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.
C. A. Litzler Co. Inc. offers an entry-level, solution-based vertical prepreg treater and hot melt horizontal coating line for the composites industry.
The laptop-sized WALKCAR automatic people mover is constructed from Teijin thermoplastic carbon fiber composite materials.
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.
HexPEKK EM is a high-performance material for additive manufacturing that meets electromagnetic shielding, radiation absorption requirements.
Increasing part production by decreasing injection times, Fast Flow LRTM is said to be capable of injecting a 50 square foot part in under four minutes using only one injection port.
Smart Tooling reviews the function and application of its shape memory polymer tooling bladder and caul solutions for the efficient and cost-effective manufacture of trapped and complex geometry composite parts and structures.
The glass-filled polypropylene (PP), optimized for fused granulated fabrication (FGF) is suitable for additive manufacturing of structural and demanding applications.
Fibreworks Composites and sister company Composite Factory highlight their capabilities for building complex composite structures.