N°73 - june 2012 - 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 Asia-Pacific composites sector is diversified. Large developed markets like Japan, Taiwan and Korea have a fully integrated value chain, i.e. significant players at each step of the value chain...

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The year 2012 got off to a strong start for Owens Corning, which introduced a major, market-opening innovation and obtained an important specification approval. Last March at the JEC Europe Paris,...

The industrial sectors that use non-renewable fibres have undertaken an eco-design initiative. Having the structure to meet this new industrial need, the CELC Technical Section collaborated with its...

The French company TCI, together with its partner SNCF, won a JEC Innovation Award at the JEC Europe 2012 in March 2012 for a lightweight, easy-to-use noise reduction system. The noise reduction...

Honeywell’s T-Hawk™ Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) helped emergency workers at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility get up-close video and photos inside the plant as they worked to limit further...

LG Hausys, together with its partners Hyundai Motor and Shinhan Mold, won a JEC Innovation Award in the Special Prize Category at the JEC Show Europe 2012 in Paris last March. The three Korean...

Hexagon Composites ASA has appointed Ragnar Holthe as director of CNG containers for passenger cars in the business unit for High-pressure containers. Ragnar Holthe took up the new position on 2 May...

While composite materials consumption is constantly growing, sandwich structures are increasingly used due to the weight reduction trend observed in many sectors. Here are few recent developments in...

Gurit and Sino Composite recently signed a long-term agreement to immediately initiate supplies of balsa core materials for the Chinese market. Established in 1992, Sino Composite Co. Ltd., Beijing,...

3 A Composites Core Materials recently launched the new SealX technologies, dramatically reducing the resin uptake of the infused core materials. While this reduction is above 50% for the Airex® T90...

A versatile, low-density film helps aircraft interior makers save time in production, improve finish and meet increasingly stringent FST regulations. 3M has launched the first adhesive film for...

Basotect ® is going to be used in Bonn’s trams to provide effective sound absorption and thermal insulation. In a large-scale project, the municipal works of the city in Western Germany will be...

TRB Lightweight Structures recently completed a strategic investment programme, adding capacity and expanding its range of services to better serve its customers in the rail, defence, motorsport and...

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The UVF (universal vacuum fixtures) system developed by Belotti SpA is an automatic vacuum fixing system designed to rigidly clamp shaped metal and/or composite parts for several operations (cutting,...

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Unifiber is established at Selangor, about an hour’s drive north of Kuala Lumpur. The Malaysian company has quietly built its reputation in the building sector, both locally and abroad. Established in...

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Due to a noticeable lack of fatigue data, the prospective use of plant-fibre composites (PFCs) in fatigue-critical components (like rotor blades) is limited as fatigue life prediction is not possible....

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Reichhold and Umicore jointly introduce an innovative and sustainable cobalt solution for curing unsaturated polyester resins (UPR). Umicore’s ECOS ND15 offers a breakthrough in terms of hazardous...

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Pultrusion is a continuous, automated fabrication process for manufacturing in high volume constant cross section profiles and solid shaped parts. Pultruded FRP structural profiles with exceptional...

Continuing its commitment to commercializing innovative composite technologies, Romeo RIM Inc. has installed the largest long fibre injection (LFI) press in the world, with the capability to produce...

The oil & gas exploration and production sector has been expanding rapidly in India and should attract enormous capital investment in future. As a more eco-friendly and cost-effective mode of...

JEC Composites Magazine

N°73 - june 2012

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June 2012: Let us celebrate Asia Pacific, the land of opportunities!