Market data providers IHS Automotive forecasts global automotive sales for 2015 to reach 88.6 million, an increase of 2.4% over 2014.
27 February 2015
TeXtreme has added to its line of Spread Tow products with wider UD tapes.
27 February 2015
Dendrites create fire hazards and can limit the ability of batteries to power our smart phones and store renewable energy for a rainy day.
27 February 2015
Adding about one per cent of nanoparticles by weight makes the solar cells more efficient, according to the findings of a team of scientists.
27 February 2015
AOC Resins has made some additions to its leadership team.
26 February 2015
A new initiative involving Elsevier’s engineering journals, editors, authors and referees – titled Engineering Advances.
26 February 2015Joe D'Angelo
We are pleased to bring to your attention the Special Issue on Progress in Polymer Hybrid Materials, published in Progress in Polymer Science.
26 February 2015Rumen Duhlev
A 3D printed skiboot made from Windform SP has won a prize at health and fitness show ISPO Munich.
26 February 2015
The ExOne Company says that all five of its production service centers (PSCs) in North America have ISO 9001:2008 certification.
26 February 2015
Thompson Creek Metals Company Inc says that from December 2014, its Thompson Creek Mine has been placed on care and maintenance and the Endako Mine has bee
26 February 2015
Fonon Technologies, a supplier of laser-based materials processing systems for 3D printing, has assumed full control of Mabwe Minerals Inc, a natural resou
25 February 2015
Porcher industries has developed towpreg technology suitable for automated and advanced fiber placement (AFP) and filament winding.
25 February 2015
Adding MgO nanoparticles to polymer composite scaffolds helps bone-forming cells stick.
25 February 2015Cordelia Sealy
CTruk has finalised plans to invest around £7.3 million for the construction of an Advanced Composite Technology Centre, incorporating a training facility,
25 February 2015
JEC Group says that Ron Garan, a decorated former NASA astronaut will be the special guest keynote speaker for the JEC Americas Composites Show which takes
24 February 2015
Thin Solid Films, Freely Available Online: Collection of invited critical review papers published in 2014.
24 February 2015Zara Preston
Scientists are interested in using gels to deliver drugs designed to release their payload over a specified time period.
24 February 2015
University of Pennsylvania researchers have made an advance in manufacturing one such material, molybdenum disulphide.
24 February 2015
Scientists from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering at the Carlos III University of Madrid have carried out resear
24 February 2015
The Future Materials Group (FMG), which acts as an adviser to the composite manufacturing sector, has opened new UK facilities as part of its plans for exp
24 February 2015
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23 February 2015
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23 February 2015
23 February 2015Eleonora Presani
At this year’s JEC Europe, FORMAX, a manufacturer of bespoke lightweight multiaxial reinforcements, is introducing a range of biaxial fabrics made from int
23 February 2015
Magnum Venus Products (MVP) plans to debut two new products at JEC, which takes place in March.
20 February 2015
The ExOne Company has introduced Innovent, a 3D printing system designed especially for research and education.
20 February 2015
Technical Fibre Products (TFP) plan to introduce an extended range of thermoplastic veils including PPS, PEI, PEEK, polyamide and polyimide.
20 February 2015
LPW Technology has announced a strategic partnership with Shaanxi 3D Technology to develop the use of metal powders for additive manufacturing (AM) in Chin
20 February 2015
Modeling the amount of plastic waste that ends up in the world's oceans.
20 February 2015Laurie Donaldson
Michelman has been chosen to be part of the 122-member consortium that will make up the new Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation (IAC
19 February 2015
MIM and 3D printing conglomerate ARC Group Worldwide Inc reports that its second quarter fiscal year 2015 revenue was US$27.1 million, an increase of 35.9%
19 February 2015
Arcam has received an order for one of its Arcam Q20 system from LAI International in Phoenix. The system will be used for production of aerospace componen
19 February 2015
Specialized peptides binds with nanoparticles to help improve lithium-ion batteries.
19 February 2015Laurie Donaldson
New type of superconducting transistor that can be switched reversibly between on and off positions using light irradiation.
19 February 2015Laurie Donaldson
Novel material for efficient plasmonic devices in mid-IR range.
