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!
Contents
The sky clears
There was plenty of good news for the aeronautical sector in early June 2010. On the first day – 8 June 2010 – of the ILA Airshow in Berlin, Emirates Airlines placed an order for thirty-two additional...
N°159 - november 2024
N°158 - september 2024
N°157 - july 2024
N°156 - may 2024
N°155 - march 2024
N°154 - january 2024
N°153 - november 2023
N°152 - september 2023
N°151 - june 2023
N°150 - april 2023
N°149 - january 2023
N°148 - november 2022
N°147 - september 2022
N°146 - june 2022
N°145 - april 2022
N°144 - january 2022
N°149 - january 2022
N°143 - november 2021
N°142 - september 2021
N°141 - july 2021
N°140 - may 2021
N°139 - march 2021
N°138 - january 2021
N°137 - november 2020
N°136 - september 2020
N°135 - july 2020
N°134 - may 2020
N°133 - march 2020
N°132 - january 2020
N°131 - november 2019
N°130 - september 2019
N°129 - july 2019
N°128 - may 2019
N°127 - march 2019
N°126 - january 2019
N°125 - november 2018
N°124 - october 2018
N°123 - august 2018
N°122 - july 2018
N°121 - may 2018
N°120 - april 2018
N°119 - march 2018
N°118 - january 2018
N°117 - november 2017
N°116 - october 2017
N°115 - august 2017
N°114 - july 2017
N°113 - june 2017
N°112 - april 2017
N°111 - march 2017
N°110 - january 2017
N°109 - november 2016
N°108 - october 2016
N°107 - august 2016
N°106 - july 2016
N°105 - june 2016
N°104 - april 2016
N°103 - march 2016
N°102 - january 2016
N°101 - november 2015
N°100 - october 2015
N°99 - september 2015
N°98 - july 2015
N°97 - may 2015
N°96 - april 2015
N°95 - march 2015
N°94 - january 2015
N°93 - december 2014
N°92 - october 2014
N°91 - august 2014
N°90 - june 2014
N°89 - may 2014
N°88 - april 2014
N°87 - march 2014
N°86 - january 2014
N°85 - november 2013
N°84 - october 2013
N°83 - august 2013
N°82 - july 2013
N°81 - may 2013
N°80 - april 2013
N°79 - march 2013
N°78 - january 2013
N°77 - december 2012
N°76 - october 2012
N°75 - august 2012
N°74 - july 2012
N°73 - june 2012
N°72 - april 2012
N°71 - march 2012
N°70 - january 2012
N°69 - november 2011
N°68 - october 2011
N°67 - august 2011
N°66 - july 2011
N°65 - may 2011
N°64 - april 2011
N°63 - march 2011
N°62 - january 2011
N°61 - november 2010
N°60 - october 2010
N°59 - august 2010
N°57 - may 2010
N°56 - april 2010
N°55 - february 2010
N°54 - january 2010
N°53 - november 2009
N°52 - october 2009
N°51 - september 2009
N°50 - july 2009
N°49 - june 2009
N°48 - may 2009
N°47 - march 2009
N°46 - january 2009
EDITORIAL
The sky clears
There was plenty of good news for the aeronautical sector in early June 2010. On the first day – 8 June 2010 – of the ILA Airshow in Berlin, Emirates Airlines placed an order for thirty-two additional...
COMPANIES
AN INTERVIEW WITH MR. FLORENT TROUBAT PRÉSIDENT, CHOMARAT
JEC Composites Magazine: Is managing to stay a family-run company for 110 years a key to success? FLORENT TROUBAT : It certainly has been a determining factor for the Chomarat group, where the family...
Chomarat, the next century
More than a century after it was founded, family-run group Chomarat is aiming for sales of €175 million in 2010. With a foothold on four continents, 1,700 employees, and a rapidly developing line of...
Agreements and partnerships
Toray signs agreement with Airbus to supply carbon fibre prepreg On 10 May 2010, Toray announced that it has signed a long-term basic supply agreement with the aerospace and defence company EADS to...
Development
PPG restarts fibre glass furnace in North Carolina PPG Industries’ fibre glass business announced on 12 May 2010 that it has restarted a furnace at its facility in Shelby, N.C. The restart supports...
INNOVATION
Honeycombs produced by laser welding
A customized honeycomb can now be made out of any thermoplastic material supplied in the form of a thin sheet reinforced or not with fibres or webs. The sheet can be watertight, porous or even...
