Angel Trains, one of Britain’s leading train leasing companies, has collaborated with engineering consultancy ESG Rail, and 3D printing technology provider Stratasys, to produce four fully approved interior components using additive manufacturing.
The Fabheli collaborative project, funded by the French Defence Procurement Agency, aims to develop and produce, on an industrial scale, a propeller with a reduced environmental footprint and lower energy consumption.
Post-life carbon fiber is viewed as such a valuable commodity nowadays that companies are reportedly going around hunting for 30-year-old aircraft parts.
The polypropylene supplier commits to add 80,000 tonnes/year in Kallo, Belgium, by mid-2020, while also studying the feasibility of a new 250,000–300,000-plant to be built by mid-2022.
To strengthen and add value to its range of stabilizers for polyols and polyurethane, Korea’s Songwon has developed and launched a new antioxidant, Songnox 5057.
Machine supplier Engel hosted a technical forum coinciding with FUMOTec, the international trade fair for automotive engineering and future mobility, to discuss where the Chinese automotive market is heading and what further challenges e-mobility presents.
