JEC Composites Magazine editorial team produces three times a year special issues on top of the regular issues of the magazine.
- Every first quarter: the JEC Composites Observer
Written in collaboration with Estin & Co, it is the annual barometer of the composites industry, which provides a forecast growth up to the five coming years. This publication seeks to give an ample perspective and outlook of the industry for the next five years using graphs, key figures, market dynamics, and insights to illustrate the state of composites globally.
- Every spring: the JEC Composites Innovation Report
From raw materials to disruptive manufacturing processes, the Innovation Report showcases the most striking advances of the year unveiled at JEC World, offering a comprehensive panorama of a fast-evolving global industry.
- Every autumn: the JEC Composites Sustainability Report
Compiling highlights about the part composite materials are playing in creating the sustainable European economy of the future. The purpose of this annual work, rather than results, which quickly become obsolete, is to give examples of approaches contributing to and moving towards sustainability.
In the past, JEC published special issues about end users industries such as smarter cities, mobility, sports, health, and leisure, all these issues being available to all JEC Composites Magazine subscribers.
HISTORY OF COMPOSITES: THE LAST 50 YEARS
HISTORY OF COMPOSITES: THE LAST 50 YEARS
FIFTY YEARS AGO, THE COMPOSITES TECHNOLOGY WAS READY TO “CONQUER THE WORLD”, BECAUSE MOST OF THE BASICS HAD BEEN DEVELOPED. HOWEVER, A LOT STILL HAD TO BE DONE… In the early seventies, most fibrous...
l THERMOSETS
1970s Since both epoxies and unsaturated polyesters (UP) had been invented in the 1930s, these thermoset matrices have become the industry standard by the 1970s. Gradual improvements in mechanical...
PROCESSES 1970s
The state of the art of thermoset composite processing in the 1970s has two faces. On one hand, hand lay-up and spray-up techniques are mainly manual, and are being used for low cost, often small...
APPLICATIONS
In the previous publication73, innovations in applications have already been presented, starting from the very early times (1930s to 1940s), but also including some innovations since the 1970s, the...
50 YEARS FROM NOW: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
50 YEARS FROM NOW: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
An excellent and quantitative assessment of the dynamics of the future innovations in and use of composite materials can be found in the JEC Observer 2023: “Overview of the global composites market...
ON PROCESSING
Automation, robotisation, mass production: the real breakthrough of “fast” composites has to happen NOW! Both materials and process innovations have prepared the path towards the mass production of...
ON APPLICATIONS
Aerospace Now that the Covid-19 crisis seems to be under control, and even with the war in Ukraine lingering, it is expected that the air travel will be back on the 2019 level by the end of 2023161,...
ON CIRCULAR ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
Materials and processes with reduced environmental impact Biobased materials are an obvious choice for the future. The trend of using biobased fibres should be further strengthened by the development...
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
To prepare the History of Composites Volume 2 JEC commissioned Ignaas Verpoest, Emeritus Professor at the Composite Materials Group of the Department of Materials Engineering, Katholieke Universiteit...
A GLOBAL OVERVIEW OF THE COMPOSITES INDUSTRY
About JEC JEC Group is a non-profit organization, founded in 1963, entirely dedicated to promoting composite materials and fostering their applications globally. Publisher of the JEC Composites...
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