N°63 - march 2011 - 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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Automotive industry seeks for talented engineers specialized in Composites. Many projects need light and strong structures. Here the case of BMW, which to realize projects such as Megacity, needs to...

As with a number of business sectors, China has high objectives in the composite industry and no intention of playing a minor part. The crisis has shown that its domestic market is now capable of...

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Currently, at least 315,000 metric tons of biocomposites reinforced by natural fibres are already being used in the European industry, mainly in the automotive and construction sectors. By 2020, this...

Natural fibres are destined to develop in the composite sector, to judge by the Maprofi project on “Controlling hemp fibre properties for use in polymer-based agro-composites”, which was officially...

Can technical flax open the way to eco-composites by becoming the third most-used fibre after glass and carbon? The issue has been raised, and manufacturing confederation Fimalin aims to make...

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In today’s green-oriented society, a composite recycling system is a real necessity. With this in mind, the author of the present article has been trying to develop a new chemical recycling method....

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Winner: NRG Wheels Ltd (UK) Partners: Huntsman Advanced Materials GmbH, Cristex (UK) and The University of Bristol Ltd. (UK) The wheels are made of a forged magnesium/ aluminium alloy hub. Specially-...

AEC Polymers® has developed a new range of structural adhesives with exceptional performance that do not require any primer or surface preparation. These adhesives can be used to assemble all types of...

After the successful global launch of ThermHex technology for packaging applications, EconCore is intensively exploring new material combinations, beyond single-material sandich panel concepts. The...

Teufelberger and its partners are presenting the T-Igel® hybrid pin connection in various composite applications during JEC 2011. The T-Igel® is a unique solution for joining composite structures to...

The Quarzwerke Group is a globally active family-owned company with a leading market position in the mining and processing of various mineral raw materials. Its more than 125 years of experience and...

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Polymer Technologies’ latest technology makes it possible to produce nanosilica epoxy or hardeners at much lower cost than traditional methods. The elongated nanosilica (aspect ratio >1) further...

Nittobo has developed a new type of glass fibre, the FF and HIS variable-shape glass fibres, designed to improve the performance of FRTP (fibre reinforced thermoplastic) moulds. While conventional...

Magnolia Plastics, Chamblee, GA, USA recently developed two low-density, flame-resistant epoxies for aerospace applications. Magnolia 7068 A/B is a lightweight (0.80 g/cc) epoxy with excellent...

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Ilium specializes in manufacturing structural fibre glass reinforcements. Thanks to a new patented technology, Ilium has developed a range of glass fibre reinforcements for the composite industry...

Haufler Composites is a manufacturer of custom-made semi-products consisting of carbon fabrics and thermosetting or thermoplastic matrices. The company produces high-performance CF/PEEK boards...

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Toho Tenax is developing a range of forward-integrated carbon-fibre-based products. The most advanced of these products are Tenax®-based thermoplastics. A new production line for Tenax® TPUD prepreg...

A new family of high performance DCPD (dicyclopentadiene) based formulations have been developed by Telene SAS. The Telene® 1800 series overcome sensitivity to water and moisture, enabling new...

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The Galtzaberde innovation is the first styrene-free polyester liner to be produced in Europe. Literally translated from Basque, galtzaberde means “green sock”. The innovation is a big first for the...

Carbon nanotubes (CNT) need to be available in a well manageable form and maximized concentration to take advantage of their exceptional characteristics. Invent GmbH successfully developed such a...

Nabaltec offers a broad range of viscosity-optimized ATH products for the production of flame-retardant materials based on liquid resins. These Nabaltec products comply with the strictest standards....

5M is a major manufacturer of raw materials for composite production (epoxy resins, semipregs, pultruded profiles, sandwich panels). Backed by its in-house laboratory and R&D department, 5M is...

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Robotmaster® offers a powerful software solution for programming industrial robots to perform tasks. This integrated robot programming, simulation and program generation solution uses industry-proven...

AKPA Chemicals specializes in the production of organic peroxides, initiators and accelerators for the composite and plastics industries. At JEC Composites Paris 2011, the AKPA® booth will exhibit the...

Bishop GmbH offers advanced capabilities in non-linear finite-element analysis of composite structures, more particularly impact, delamination and crack propagation investigations. These analyses are...

Mikrosam’s engineering team has designed and manufactured an award-winning automatic cut & restart mechanism for wet impregnated fibres (patent pending). Mikrosam will be presenting this mechanism...

Harper now offers unique multi-flow oxidation ovens to complement its world-leading thermal processing solutions, from furnaces to complete process lines for carbon fibre. Available in both research...

FiberSIM® 2010 delivers key capabilities to optimize designs and increase productivity throughout the composite design and manufacturing cycle. Features include: - preserving composite design intent:...

Erbo GmbH is presenting a world first in the field of suction technology for milling machines. Previously, suction extraction had been impossible for five-axis milling machines. Erbo has developed a...

Gebe2 Productique designs and manufactures turnkey production equipment for producing parts made of composite materials. We propose solutions not only for the different steps of the manufacturing...

Forest-Liné has been continuously improving the carbon-fibre prepreg layup technology, now offering the Atlas/Access V2 tape laying solution and the Atlas FP fibre placement system. The Forest-Liné V2...

An innovative system capable of fully curing several types of resins has been developed by AIMPLAS. The system is suitable for all part sizes and has already been tested with polyester, vinylester and...

