials, engineering and expertise for the boat design selected for the Tour de France à la V
22 January 2010Amanda Jacob
A European project aims to develop a window frame constructed of composite that has twice the insulation efficiency of the best frames currently on the mar
22 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Speaking exclusively to Metal Powder Report, Jonathan Wroe, executive director of the European Metal Powder Association (EPMA) outlined his forecast for th
22 January 2010
In December, the Official Journal of the European Union published a notice of initiation of anti-dumping proceedings concerning imports of certain continuo
21 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Britain and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will jointly fund £1 million for research into renewable energy policy.
21 January 2010Bill Eggertson
METYX Composites has announced the signing of an agreement making Scott Bader the exclusive distributor of its products in France.
21 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Despite the global economic crisis, optimism remains for the future growth prospects of Eastern and Central Europe reports global engineering group Trelleb
21 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Sandvik has invested in a direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) machine, which, it says, can significantly reduce the time required to cost-effectively devel
21 January 2010
Crucible Industries LLC has partnered with Latrobe Specialty Steel Distribution for the sales and marketing of the company’s Crucible Particle Metallurgy (
21 January 2010
TPI Composites Inc has announced the successful durability and road testing of its All Composite Military Vehicle (ACMV).
21 January 2010Amanda Jacob
With Grand Rapids, Mich., serving as the backdrop for SUR/FIN 2010, it’s only fitting that the conference programming reflect the major issues facing the d
20 January 2010Reginald Tucker
The integration of 20% from wind energy is technically feasible, but will require significant expansion of the transmission infrastructure and system opera
20 January 2010Bill Eggertson
Composite resin manufacturer Scott Bader has joined a UK sustainable resources project group which aims to identify new ways of manufacturing chemicals fro
20 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The world’s first conference dedicated to carbon fibre recycling was held in November in Hamburg, Germany.
20 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The board of directors of Nordson Corporation recently named Michael F. Hilton president and chief executive officer, effective Jan. 16, 2010. Hilton, who
19 January 2010Metal Finishing
REpower Systems AG will supply 20 REpower MM92 wind turbines to National Wind LLC, a large-scale community wind project developer, for the first phase of t
19 January 2010Kari Larsen
RES has acquired a portfolio of wind power projects in South Africa totalling almost 300 MW.
19 January 2010Kari Larsen
Wind energy could supply 12% of the world’s power by the middle of this century, up from the current 2%, according to a 'Wind Energy Roadmap' to be publish
19 January 2010Bill Eggertson
Boeing has completed initial airworthiness testing on its 787 Dreamliner aircraft. This will allow more aircraft to join the flight test programme.
19 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The European offshore wind power market grew 54% in 2009 according to the European Wind Energy Association (EWEA).
18 January 2010Kari Larsen
The embedded smart sensor systems will allow operators of offshore wind farms to check ‘the health’ of the wind turbines, while the operator is sitting ons
18 January 2010Kari Larsen
From city cars, to supercars and alternative energy vehicles, car makers are finding more applications for carbon fibre composite.
18 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
18 January 2010Amanda Jacob
A long spell of unseasonably cold weather pushed industrial production up 0.6% in December. This is slightly off from November, when industrial production
15 January 2010Metal Finishing
TenCate says it has been granted significant orders for anti-ballistic composite materials.
15 January 2010Amanda Jacob
MVP has designed an automated vertical winding system to speed up production time for Delta Environmental Products.
15 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Lower backlogs for aircraft parts, as well as uncertainty surrounding aerospace and defense budgets, shouldn't keeping aviation sector from flying high in
14 January 2010Metal Finishing
SP-High Modulus, the marine business of Gurit, has appointed Navimo as a new distributor for the UK marine retail market.
14 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Sika Deutschland GmbH is introducing a new composite resin system for the aviation market which has been been approved by the German Air Ministry for use i
14 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Canadian boat builder Campion Marine Inc has decided to manufacture all of its new boats with Envirez® bio-derived resin from Ashland Performance Materials
14 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) and BASF SE have founded a joint laboratory for the production of nanomaterials in Karlsruhe, Germany.
