China XD Plastics Company Ltd has started construction of a 300,000 tonne polymer composites production and R&D project in Southwest China.
30 December 2013Amanda Jacob
The European Pultrusion Technology Association (EPTA) has published the programme for its conference taking place on 6-7 March 2014 in Portugal.
27 December 2013Amanda Jacob
SGL Group has announced the sale of SGL Rotec GmbH & Co KG, a manufacturer of composite blades for wind turbines.
25 December 2013Amanda Jacob
Reinforced Plastics would like to wish all our readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. The Reinforced Plastics office will close on 24 December 201
24 December 2013Amanda Jacob
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23 December 2013Amanda Jacob
The programme for the MPIF’s Additive Manufacturing with Powder Metallurgy conference is now online.
20 December 2013
Arkema plans to divest its two South African subsidiaries, Arkema Resins Proprietary Limited and Harveys Composites Proprietary Limited to South African co
20 December 2013Mark Holmes
For the past few years, investors, owners, and consultants in the US wind industry have been challenged by well-documented cases of wind project under-perf
20 December 2013David Hopwood
Umicore has acquired Palm Commodities International, a manufacturer and distributor of materials to the surface treatment industry in North America.
20 December 2013
Exelis has been selected by Boeing to produce composite airframe substructures for the 787 Dreamliner. Work will begin immediately at the Exelis composite
20 December 2013Mark Holmes
GE has announced the eight winners of its "3D Printing Design Quest", requesting new designs of jet engine loading brackets using 3D printing.
19 December 2013
SKF has been awarded the Tesla Motors Excellent Quality award which is given to the top three in the areas of quality, delivery, and customer service.
19 December 2013
TPI Composites, Inc. is re-opening its plant in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico to provide blades to the North American wind market.
19 December 2013Mark Holmes
Registration is now open for the 2014 Materials Research Exchange, an exhibition of outstanding materials research from UK universities and research organi
19 December 2013
A pedestrian lifting bridge based on two 30 m long composite decks has just been opened over Rhyl Harbour in North Wales. Lightweight composite decks offer
19 December 2013Amanda Jacob
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18 December 2013
Final issue will be the November-December 2013 dual edition.
18 December 2013Metal Finishing
Blade Dynamics has concluded the design phase of its ‘Very Long Blade Project’ for the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) and confirmed that the prototypi
18 December 2013Mark Holmes
Scientists at CSIRO have worked with horse podiatrists to create a 3D printed titanium horseshoe which can support a lame foot and encourage it to heal.
18 December 2013
The March/April issue of Reinforced Plastics will contain a preview of the JEC Europe 2014 exhibition, which takes place in Paris on 11-13 March.
18 December 2013Mark Holmes
Zoltek Companies Inc. has reported financial results for the fourth quarter fiscal year-end results for 2013.
17 December 2013Mark Holmes
Miba says that it has nearly reached prior-year levels in the first three quarters of 2013–2014 (February 1 to October 31), with the result that its outloo
17 December 2013
According to a new market research report, 3D Printing Market by Technology, the 3D printing market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 23% from 2013 to 2020
17 December 2013
Nammo Composite Solutions of Salt Lake City, USA has started an expansion of its facility to support its growing manufacturing and assembly business.
17 December 2013Mark Holmes
Abu Dhabi-based investment and development company Mubadala Development Company and composite materials supplier Cytec Industries have announced a strategi
17 December 2013Amanda Jacob
The Industrial Heating Equipment Association (IHEA) will run Safety Standards and Codes Seminar on 13 and 14 May 2014.
17 December 2013
Sandvik Coromant’s new CoroMill 177 tangentially-mounted hob features a segment fixturing interface to help ensure cutter accuracy and rigidity and deliver
16 December 2013
Umicore Shokubai Japan, the joint venture between Umicore and Nippon Shokubai, has opened a new technical R&D centre in Tokoname city, Aichi Prefecture, Ja
16 December 2013
A Duke research team has developed a better recipe for synthetic replacement cartilage in joints.
16 December 2013
Researchers have found a catalyst that can quickly generate hydrogen from water using sunlight.