18 February 2015Laurie Donaldson
Hidden order revealed, cracking a cryo puzzle.
18 February 2015David Bradley
The AMRC’s Composite Centre has invested £150,000 in an FT Dornier Rapier Loom, which can weave composites without the risk of the highly electrically cond
18 February 2015
Dassault Systèmes has introduced SOLIDWORKS Industrial Design, the second SOLIDWORKS application on its 3DEXPERIENCE platform.
18 February 2015
Kyocera is joining forces with the Turkish industrial enterprise Bilginoglu Endüstri as part of a joint venture.
18 February 2015
Malvern Instruments plans to exhibit its Mastersizer 3000 laser diffraction particle size analyzer, along with the recently introduced HydroSight imaging a
17 February 2015
Huntsman Advanced Materials has released a new website which provides a guide to its range of Araldite Industrial adhesives.
17 February 2015
General Moly Inc has reached an agreement with POS-Minerals Corporation to use restricted cash of up to US$36 million to invest in the Mt. Hope molybdenum
17 February 2015
KittyHawk, an airplane with an innovative carbon blended structure will claim the JEC Innovation Award at the European composites show on 10-12 March 2015.
17 February 2015
Avure Technologies, a manufacturer of ultra-high pressure systems, has opened an Application Center in Västerås, Sweden, for the development of hot and col
16 February 2015
PPE plans to launch its EASYPERM system, which measures and evaluates the ability of reinforcement to let resin flow, at the JEC Composites Show.
16 February 2015
Wiggling and evolving carbon nanotube bugs.
16 February 2015David Bradley
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15 February 2015
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15 February 2015
Biomimetic nanosheets based on microbial armor.
15 February 2015David Bradley
The University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre (AMRC) is to lead a new £6 million European-funded project to develop an advanced lightw
13 February 2015
A lightweight, 8 m NOX SV wooden motorboat has been put together using Sicomin materials.
13 February 2015
Swiss group Schweiter Technologies, which owns 3A Composites, has entered into an agreement to acquire Polish company Plastwag.
13 February 2015
3D Systems (3DS) has been awarded two research contracts worth over US$1 million to develop advanced manufacturing capabilities for aerospace and defense.
13 February 2015
Scientists have shown that gold nanotubes have many applications in fighting cancer.
13 February 2015
Scientists used supercomputers to find a new class of materials that possess an exotic state of matter known as the quantum spin Hall effect.
13 February 2015
Engineers from Trinity College Dublin are leading a four-year, €500,000 European Space Agency (ESA) project to fine-tune cold spray (CS) technology, which
12 February 2015
Composites Germany has published its most recent report on current and future developments in composites.
12 February 2015
RTP Company has expanded its Very Long Fiber Reinforced Polypropylene (PP VLF) portfolio to include a range of low emission products.
12 February 2015
Thermal processing specialist Harper International has finalized a contract for more than US$3 million to supply high temperature vertical and rotary react
12 February 2015
A new report suggests that 3D printing’s market share will increase to 40% by the end of the year, boosted by a trend toward personal manufacturing and sma
11 February 2015
Aerospace composite supplier Albany Engineered Composites (AEC) has joined forces with automotive engineering and consulting company Ricardo to develop com
11 February 2015
3A Composites has developed AIREXT10, a new PET-based structural core material for high volume sandwich applications.
11 February 2015
Research undertaken by Linde LLC and Megamet Solid Metals Inc suggests that using ‘best practice’ in the control of the carbon potential in the sintering z
11 February 2015
Atlas Pressed Metals’ senior metallurgist, Dr. Craig Stringer, recently presented sintering research results at the APMI International Western Pennsylvania
10 February 2015
A French bike manufacturer has developed the NYX 2015 Frame Kit, which can convert an existing bicycle into an electric bike.
10 February 2015
Umicore has reported that its revenues were €2.4 billion, just 1% higher compared to 2013, noting that growth in its Catalysis and Energy Materials busines
10 February 2015
Johns Manville, a manufacturer of building and specialty products, plans to showcase its Short Fiber Thermoplastics at the JEC show in March.
