The system is capable of producing four thermoplastic composite laminates every 60 seconds, totaling up to 1.5 million parts annually.

Chinese 3D additive manufacturing (AM) player Farsoon Technologies and Airbus (Beijing) Engineering Centre Co., LTD (ABEC) have signed a collaboration contract that establishes a joint research and development program for polymer AM in civil aviation. This marks Airbus’ first collaboration with a...

The company will also demonstrate the versatility of Udmax tape, a unidirectional, fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite used in automated and manual laminating.

Researchers at the University of Houston have used a physics-based stress theory to create a new ice-repelling polymer that performs better than previous designs.