14 January 2010
Demand for nickel is set to rise again over the next few years after a recent fall in prices, says a report from UK-based Roskill Information Services.
14 January 2010
Arnold Magnetic Technologies Corporation has reported the sale of its powder core business unit located in Shenzhen, China to Micrometals, Inc of Anaheim,
14 January 2010
Cook Composites and Polymers (CCP) has announced a price increase for its unsaturated polyester and vinyl ester resins, and gel-coats.
14 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Natural Power has launched a new product in its suite of wind farm monitoring and management tools: ForeSite.
14 January 2010Kari Larsen
The Process Cleaning Expo (PCx) 2010—the only event in North America dedicated to cleaning in the industrial manufacturing process—will be held in Louisvil
13 January 2010Metal Finishing
The Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, as part of its efforts to enhance chemicals management under the Toxic Substances Control Act, or TSCA, has relea
13 January 2010Metal Finishing
When are 85,000 job losses during a given month considered an “improvement?” When the comparative year-ago losses exceeded that number several times over.
13 January 2010Reg Tucker
ITW Plexus reports it has developed long working time, fast-curing, 1:1 methacrylate structural adhesives which provide improved bonding in wind turbine bl
13 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The British Wind Energy Association (BWEA) has called on the UK government to ensure that UK manufacturing benefits from the recently announced Round 3 off
13 January 2010Kari Larsen
Waterjet machine manufacturer Flow International Corporation has received approximately US$11 million of orders for Composite Machining Center abrasive wat
13 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Vestas will deliver 40 of its V90 2 MW wind turbines to Nordwind Handels GmbH & Co KG for the eastern part of Germany.
13 January 2010Kari Larsen
The Danish Council for Strategic Research’s Programme Commission on Energy and Environment has granted funding of DKK38 million for the establishment of th
13 January 2010Kari Larsen
AOC LLC has announced a price increase for Mexico, Latin American and the Caribbean for all resins and gel-coats.
13 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Risø DTU has completed a successful test on a wind turbine with a laser-based anemometer built into the spinner in order to increase electricity generation
12 January 2010Kari Larsen
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
12 January 2010Amanda Jacob
PPG Industries has announced the certification of its HYBON glass fibre roving products for wind turbine blades by Germanischer Lloyd (GL), an internationa
12 January 2010Amanda Jacob
AOC LLC has announced price increases for resins shipped from its European and Asia plants.
12 January 2010Amanda Jacob
A study commissioned by the Scottish Government highlights Scotland's location, natural resources, research and manufacturing bases as key advantages for d
12 January 2010Bill Eggertson
The marine energy industry is at a relatively early stage of development and maturity when compared to other renewable energy technologies, but the US Depa
12 January 2010Bill Eggertson
A wind farm in the Caribbean island of Dominica is one of the first three projects to receive US funding under the ‘Energy & Climate Partnership of the Ame
11 January 2010Bill Eggertson
Scott Bader is increasing the prices from its European production sites of all Crystic® unsaturated polyester, DCPD and vinyl ester resins, plus all gel-co
11 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Reichhold has announced a 150 Euro/tonne price increase on all of its composite products sold in Europe.
11 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The Forewind consortium will develop the largest zone in Round 3 for UK offshore wind farms, Dogger Bank.
11 January 2010Kari Larsen
The SMart Wind consortium, led by Mainstream Renewable Power and Siemens Project Ventures (SPV), a division company of Siemens Financial Services, will dev
11 January 2010Kari Larsen
Two consortia, of which Scottish and Southern Energy Plc (SSE) is a partner, have been awarded development partner status by The Crown Estate in Round 3 of
11 January 2010Kari Larsen
RWE npower renewables has been awarded the Bristol Channel Zone, off the South Wales and North Devon coasts, UK, under The Crown Estate’s Round 3 offshore
11 January 2010Kari Larsen
VISTAGY Inc, developer of the FiberSIM composites engineering software, has announced a partnership with the National Institute for Aviation Research (NIAR
11 January 2010Amanda Jacob
EDP Renováveis (EDPR) and SeaEnergy Plc have been awarded the right to develop offshore wind farms in the Moray Firth, Scotland, with an approximate instal
8 January 2010Kari Larsen
Composite materials developer Gurit is temporarily reducing the work force of its structural foam plant in Magog, Canada, by 125 people.
