3TEX supplies industries such as Wind Energy, Coal Fired Energy Production, Marine, and National Defense with cutting edge 3WEAVE and 3BRAID materials to make their products Lighter, Faster, and Stronger.
Integration of next-gen cutting and stacking systems into production lines brings new level of efficiency, quality control.
Toray Advanced Composites, with new product innovation, is enabling the high performance engineering industries of the future to achieve more efficient, greener designs. (Sponsored)
A stalwart in Italy’s “Motor Valley” opens its doors for a discussion and exploration of the company’s history in composites manufacturing for high-performance cars and other applications.
The German Aerospace Center (DLR) developed a flexible automation platform for this work cell to build families of CFRP aerostructures that use the same process — dry noncrimp fabric, pick-and-place layup and resin infusion — to fabricate products like rear pressure bulkheads and fuselage panels. Collaborative robots are not taught, but instead define their own collision-free paths for picking and placing cut plies into a tool based on CAD and process definition inputs and AI algorithms. Such AI-driven automation is one basis for future smart Composites 4.0 factories.
Understand the fundamentals of vacuum infusion processing (VIP), including pressure, permeability and race tracking, to prevent issues and produce consistent results.
The FlatJet Welder, designed for thermoplastic components of all sizes, blasts a thin, directed jet of uniform, high-temperature air/gas for a fast, full-surface melt.
Called the “Spark” method and based on a method for producing CFRP prosthetics, this single-mold, adhesive-free process is said to show potential for a variety of applications.
Commercial production of recycled carbon fiber currently outpaces applications for it, but materials characterization and new technology demonstrations promise to close the gap.