N°64 - april 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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Red Composites is based in the UK (Isle of Wight) and also in mainland China (Shandong). With extensive experience in prepreg manufacturing and composite material development, the company provides...

The construction sector, and in particular finishing and fittings, accounts for a significant share of the composites market in Japan. Over time, certain players have risen to the top, such as...

Hua Dong Fibreglass is proof that you do not have to be a multinational to export and capture distant markets. Product offerings, know-how and quality are by far the best publicity! Located in...

3B - the fibreglass company (Belgium), together with its Italian partners P.C.R. Srl and architects King Roselli Architetti (Italy), have won the prestigious JEC Innovation Award 2011 in the...

The recent holder of the Jules Verne trophy, Franck Cammas and his partner Groupama, have signed on with the Multiplast shipyard to build a 21-m monohull for the next team event, the 2011-2012 Volvo...

For the second time, composite companies operating in India were invited to take part in a competition aiming to promote innovation. Stemming from a partnership between the ICERP-FRP Institute team...

Michelman strengthens its new global fibers & composites business unit Mr. Wenqing (Allen) Zhu has been hired to fill the position of Business Development Manager, Asia Pacific. Mr. Zhu will be based...

The ski has long been a “tool of transport” for man, based on a simple wooden structure with a variety of types and shapes. Today, it is a highly sophisticated structure designed for competitive sport...

The wind industry has aroused a great deal of interest on account of its strong growth worldwide. Not a day goes by without a new project being announced. Yet competition is fierce and business is not...

AGY recently introduced S-1 HM™ high-performance rovings for use in wind turbine blade applications. S-1 HM fibres were designed to offer superior value performance in the highly competitive wind...

Hexcel recently initiated a design study with Aerodyn Energiesysteme GmbH to evaluate the weight-saving implications of producing wind blade spar caps from prepreg rather than the resin infusion...

A new version of PAM-RTM was developed to meet a growing need in the wind energy and aeronautical industries that need to manufacture higher-quality parts in less time while the complexity and size of...

As they are getting increasingly longer, wind turbine blades need to be stiffer and lighter to avoid cracks from fatigue loading and to help lower foundation construction costs. Current development...

Better quality, reduced costs, higher accuracy, time-saving and simplicity – what sounds like a fantasy for production managers is now possible by laser specialist LAP. LAP is the first provider of...

GAMESA Innovation & Technology and M. Torres are the winners of the JEC innovation Awards 2011 in the Wind Energy category. They have teamed up to develop fully-automated equipment for the manufacture...

Gurit was among this year’s finalists in the Wind Energy Category of the JEC Innovation Awards for its Renuvo™ GL-certified blade repair system. The JEC Innovation Awards reward the best composite...

Composite materials are more and more commonly used in a growing number and variety of applications. Material health testing, measurement and control needs are also increasing significantly,...

The drive to reduce composite part production cycle times has led to a growing interest in out-of-autoclave processing, which offers the opportunity to maintain part quality while significantly...

Automated Dynamics successfully built and installed a new robotic fibre placement machine for Mitsubishi Rayon Co. (MRC) and the University of Tokyo in Japan. The machine will support research and...

The Trans-IND project focuses on a new industrialized construction process for transport infrastructures based on polymer composite components. The project is co-funded by the European Commission...

Since 1984, Forest-Liné has been developing a broad range of automatic tape-laying and fibre-placement systems. These technologies are intended mainly for the aerospace sector, which uses carbon-...

Composites are now being used in critical components. Non-Destructive Testing (N.D.T.) methods have therefore been adapted in order to accommodate the specific features of these materials. JEC joined...

In an effort to make composite manufacturing more economical, Leon Fainstein P.Eng., an instructor of the Mechanical Engineering Technology department (MET) at Red River College, and MET student Serge...

JEC Composites Magazine

N°64 - april 2011

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