8 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The UK's Crown Estate has announced the successful bidders for the exclusive Round 3 "Zone Development Agreements", which will take the development of up
8 January 2010David Hopwood
Ford Motor Co., Honda, Toyota, Volkswagon, BMW, Hyundai, and Kia were among the major automotive manufacturers reporting December sales growth. Increases r
7 January 2010Metal Finishing
Russian shipbuilder SNSP has purchased Vistagy Inc's FiberSIM® composites engineering software to design and manufacture composite hulls, hull spars and su
7 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The siging of a political declaration in early December last year will see the countries cooperate on the development of a North Sea supergrid joining up c
7 January 2010David Hopwood
Diran Apelian, director of the Metal Processing Institute at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts, USA, has received the 2010 Robert Earll McConn
7 January 2010
According to a new statement Michael E. Lutheran newly elected president of the Metal Powder Industries Federation (MPIF), the PM industry faces a slow rec
7 January 2010
New 2010 editions of Standard Test Methods for Metal Powders and Powder Metallurgy Products, and Standard 35, Materials Standards for PM Self-Lubricating B
7 January 2010
American Superconductor Corporation (AMSC)'s wholly-owned AMSC Windtec subsidiary has signed a follow-on contract with China's Dongfang Turbine Co. Ltd. to
7 January 2010David Hopwood
AOC has announced a price increase for the USA and Canada for all resins and gel-coats.
7 January 2010Amanda Jacob
As manufacturing goes, so goes metal finishing—that’s a given. What remains somewhat of a mystery, though, is forecasting the precise point in 2010 when we
6 January 2010Reg Tucker
Ashland Performance Materials is increasing the price of its resins and gel-coats produced and sold in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
6 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The Association Connecting Electronic Industries, or IPC, recently announced that rigid PCB shipments declined 11.3% and bookings were down 4.1% in Novembe
5 January 2010Reg Tucker
The European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB) have launched an initiative to help regional authorities invest in renewable energy and ener
5 January 2010Bill Eggertson
Forecasting company IHS Global Insight has issued its top 10 economic predictions for 2010.
5 January 2010Amanda Jacob
METYX Composites of Turkey has strengthened its expertise in the resin transfer moulding (RTM) sector with the addition of two new production lines.
5 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Canadian storage tank manufacturer ZCL Composites Inc has acquired Dualam Plastics Inc of Montreal, Quebec, a specialist in composite products for use in c
5 January 2010Amanda Jacob
Dörken Corporation USA, an operating unit of Dörken MKS-Systeme, Herdecke, Germany and a global leader in the manufacture of corrosion protection coating s
4 January 2010Metal Finishing
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says the projects represent 70,000 MW of capacity that will help the state meet its 2020 goal of one-third of power from ren
4 January 2010Bill Eggertson
Columbia Chemical is now offering COLTEC testing solutions for salt spray cabinets. New equipment including a state-of-the-art water deionization plant has
4 January 2010Metal Finishing
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during 2009.
4 January 2010Amanda Jacob
The United Kingdom generated 5.5 TWh of electricity from renewable energy in the third quarter (Q3) of 2009, an increase of 25% compared with Q3 2008.
4 January 2010Bill Eggertson
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website during the month of December.
4 January 2010Amanda Jacob
American Finishing Resources, LLC, or AFR, recently announced its Chilton Coatings Removal and Tooling Fabrication operations have become registered to the
3 January 2010Metal Finishing
Vestas will provide 48 of its V90 2.0 MW wind turbines to the German company Prokon, for different locations in Poland.
1 January 2010Kari Larsen
The Reinforced Plastics team would like to wish you a Happy New Year!
1 January 2010Amanda Jacob