Unidirectional dry CFRP tapes
The increasing use of carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) in sectors such as airplane and automotive engineering calls for automated manufacturing solutions. The current prepreg solutions are...
Breakthrough in intermediate modulus carbon fiber
The new decade opens with Hexcel launching an Intermediate Modulus carbon fiber that meets the industry challenge of achieving over 1,000 ksi (6 894,8 MPa) tensile strength performance, without...
BUSINESS
Global glass-fibre production: changes across the board
The global glass-fibre production landscape has changed considerably over the past two years, featuring market concentration and/or consolidation along with the appearance of new players, mainly in...
AN INTERVIEW WITH DR. MICHAEL EFFING, PRESIDENT, DSM COMPOSITE RESINS
JEC Composites Magazine: Everyone is going green these days. Is it a passing fad or a long-standing trend? DR. MICHAEL EFFING: This will definitely be a long-standing trend which will, in fact,...
New bio-based materials for a sustainable economy
DSM introduced two bio-based performance materials for the automotive industry in response to the increasing customer demand for sustainable products. This marks an important step in the company’s...
Exploiting the potential of textile-reinforced composites
The Institut für Textiltechnik of the RWTH Aachen University (Germany) and the Metallurgy & Materials Engineering Department of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) have launched a new...
FEATURE AUTOMOTIVE
Current prospects for the 2009-2028 market
These market prospects (source Boeing) reflect our longterm forecast for air transport. Travel values The amazing resilience of the air transport sector is clearly reflected in the forecasts that we...
North West England: an attractive region for composites and aerospace
With Europe’s 12th largest economy of almost £120 billion, England’s Northwest is home to 252,000 businesses. England’s Northwest is constituted of 5 sub-regions: Manchester, Liverpool, Lancashire,...
High-performance nanocomposites from a one-step process
The “solvent-free one-pot synthesis” method has been developed as an effective, low-cost process to prepare silica/epoxy nanocomposites. A uniformly dispersed, strongly adhered silica/epoxy system is...
The quest for lighter and stronger aircraft with realistic simulation
The aluminium age in new aircraft design is all but over. Aircraft manufacturers in every market are increasingly looking to composite materials to create vehicles that are lighter, stronger and...
Streamlining automated processes for composite airframe manufacturing
With the commercial aerospace industry spreading out across the globe, OEMs are facing growing pressure to be first to market with state-of-the-art aircraft. When you add the volatility of fuel prices...
Fibre-placed, variable-stiffness composite:
Fibre-placed, variable-stiffness composites could be the next generation of composite aerospace structures. They offer designers more freedom to tailor load paths by continuously changing the laminate...
EB²: a new solution for assembling composites
Because the mechanical behaviour of composite materials doesn’t always allow the use of standard assembly methods, the mass influx of composites in aeronautics brings with it a whole new set of...
New thermoplastic composite design concepts and their automated manufacture
Thermoplastic composites have inherent properties that make them ideally suited for low-weight, low-cost aerospace structures. These composites boast high toughness, reprocessability and excellent...
USERS’ PLATFORM
CC aa rr bb oo nn -- ff ii bb rr ee iPad case
According to DRO Concepts, this is the only real carbon-fibre case available for the Apple iPad that utilizes a proprietary lay-up of real carbon fibre and is also incredibly strong and ultra light....
Velcro for low-cost 3D composites
The new international patent-pending approach from Advanced Fiber Materials Technologies, Co., Ltd. uses velcro on both sides of fibre sheets and 2D laying technology to produce 3D composites with...
A revolutionary cityscape bridge with a maintenance-free GRP deck
The town of Reinbek on the outskirts of Hamburg, Germany, has installed an innovative bridge featuring a deck made of a maintenance-free composite/glass-fibre reinforced plastic (GRP). The solution...
KNOW-HOW
Angle-interlock reinforcements: weaving and the mechanical properties of composites
Composites reinforced with layer-to-layer angle-interlock fabrics are known for their high resistance to delamination and impact damage, but their intricate fibrous architecture makes their mechanical...
myRTM, a new tool for RTM process design
The Institute for Materials Technology and Plastics Processing (IWK) has developed a user-friendly software program to simulate RTM processes. Thanks to a new approach based on cellular automats, fast...
New process for high-temperature carbon fibre moulding
Start-up company RocTool has earned a reputation for its Cage System® process. Now RocTool is introducing its new complementary 3iTech® technology, a new family of induction heating processes with...
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