16 December 2013
Rare Element Resources Ltd, the owner of a large American source of rare earths, has appointed Paul H. Zink as senior vice president and chief financial of
16 December 2013
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
16 December 2013Mark Holmes
Celstran long fibre reinforced thermoplastics from Celanese Corporation have been selected by ebm-papst for radial fan impellers for its new RadiCal fan se
13 December 2013Mark Holmes
Höganäs has changed how it analyses the flow rate of customer mixes.
13 December 2013
Arcam has agreed to acquire a manufacturer of titanium powders for a total of CA$35 million.
13 December 2013
Hexagon Ragasco, the wholly owned subsidiary of Hexagon Composites, has been awarded several new orders for delivery of composite LPG cylinders to markets
13 December 2013Mark Holmes
GKN Sinter Metals has won four awards from automotive customers in India.
13 December 2013
VSMPO-Avisma, the world's biggest producer of titanium, says that it expects profits to rise 25% to some US$250 million this year due to robust demand from
12 December 2013
A solar panel design made with a new ceramic material points the way to be cheaper, more efficient, and requiring less manufacturing time.
12 December 2013
Clemson University investigated an application allowing the human body to regenerate its own tissue.
12 December 2013
A team of scientists use a small amount of graphene oxide to improve carbon nanomaterials which promises to improve composite materials.
12 December 2013
COVENTEC product lines meet Ford WSS-M21P51 fastener specifications
12 December 2013Metal Finishing
Advanced Forming Technology Inc (AFT), a division of Worldwide Inc’s precision components group, has begun expanding operational capabilities at its Colora
12 December 2013
Could composite aerospace structures be assembled much like snap-together building blocks rather than manufactured as large, expensive, one-piece parts? Un
12 December 2013Amanda Jacob
The Metinvest Group will invest US$00 million in upgrading the Ilych Iron & Steel Works of Mariupol in Ukraine.
12 December 2013
Molycorp has elected a new chair to its board of directors.
12 December 2013
French company ABB in Lyon has selected polybutylene terephthalate (PBT) Ultradur® B4450 G5 from BASF for its DC contactors for use on railways.
12 December 2013Mark Holmes
Titanium powders developed by Metalysis have been used to 3D print automotive parts for the first time.
12 December 2013
EOS GmbH has teamed up with 3D-Micromac AG, a provider of laser micromachining systems, to establish 3D MicroPrint GmbH and help develop and commercialise
12 December 2013
New company is a joint venture between TITAN Metal Fabricators and De Dietrich Process Systems
11 December 2013Metal Finishing
A new additive manufacturing (AM) machine for producing parts from metal powder, layer by layer, has been launched by EOS.
11 December 2013
More than 10,695 people participated in this year’s show at Shanghai.
11 December 2013Metal Finishing
The materials created by scientists start as flat slabs, but they morph into shapes that can be controlled by patterns written into their layers.
11 December 2013
A project where no fewer than twenty researchers from five universities worldwide have collaborated to prove that polymers can also be semimetals.
11 December 2013
Instruction covered the basics on hard chrome plating, including coating characteristics and plating mechanisms.
11 December 2013Metal Finishing
Quickstep Holdings Ltd has signed a US$75 million deal with aerospace group Lockheed Martin to supply 120 sets of carbon composite wing flaps for the C-130
11 December 2013Amanda Jacob
US company Enduro has opened a fourth facility. Located in Houston, the 75,000 square foot office, warehouse and production facility will focus on manufact
11 December 2013Mark Holmes
Faraday Technology, Inc., and The Dow Chemical Company recognized for 'green' innovations in plating chemistries and coatings, respectively.
10 December 2013Metal Finishing
Researchers of Technische Universität München have, for the first time, watched organic solar cells degrade in real time.
10 December 2013
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Reinforced Plastics website last week.
10 December 2013Mark Holmes
Siempelkamp has acquired a 43.85% stake in Wolfangel GmbH and expanded its presence in the composites market.
10 December 2013Mark Holmes
Rice’s research group test for terahertz peaks in batches of pure metallic nanotubes known as “armchairs”.
