Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, announces the shipment of a two-zone indirect gas-fired heavy duty walk-in oven to a global manufacturer in the composites industry.
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Harper International, Buffalo, N.Y., has developed an on-line furnace cleaning system that is located in the entrance section, which enables cleaning while the furnace is hot.
Continue readingWisconsin Oven, East Troy, reports that 2018 was another strong year of growth, as the company shipped 224 pieces of equipment to customers in industries such as composites, aerospace, technology, and automotive.
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CVD Equipment Corp., Ronkonkoma, N.Y., a provider of chemical vapor deposition systems and materials, announces that it has completed the purchase of the company’s planned additional facility in Central Islip, New York.
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Spirit AeroSystems, Wichita, Kan., has developed a resin transfer molding (RTM) technology that supports the high-volume production of composite aircraft spoilers and other monolithic components and promises to deliver improved quality and significant cost savings.
Continue readingNIST, Gaithersburg, Md., announces that a team of researchers including NIST scientists has found a way to improve the process of simulating the onset of failure in materials for airplane wings.
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Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy, Wis., has shipped three electrically heated, heavy-duty walk-in ovens with temperature uniformity of ±5°F for composite curing.
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GE Aviation, Evendale, Ohio, announces that its investments in the United States have reached $4.3 billion in expanding operations during 2011-2016, thanks to record production on a new generation of jet engines, engine components, and aircraft systems.
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Researchers at Georgia Tech are working with Delta Air Lines Inc., both in Atlanta, on procedures for repairing composite parts used in aircraft.
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A new technology developed by Pennsylvania State University researchers, called cold sintering process (CSP), has opened a window on the ability to combine incompatible materials, such as ceramics and plastics, into new, useful compound materials, and to lower the energy cost of many types of manufacturing.
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Sandy silicon dioxide nanoparticles coated with a high dielectric constant polymer could inexpensively provide improved cooling for increasingly power-hungry electronic devices.
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Qinetiq, England, introduces an impact-resistant composite material in which highly energy-absorbent shape-memory titanium alloy wires are woven into a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer.
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Employees at the Boeing Co. recently celebrated the grand opening of the new 777X Composite Wing Center (CWC) in Everett, Wash.
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Magna International Inc., Canada, won a 2016 JEC Americas Innovation Award in the automotive category for the molding process used in making carbon-fiber hoods for Cadillac.
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Researchers at North Carolina State University, Raleigh, have found that novel light-weight composite metal foams (CMFs) are significantly more effective at insulating against high heat than the conventional base metals and alloys that they’re made of, such as steel.
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Spiders sprayed with water containing carbon nanotubes and graphene flakes have produced the toughest fibers ever measured, says an Italian research team.
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The National Football League (NFL), Under Armour, General Electric , and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), recently announced the five winners of Head Health Challenge III, an open innovation competition to support the discovery, design, and development of advanced materials that better absorb or dissipate impact.
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Bell Helicopter, Fort Worth, Texas, completed the Bell V-280 tiltrotor fuselage last year ahead of schedule and within budget.
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The U.S. Air Force has selected Northrop Grumman Corp., Falls Church, Va., the company that developed the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber, to deliver the new Long-Range Strike Bomber, which is also to be stealthy.
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World’s first algae-based, sustainable surfboard produced by UC San Diego biology and chemistry students
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New family of luminescent materials could find broad uses in chemical and biological detectors
Continue readingSymposium proposals for MS&T16 are being accepted through May 31, 2015.
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Wisconsin Oven Corp., East Troy., Wis., has shipped a composite curing batch oven to the McNair Center for Aerospace Innovation and Research at the University of South Carolina.
Continue readingRolls-Royce chose Bristol as the location for a center of advanced fan system composite technology development, creating a hub of composite knowledge in the UK.
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Granta Design, UK, announced a new software solution and service that supports a rigorous, auditable composite qualification process, particularly where data traceability is important for regulatory and other purposes.
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Researchers in Spain developed biocompatible materials to be used as support for bone regeneration from the food industry waste, mainly bagasse (residue) from beer brewing.
Continue readingChem-Trend is helping the aerospace industry remove mass, lower fuel consumption, and respect the environment with a release agent targeted for use with composite materials.
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It’s a balloon that lifts a wind turbine.
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TenCate Advanced Composites North America, Fairfield, Ca., developed a heat resistant composite for the heat shield and backshell structure of the Lockheed Martin Orion multi-purpose crew vehicle.
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For much the same reason LCD televisions offer eye-popping performance, a thermomagnetic processing method developed at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory can advance the performance of polymers.
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