JEC Composites Magazine is the point of contact of the international Composites Community, 6 times a year, with topics covering scientific information, business, technology, manufacturing, and application sectors trends.
In each and every issue, readers will learn about the entire composites industry value chain (from raw materials to application markets), and be inspired with current and future innovations.
The six sections of the magazine consist in:
- NEWS: with interviews, articles about business development (M&As, appointments, partnerships and collaborations, awards etc.).
- BUSINESS: with articles covering trends and markets, focusing on a specific country or region, with the composites market, or the application markets, or the companies strategies etc. in that country or region, and a startup focus.
- MANUFACTURING: with articles about production processes and processing equipment.
- FEATURE: an in-depth overview of a specific topic (typically an application sector), plus a JEC World Preview in April/May and Review in June/July.
- SOLUTIONS: composites around us, with articles showing how composite materials are being used in applications which impact our everyday lives.
- TECHNOLOGY: with articles about developments in materials, testing and control, repair, joining, design and simulation, recycling and reuse, R&D.
Enjoy your reading!
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FROM THE EDlTORlAL TEAM
Aerospace ambitions, composite solutions
“As I write these lines, September ends and autumn begins. Summer is often expected to bring a quieter news cycle. Not this year. From the Farnborough International Airshow to the wildfires that once...
NEWS
Gurit: sales up 16% in the first half of 2026; Viktor Bernhardt appointed permanent CEO
Gurit, a global developer and manufacturer of advanced composite materials, composite tooling equipment and core kit services, has announced a 16% increase in its net sales for the first half of 2026,...
Rocket Lab to acquire Iridium, creating a fully vertically integrated space group
Rocket Lab, a global leader in launch and space systems, and Iridium Communications, a leading provider of satellite voice, data, Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) services, have entered into a...
McLaren invests +€500 million, doubles size of Composites Technology Centre
McLaren Automotive has announced a historic invest-ment of over £500 million (€583 million) across its four UK sites. The British car manufacturer states that this investment will be used to double...
Sarla Aviation and Hexcel plan composite materials partnership for Indian eVTOL
Indian eVTOL developer Sarla Aviation has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Hexcel, a global provider of carbon fibre reinforcements, resin systems and honeycomb manufacturing, to explore a...
Clean Aviation: 19 projects selected, covering a €664 million research effort
The Clean Aviation Joint Undertaking has selected 19 new European research projects representing a total research effort of €664 million, including €290 million in EU funding. The projects contribute...
Can in-situ AFP both manufacture and join a Type V LNG tank?
DLR and Omnidea-RTG, part of the Omnidea Group, have built a one-metre-diameter Type V LNG tank demonstrator in carbon fibre-reinforced low-melt polyaryletherketone (CF/LM-PAEK). Developed under...
Strata and Embraer explore composite aerostructure collaboration
United Arab Emirates-based Strata Manufacturing and Brazilian aircraft manufacturer Embraer have agreed to assess the potential supply of advanced composite aerostructures for the aircraft company’s...
Andrew Maxey appointed Executive Vice President of IACMI
The Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation, better known as IACMI – The Composites Institute, located in Tennessee, USA, has announced that Andrew Maxey is joining the institute as...
“We are seeing significant growth across the market, especially in defence and space”
The aerospace composites industry is being pulled in several directions at once: towards more resilient European supply chains, faster development, higher performance and greater production...
The long game for composites in automotive
I attended the SPE Automotive Composites Conference and Exhibition (ACCE) recently in Novi, Michigan, US. It got me thinking about the future of composites in cars and trucks. “The automotive industry...
BUSINESS
“Replacing physical testing with predictive understanding”
Born out of the EU AmbliFibre project, Otom Composite is taking automated fibre placement beyond simulation towards a real-time, physics-based digital twin. Amin Zaami explains how the company aims to...
Financing composite recycling scale-up: what makes a project bankable?
Europe will generate over one million tonnes of composite waste per year by 2030. The installed recycling capacity currently covers less than a tenth of that figure. Announcements are plentiful,...
Beyond China, is Southeast Asia the next composites manufacturing hub?
China dominated manufacturing in Asia over the last few decades. Now, as manufacturers diversify their supply chains and make new investments in production hubs, Southeast Asia has started to gain...
New opportunities emerge for advanced composites in Southeast Asia
JEC Forum Southeast Asia, held in Taiwan in June 2026, highlighted the changing landscape of the advanced composites industry across the region. Drawing on Taiwan’s expertise in advanced...
