N°121 - may 2018 - JEC Composites Magazine - JEC Composites Magazine Digital Edition

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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.

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The US-based independent manufacturer of composite wind blades announced that it has signed a multiyear supply agreement with Vestas Wind Systems to provide blades from four manufacturing lines for...

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Lightweight composite automotive suspension part Winner : Ford Werke GmbH (Germany) and its partners, Gestamp (United Kingdom), GRM Consulting (United Kingdom) and University of Warwick (United...

The JEC Innovation Awards ceremony, which took place on the Agora stage on Wednesday, March 7 at 5 pm, opened with a presentation by Yves Rossy, aircraft pilot and inventor of the first jet-powered...

Complex structural applications for MAI sandwich technology Winner : Airbus (Germany) and its partners, BMW Group (Germany), Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Germany), Neue Materialien Bayreuth...

Moldless process to manufacture one-piece parts Winner: M. Torres Diseños Industriales SAU (Spain) MTorres developed a new manufacturing process for large composite structures with fullyintegrated...

Series production of a rear panel module made of carbon composite Winner : Audi AG (Germany) and its partners, Voith Composites GmbH & Co. KG (Germany), Dow Automotive (Switzerland), and Zoltek Corp....

Cabkoma cable made of CFRTP Winner: Komatsu Seiren Co., Ltd. ( Japan) and its partners, Kanazawa Institute of Technology ( Japan) and Nagase ChemteX Corporation ( Japan) The Cabkoma CFRTP strand rod...

The Wet Core Pod composite housing module Winner : MC Materiales Compuestos (Argentina) and its partners, Plaquimet (Argentina), Purcom (Brazil), IS Groupe -Composite Integrity (France), and G12...

“3-in-1” line for producing recycled composites Winner : Cetim-Cermat (France) and its partner, CETIM (France) The innovation is a recycling line for both thermoplastics and thermoplastic composite...

A modular construction system for the rear swing arm suspension of a motorcycle Winner: BMW Group (Germany) and its partners EDAG Engineering GmbH (Germany), KraussMaffei Technologies GmbH (Germany),...

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Michelman showcased its Hydrosize Link U470 and U480 fibre sizing products designed to react with polyamide resin matrices. These high-performance sizing products are added during the fibre...

As the composites market pursues automated processes for high-rate production, Porcher Industries’ Dry Fibre offer a new way of processing materials Out-of-Autoclave (OOA). Porcher Industries Dry...

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Airborne introduced its fully automated laminating cell using tape laying, cutting, and pick & place of composite laminates, and showed its automated honeycomb potting solution to fill sandwich...

Tecnatom’s aerospace division showed Wireless Positioning Inspection System (WiiPA), an innovative manual inspection equipment that intended to provide a low-budget solution to some NDT applications...

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Porcher Industries presented thermoplastic strengthening frame components that were developed for the Arches demonstrator on its booth, whilst Stelia Aerospace displayed the fullscale thermoplastic...

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In volume, the global composites market was approximately 10.8 Mt in 2016, growing from 10.4 Mt in 2015. The second largest market, after Asia, is North America (2.8 Mt), representing 26% of the...

In Modena, the homeland of supercars and the Motor Valley of Italy, the first high-performance fully-electric motorcycle, “Ego”, was born at Energica Motor Company S.p.A. Ego was rigorously developed...

The production of prototype tools for injection moulding is extremely complicated and costly, especially when steel or aluminium are used. The tools must therefore be milled and hardened, which means...

The Fast RTM collaborative project led by IRT M2P resulted in the creation of an industrial platform demonstrating the feasibility of mass-produced structural composite automotive parts using reactive...

Lightweighting, improving performance and energy efficiency, customized designs, are only a few of the key challenges composite materials can, and will, help answer. Their exceptional properties...

This article introduces the PuriCoat platform for producing Class A surface quality, visible lightweight components within a very short cycle time. Through close technical collaboration between a...

For single-axle electric power units that are produced for the elec-tric-mobility mass market and for mechanical engineering, achieving cost-effective use depends on finding innovative technologies...

Practically all parts of the Polestar 1 upper body, including the doors, bonnet and boot lid, are made of carbon fibre-reinforced polymer (CFRP) for maximum stiffness, torsional rigidity and...

All big cities across the globe, must address the problem of quick commute for millions of people every day. Kineco has commenced to innovate with composites to tame this unprecedented challenge. As...

As from 2018, train manufacturers and their suppliers have to imple-ment the provisions of the DIN EN 45545-2 binding European railway standard. Inter alia, the standard addresses the fire behaviour...

In 2014, Acrosoma was acquired by VDL Fibertech Industries while continuing to focus on the market for its unique Acrosoma panels. The resources of a large group like VDL (5B€ in sales and a workforce...

Lightweight Vehicle Underbody Protection Winner: Faurecia (France) Partner: Hexion (France) The innovation consists of a composite underbody protection achieving a weight saving of 53%, designed with...

This edition of the JEC Innovation Awards Competition aimed to reward the best cutting-edge and ingenious projects involving the use of composite materials in ground transportation applications....

Design and Fabrication of an Integrated Monocoque Composite 40ft Plug-in Electric Transit Bus Winner: TPI Composites (USA) Partner: Proterra (USA) TPI Composites has designed and produced an all-...

Light-weight Automotive Interior Parts with Natural Fiber Reinforcement Winner Bcomp (Switzerland) Partner: Persico (Italy) The innovation consists of forming, back injection & punching of automotive...

Self-molding, High Heat Composite Insulation System Winner: Saprex (USA) The project consists of a self-molding, PPS, thermoplastic composite insulation system for large bore diesel engine exhaust...

Made of high-performance composite materials, the CompoHouse demonstration building is the result of an innovative reflection to rethink construction specifications from the beginning, focusing on...

With the use of textile concrete, rear-ventilated concrete curtain walls are becoming increasingly popular. Solidian’s non-metallic reinforcements enable the thinnest façade plates (15 to 30mm) in...

The Lightest Tiny Home available. Quantum Tiny Homes are constructed with Insulated, Unitized Fibre-Reinforced Composite Structures Technology. The high-strength fibre-reinforced composite and rigid...

Multi-material hybrid structures combining continuous fibre thermoplastic composites with lower-cost options such as chopped fibre thermoplastic composites and metals are an attractive proposition for...

Designing structural parts made of 3D textile-reinforced materials demands a deep understanding of the different physical phenomena to be accounted for at the individual steps from manufacturing to...

JEC Composites Magazine

N°121 - may 2018

Contents

The Future of Transportation with composites