Gunnar International, Weissenberger AG is a Swiss-based company that develops, produces and globally sells high-tech, innovative computercontrolled cutting machines. Gunnar is presenting its Technical...

A reasonable amount of heat energy is required for the fibre oxidation ovens and carbonisation furnaces used in the production of carbon fibre. Substances such as hydrogen cyanide (HCN), ammonia...

The HP-RTM process will play a key role in automotive production, where it will be used for manufacturing carbon-fibre composite components. In cooperation with KraussMaffei, Dieffenbacher has...

Fontijne hydraulic laboratory platen presses are used in the polymerprocessing, rubber, laminating/wood and aircraft industries. The presses are mostly utilized for R&D and quality control in...

Twenty-five years after its first ultrasonic machine, Creno has developed an advanced new concept for honeycomb component machining. The Creno 5 Axis Ultrasonic is a high-accuracy, high-volume milling...

Dieffenbacher developed the new D-SMC process in a consortium together with DSM and the Fraunhofer ICT. The direct compounding technology bypasses the costly wrapping, storing and logistical-handling...

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Feasibility strongly depends on the optical properties of the welding component. The upper welding component needs to be sufficiently transparent to guide the laser radiation into the welding area....

The Hilger u. Kern/Dopag Group is offering a metering and mixing system for the production of fibre-reinforced plastics. The Eldomix 603 is a solvent-free gear metering system used to process low- to...

Polyprocess develops a full system of efficient products, and has succeeded in boosting their performance by optimizing or developing specific features of the different complementary chemical...

A major partner covering all industries for nearly 30 years, Stäubli Robotics has developed a high-speed machining robot, the RX170 HSM (high-speed machining). The robot’s main features include a...

WeiDe designs, manufactures and exports manufacturing equipment for FRP pipes, FRP tanks and pressure vessels used in the water, sewage, hydro-power, construction, engineering, municipal, chemistry,...

At the JEC show in Paris, Robust Habicht & Heuser GmbH & Co. KG (Remscheid) is presenting their cross-cut, slitting and winding technology for composites, which can be precisely designed to match the...

Respecta has developed a new generation of VacuCast machines for the electrical insulator and cast-resin busbar industry. Customers are now able to use automated processcontrolled casting equipment to...

Plasticell will display a laser-welding demonstrator for thermoplastic and thin composite sheets. This R&D tool was developed with Innoptics, a start-up which specializes in the design and...

Unveiled in 2009, the highly rewarded “Radius-Pultrusion” technology allows the continuous production of curved and bent profiles for the first time. As straight fibre-reinforced profiles cannot be...

The innovative new technologies (FIT Hybrid and SpriForm) developed by Jacob Plastics for largescale production of structures made from thermoplastic fibre-reinforced composites combine forming and...

Flugzeug-Union Süd (FUS) is the official distributor for the Richmond/Aerovac range of vacuum bagging and tooling materials in Germany and other German-speaking countries. Aerovac vacuum bagging...

Fiberforge is a leading-edge technology company that focuses specifically on the design and production of advanced long-fibre-reinforced thermoplastic composite parts. The company has developed a...

This new self-sealed permanent vacuum bag can be reused (100 cycles) on any lay-up tool (composite, aluminium, galvanized) without integrated vacuum sealing device/channel. The benefits of this...

How can you optimise your raw materials and increase your productivity? Richmond Aerovac introduces films pre-cut to your exact size requirements to improve the process of manufacturing composite...

Cutting tool and tooling solutions provider Sandvik Coromant will highlight a number of new product and business developments for the composite-machining market. Twelve months ago, Precorp and Sandvik...

Airtech Advanced Materials Group, which includes Airtech International in the USA, Airtech Europe in Luxembourg, Tygavac Advanced Materials in England and Airtech Asia in China, continues to develop...

A new technology has been developed to manufacture composite tools with a hard metallic surface. This innovation combines the light weight, low thermal mass and low cost benefits of carbon fibre...

An innovative continuous process was developed for the production of curved preforms for CFRP profiles (frames and stringers). The process, similar to the pultrusion principle, can produce radii of...

The regional innovation agency, Innovalis Aquitaine, provides support to hundreds of innovative projects in industry or services companies. Its 32 employees are experts in various fields; they provide...

The method was developed to meet the challenge of heating an RTM moulding tool, where parts of the tooling are surrounded by a complex fibre preform and therefore thermally insulated. An inconsistent...

Single fibre fragmentation tests and degradation tests of carbon/poly (ε-caprolactone) composites were used to investigate the effect of two fabrication methods: in-situ polymerisation and film...

Technologycom S.r.l. and Cimteclab S.p.A. have developed an innovative epoxy prepreg using a cardanol derivative as curing agent. Two different cardanol-based epoxy systems were studied by DSC. The...

With rising production rates and the decreasing cost of high-performance composite parts, there is now a need for smarter tooling that has more autonomy. Compose proposes such moulding solutions for...

The new Click&Coat technology features a highly adaptable and flexible technology concept that combines different production procedures in the area of coating, printing and laminating. Applications in...

The process of producing carbon fibres belongs to a category where each process step has its specific features and each subsequent step depends critically on all previous steps. Three German...

The builders of cathedrals probably didn’t even know that the stones and mortar they were using were composite materials: two materials with different properties, stone being the basic element and the...

The processing of composite materials such as honeycomb requires certain special equipment. Geiss, a company with 50 years of experience in the processing of plastics materials, has already delivered...

JEC Composites Magazine

N°63 - march 2011

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