10 December 2013
29K sq ft expansion entails two 20-ton cranes and two 10-ton cranes to accommodate large equipment orders.
9 December 2013Metal Finishing
Move underlines AkzoNobel's commitment to driving improvements throughout its global supply chains.
9 December 2013Metal Finishing
Sandia National Laboratories researchers have devised a novel way to realize electrical conductivity in metal-organic framework (MOF) materials.
9 December 2013
Jason Humphries to oversee strategies in commercial aerospace, military and energy segments.
9 December 2013Metal Finishing
Global supplier of pigment and chemical dispersions Chromaflo Technologies and integrated tinting specialist CPS Color’s colorant business have merged thei
9 December 2013Mark Holmes
Materials supplier VELOX has formed VELOX Composites GmbH to serve the German composites market and extended it cooperation with Wolfamgel GmbH, the suppli
9 December 2013Mark Holmes
Researchers from the Fraunhofer IWES and the FITT wind energy research team are collaborating on developing a new direct drive 3 MW wind turbine design con
6 December 2013
Researchers have combined cutting-edge experimental techniques and computer simulations to find out how water dissolves crystalline structures
6 December 2013
Researchers have added to a family of engineered, high-tech materials called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs): the ability to conduct electricity.
6 December 2013
A research team used a unique optical metamaterial with a refractive index of zero to generate “phase mismatch–free nonlinear light”.
6 December 2013
Scott Bader has initiated two new joint ventures in Brazil and Saudi Arabia as part of its long-term global business growth strategy.
6 December 2013Mark Holmes
Scientists at SISSA and the Polytechnic University of Catalonia are researching micro-robotics, a field that represents a challenge for the future.
6 December 2013
Hansho Technologies has joined the Seifert and Skinner group of Associates (SSA).
6 December 2013Mark Holmes
A research team at Berkeley Lab has discovered a way to introduce a recoverable strain into bismuth ferrite of up to 14-percent on the nanoscale.
5 December 2013
Clean Technology Business Review has declared Siemens’ wind turbine rotor blade the winner of the ‘Innovation in Renewable Energy’ Award.
5 December 2013Mark Holmes
Graphite Additive Manufacturing, a supplier of 3D printed parts produced in high performance materials, has entered a partnership with plating providers BJ
5 December 2013Mark Holmes
Chinese fibreglass producer Jushi is opening a new plant in Egypt.
5 December 2013Mark Holmes
Approvals cover select ENVIROBASE, DELTRON and NEXA AUTOCOLOR refinish products.
4 December 2013Metal Finishing
Metal Powder Report magazine has formed a new LinkedIn group.
4 December 2013Mark Holmes
The following stories were the most popular with visitors to the Metal Powder Report website last month.
4 December 2013Mark Holmes
Umicore Shokubai Japan, the joint venture between Umicore and Nippon Shokubai, has opened its new technical R&D centre in Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture.
4 December 2013Mark Holmes
The Russian Nanotechnology Centre of Composites (NCC) located in Moscow has recently placed an order for custom-built pultrusion and filament winding proce
4 December 2013Mark Holmes
The Zbee three-wheeler electric vehicle is employing fibre reinforced plastic (FRP) body panels in combination with two Scott Bader structural adhesives: C
3 December 2013Mark Holmes
Centorr Vacuum Industries is building its 6th MIM-Vac M furnace in 2013 expanding its customer base for the Metal Injection Moulding market.
3 December 2013Mark Holmes
New solutions for utilising fiber-based material in the textile process attract global interest.
3 December 2013
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3 December 2013Amanda Jacob
Gharda Plastics has launched a speciality solution for industrial and business appliances, incorporating various reinforcements in G-PAEK and GAZOLE thermo
2 December 2013Mark Holmes
Should we sacrifice part of our cultural heritage in order to achieve greater knowledge of the universe and the origin of humankind?
2 December 2013
Edmar Allitsch has joined the Executive Board of the H.C. Starck group.
2 December 2013Mark Holmes
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2 December 2013Zara Preston
Master Bond has developed EP38CL for bonding, sealing, coating and encapsulation applications that require toughness and durability.
2 December 2013Mark Holmes