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Three global leaders partner to deliver global solution to create lighter, stronger, more durable, and environmentally efficient vehicles TOLEDO, Ohio, March 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Owens Corning (NYSE: OC), the leading global producer of glass fiber reinforcements for composite systems, today formally announced its inclusion in a strategic alliance with BASF and TenCate Advanced Composites. The goal of the alliance is to develop optimal solutions in thermoplastic composites for...
Reinforced plastics market report segments the market on the basis of product i.e type of plastic and type of fiber reinforcement. (PRWEB) July 14, 2012 Reinforced plastics are composite materials made by reinforcing plastics with different types of fibers. Fibers used for reinforcing plastics include glass, carbon, or aramid, metals and other non metallic fibres such as paper, wood or asbestos. The emergence of new technologies has also contributed positively to the growth of reinforced...
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., July 11, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Fuel efficiency and low carbon emission regulations are playing a major role in raising global demand to incorporate lightweight composites and replace metal parts in automotive components. Furthermore, major Western economies have begun to witness increased consumer spending, particularly in the luxury and super-luxury car segments, the majority of which utilize carbon composite components. Analysis from Frost & Sullivan...
HOUSTON, Oct. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- (PINKSHEETS: AGHD) Augrid Corporation's Carbon Composite Technologies (CCT) subsidiary is pleased to announce its proprietary fiber architectures, which complement its resistive and inductive heating technology to produce fiber reinforced plastics (FRP) and concrete parts. Those products are manufactured more cost effectively based on lower tooling costs, faster through put speed, and better degree of cure and less energy consumption with the ability...
A University of Arizona engineering professor may have a solution to a U.S. infrastructure problem that's growing deadlier each year. The national Gas Technology Institute (GTI) recently published a test report approving a new technology called PipeMedic that uses carbon and glass laminates to repair and replace failing gas pipelines. GTI is a nonprofit research and development organization serving the natural gas industry. PipeMedic technology was developed by Mo Ehsani, professor...
Just imagine your car suddenly comes to a halt on a quiet country road, and it's only four years old. This is not a pleasant thought. A breakdown is expensive. Not to mention the safety risk to the occupants "“ because the breakdown was caused by the extremely light plastic wheels so highly praised by the car salesman. One of them has broken. "Such a scenario must, of course, never happen in reality," states Prof. Dr.-Ing. Andreas Büter from the Fraunhofer Institute for...
A car's crash components can spell the difference between life and death. Their job is to absorb energy in a collision in order to protect the driver inside. Researchers have now found a way for the automotive industry to mass-produce a particularly safe class of materials known as thermoplastic fiber composite components.Vehicles used to be predominantly made of steel. However, this raw material has long faced stiff competition from other materials, and modern cars are now built from a...
TROY, Mich., April 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Altair (www.altair.com), a global provider of technology and services empowering client innovation and decision making, today announced the addition to its HyperWorks Enabled Community (HWEC) of DIGIMAT by e-Xstream engineering (www.e-Xstream.com), a developer of leading nonlinear multi-scale modeling technology for composite materials and structures. HyperWorks users can now download the latest versions of Digimat-MF, Digimat-MX, Map and DIGIMAT to...
SEATTLE, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- SGL Group and BMW Group jointly announced today at an event in Seattle that their joint venture, SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers LLC, will build a state-of-the-art carbon fiber manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, WA. During the initial phase, US$ 100 million will be invested and 80 local jobs will be created. The new facility is an important element of both companies' strategy to commercialize viable manufacturing of ultra light weight carbon fiber reinforced...
Lightweight, sturdy, and non-corrosive: fiber-reinforced thermoplastics are an ideal material for making boats and cars, and for aerospace engineering . But up to now, processing the raw materials was considered laborious and costly. At the JEC Composites Show 2010 in Hall 1, Booth T18 Fraunhofer researchers will show how lasers can make the manufacturing of structures out of fiber-reinforced thermoplastics efficient, clean, reliable and automatic. The lighter, the better. Mountains are...
