Composites

Purdue University innovators hope new technology provides a more business-friendly option to utilize sustainable cellulose nanomaterials for use in vehicles, food packaging and other manufactured goods.

Sturdy and stylish suitcase from Chinese brand Tuplus has front and back shells molded from polycarbonate-carbon fiber composite.

The cross-sectional area of the CFRP cables is only one-quarter compared of the steel solution, and their lightweight enables manual installation without the need for a crane.

The Hyundai Creta’s trunk floor combines a sandwich panel of PP honeycomb and GMT composite skin.

Researchers from Penn State, the University of Virginia and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in collaboration with industry partners Solvay and Oshkosh, want to reduce carbon-fiber production costs to $5 per pound by making changes to the complex...

A technology that automates and accelerates the production of custom composite blanks developed by Engel and partner company Fill has been named one of the winners of the 2020 JEC Innovation Awards.

Symbio fiber from South Africa’s Sappi has been selected for the European Biobcompo project, which aims to reduce vehicle CO2 emissions by 8% through the replacement of conventional mineral fillers with bio-based fibers.

The Japanese materials supplier intends to expand conceptual, designing, prototype and evaluation capabilities through the investment.