Two community colleges and a county development council have received US$100,000 grant from the state of Washington to help establish a composites center of excellence. Edmonds Community College, one of ... Read More

GKN Aerospace Services Structures Corp., a new subsidiary of GKN plc (London) has won a contract to build components for the Joint Strike Fighter. Under the initial US$3.5 million contract, ... Read More

Texas Governor Rick Perry and other state leaders have agreed to offer Boeing $30 million to locate the 7E7 assembly plant in their state. Washington state has offered $3.2 billion ... Read More

Creative Composites, a startup firm in central Iowa, USA, is developing plastic composites reinforced with natural fibers such as jute, hemp and African kefar. Benefits of these composites includes sound ... Read More

Xerox Corp. has developed a pultruded carbon composite for use as an electrically conductive contact. The matrix can be either a thermoplastic or a thermoset. The composite is less susceptible ... Read More

At the Second Annual International Conference on the Space Elevator, science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke predicted a space elevator could be built in 10 years. Conference attendees seem to ... Read More

Reichhold is planning a US$16.5 million expansion of its Morris, Illinois, USA plant, where it produces unsaturated polyester resins for the composites industry.

Jeff Kelly, a recruiter for the composites industry, is looking for a composites manufacturing engineer to fill a position near San Antonio, Texas, USA. The position is a hands-on job ... Read More

Resin Systems Inc. has signed an ongoing Joint Venture agreement with Euro-Projects Limited (EPL) for the Joint Venture to have the exclusive world-wide right for the commercialization of existing and ... Read More

Phoenix is seeing an influx of plastics and composites manufacturers, as companies look outside California for reliable power and lower labor costs. Five companies have located facilities in the Phoenix ... Read More

The new Mercedes SLR McLaren supercar features a bodyshell and chassis made entirely from carbon composites. The vehicle structure is designed to achieve a high level of torsional rigidity, not ... Read More

SOUTH East Derbyshire College has won interim Centre of Vocational Excellence (CoVE) status from Derbyshire Learning and Skills Council to develop special training courses for the growing advanced composites industry. ... Read More

The Wright Flyer III, a replica of the original Wright brothers' airplane, is built of all modern composites. Students at Utah State University spent 10,000 designing and building the aircraft. ... Read More

Researchers at the University of Leeds, England, have developed a method for recycling automotive composites. The materials are heated under relatively low temperatures, breaking them down into gas, oil, carbon ... Read More

The SAMPE 2004 Organizing Committee has extended the Call-for-Papers so that it now falls several weeks after the Technical Conference in order to accommodate authors working on those presentations. The ... Read More

Highlights from the 2003 Frankfurt Motor Show include two cars that use composite materials. The Aston Martin DB9 features aluminum or composite body panels adhesively bonded to the aluminum body ... Read More

A new study by Principia Consulting sees an emerging business opportunity in the injection molding of wood-plastic composites (WPCs). Total WPC demand in 2002 was US$750 million: almost all of ... Read More

RolaTube Technology Ltd produces a collapsible thermoplastic composite that is stable in both coiled and extended forms. Called a Bistable Reeled Composite (BRC), it is somewhat like a metal tape ... Read More

CHC Composites, a division of CHC Helicopter Corporation, has pledged to continue to deliver aerospace composites materials to its customers despite a labor dispute at the Gander manufacturing facility.

Composites One has outgrown its facility in Lakewood, Florida, USA, and will soon move into a new, 75,000 square foot building. The Lakewood facility primarily supplies fiberglass and resin to ... Read More

Eastman Chemical Company will be taking steps to improve profitability in under-performing business segments, including unsaturated polyester resins for composites. The Composites, Liquid Resins and Powder Resins segments had a ... Read More

Wichita State University is one of the sites being considered by the FAA to become the Center of Excellence in composites. WSU would be a good choice: it is the ... Read More