10 February 2015
Welcome to the Virtual Microscope, the integrated browser based slide viewer that provides access to high resolution whole slide images.
9 February 2015Zara Preston
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9 February 2015
Ahlstrom says that it may lay off a maximum of 20 people at its Karhula plant in Finland.
9 February 2015
The global thermal spray market will grow steadily at a CAGR of 8.13% over the period 2014-2019, a new report suggests.
8 February 2015
Airtech plans to launch two new products at the JEC 2015 show in March.
6 February 2015
Arcam AB, a supplier of additive manufacturing (AM) machines, has reported that its net sales increased by 70% to SEK339.0 million in 2014, compared to SEK
6 February 2015
LPW Technology has recently added ISO 13485 certification for medical supply to its existing quality control standards, AS 9100 and AS 9120 for aerospace,
6 February 2015
Custom Composites' glass fiber tubes have been supplied to Delta-T Devices to form part of the company’s soil moisture sensors.
6 February 2015
From now on, when you submit an manuscript to Acta Biomaterialia, we request that you include a short statement of significance.
6 February 2015Baptiste Gault
Investing in sustainable technology is key to developing and commercializing carbon fiber, a new report suggests.
5 February 2015
Leading pump manufacturer Concentric AB has acquired GKN Sinter Metals de Argentina SA, a supplier of engine pumps in South America.
5 February 2015
The 2015 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to the ground-breaking chemical engineer Dr Robert Langer.
5 February 2015
Scott Bader is exhibiting Fix-Rcryl 10, a new roof repair and refurbishment glass fibre reinforced plastic (GRP) coating system at the Ecobuild 2015 exhibi
5 February 2015
PTI Engineered Plastics has moved into metal 3D printing with its acquisition of a Lumex Avance-25, made by Matsuura Japan.
5 February 2015
Gurit has reported unaudited full year net sales of CHF 335.8 million, representing an increase of 19.4% compared with net sales of CHF 281.1 million for t
4 February 2015
Materials Today lead the way to make it simple for authors to publicly share peer-reviewed, curated, formatted, indexed, citable raw research data.
4 February 2015Baptiste Gault
Anaglyph plans to exhibit its range of composites design and analysis software tools at the JEC Show, which takes place in Paris, France from 10-12 March.
4 February 2015
Zecotek Photonics says that it has developed a way of producing metal powders for 3D printing that has a number of benefits over traditional techniques.
4 February 2015
Indian PM and metallurgy specialist Hanumanthu Purushotham has been appointed chairman and MD of the National Research Development Corporation (NRDC), New
4 February 2015
We’re celebrating the International Year of Light with a video contest where we ask you to tell us what light means to you.
4 February 2015Zara Preston
Examining two new report by NREL into trade-offs of owning of leasing photovoltaic systems.
4 February 2015Laurie Donaldson
Molycorp Inc says that Q4 2014 rare earth production at its Mountain Pass, California mine nearly doubled that of the previous quarter.
3 February 2015
Elsevier, the publisher of Reinforced Plastics, has launched the Knovel Polymer Matrix Composites Database.
3 February 2015
Using a medium to compress and shorten intense laser pulses.
3 February 2015Laurie Donaldson
Valleytronics offers an alternative approach to spintronics.
3 February 2015David Bradley
Carpenter Technology reported net sales of US$548.4 million, compared to net sales of US$503.5 million in Q2 2014.
3 February 2015
Royal DSM has upgraded facilities in its Wilmington, Massachusetts plan to produce improved waterborne resins for inks and coatings.
3 February 2015
UK additive manufacturing (AM) leader Renishaw has reported that its first half year revenue increased 36%, from £164.0 million to £223.8 million.
2 February 2015
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2 February 2015
Wisconsin Thermoset Molding Inc (WTM) and Rose Polymer Composites LLC, makers of composite molded parts, have joined forces in a merger.
2 February 2015
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2 February 2015
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2 February 2015Zara Preston
Researchers have created ceramics from lunar dust that could be used for structural applications on the moon.
2 February 2015Laurie Winkless
Dentists and engineers find that that soft drinks really do damage your teeth.
2 February 2015Laurie Winkless