MANUFACTURlNG
Composites as a key enabling technology for human mobility
Founded over 100 years ago, Ottobock is a pioneering and innovative health tech company specialising in prosthetics and orthotics. From everyday mobility to the Paralympic Games and space missions,...
Tooling at the heart of thermoplastic composite overmoulding
The Netherlands-based ThermoPlastic Composites Research Center (TPRC) has joined forces with French mouldmaker Georges Pernoud to develop the tooling for a demonstrator combining stamp forming and...
FEATURE
TPC demand from aerospace finally taking shape
The aerospace industry has known the advantages of thermoplastic composites (TPCs) for decades. What has changed is the scale of production that the industry needs to support now. Stratview Research...
Aerospace composites manufacturing advances in Tamil Nadu
Within the Tamil Nadu Defence Industrial Corridor, Merlinhawk Aerospace and the Italian company Vega Composites have opened an end-to-end production facility with an ISO 7 cleanroom facility and...
From Earth to orbit: the composites behind the next generation of flight
In space, every kilogram counts, but weight is only one aspect of the materials challenge. Spacecraft must be able to withstand extreme launch loads, temperature fluctuations, thermal stresses,...
“We see a shift towards standardisation, faster production and cost reduction”
Dr Christian Weimer, Thrust Lead Materials, Head of Materials X and CTO at Airbus Defence and Space, discusses how the demands placed on composites are evolving as the space industry moves towards...
Composite structures at the heart of hybrid-electric aircraft design
California-based Heart Aerospace made headlines in mid-August with the first flight of the demonstrator version of its ES-30, a 30-seat hybrid-electric aircraft. Stefan Nothdurfter, Heart's Senior...
“There is an unprecedented demand for aerospace composites in China”
Originally a wind energy and new energy vehicle composites specialist, Jiangsu Aosheng has expanded into aerospace with AS9100D-certified carbon fibre manufacturing capabilities. It targets aircraft,...
From prototype to production in half the time
The rapid prototyping process developed by Greene Tweed for its Xycomp Discontinuous Long Fibre (DLF) thermoplastic material is cutting lead times by around 50%. On a recent defence programme, it...
Composite wing spar proves its strength at full scale
French engineering office 49Sud is coordinating the development of key composite structures for Climate Impulse, the liquidhydrogen aircraft being developed for an attempt at a non-stop, zero-emission...
Composites for cryogenics: from superconductors to hydrogen-powered aircraft
With over 20 years’ experience engineering composite cryogenic vessels, Fabrum is advancing its liquid hydrogen tanks towards certified aviation and motorsport applications, combining low weight,...
Combining composites and metals for aerospace performance
Polar Technology is extending its work on hybrid compositemetal structures through two aerospace developments, an electroformed leading-edge protection created with Ultima Forma, and hybrid gears...
SOLUTIONS
Composite bodies take on wildland firefighting
US manufacturer BFX Fire Apparatus uses lightweight fibre-composite bodies for its Brush Trucks, specialist vehicles designed for wildland firefighting and off-road operation. Mounted on light...
Carbon composite floats for a new amphibious water bomber
Converting a regional aircraft into an amphibious water bomber without the fuselage coming into direct contact with the water: this is how Positive Aviation is developing the FF72. The aircraft, which...
GFRP battens play a supporting role in aerial firefighting
Aerial firefighting places unusual demands on materials: equipment suspended beneath a helicopter must combine low weight with resistance to impacts, abrasion, chemicals and repeated loading. New...
TECHNOLOGY
A new class of carbon-ceramic hybrid fibres
The carbon-ceramic hybrid fibre MAXCarbon represents a novel material concept that integrates the distinctive properties of ceramic MAX phases with the benefits inherent in carbon fibres. The...
Industrial recycling pathway for GFRP waste
As pressure grows to find real alternatives to landfill and incineration for Glass Fibre Reinforced Polymer (GFRP) waste, Cetma and Cormatex propose an industrial route that turns glass fibre scraps...
Engineered bio-based cork thermal protection
Reusable launch systems require thermal protection that combines reliable insulation and ablation with faster inspection and refurbishment. Within the EU-funded SALTO project, consortium partner...
Bionics Group: biomimicry and 4D printing for innovative composites
Bionics is the science that uses living models for technology-driven innovation. It is based on the study of the functional morphology of biological systems and on the application of their key...
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