For a camera enclosure part, pre-consolidated carbon fiber is rolled out onto the Eastman S125 cutting table. Precision cutting enables Rapid Composites’ ultra-fast composite molding process. Speed, ...

Making fan blades for airplanes used to be pretty straightforward, but now it’s a whole different ballgame. We’re talking ...

Victrex (West Conshohocken, PA) has developed a new polyaryletherketone (PAEK)-based polymer and an innovative hybrid molding technology that enable overmolding of a PAEK-based composite with ...

RocTool's LIT molding system includes a metallic female mold combined with a male silicone half. Resin is provided via prepregging or in powder or film form. Pressure of up to 30 bar/420 psi is ...

Surface Generation, a company in Rutland, the United Kingdom, that provides carbon fiber processing technologies, has unveiled a compression molding technology for high-volume automotive and consumer ...

Lightweight structural components for automotive can now be made in high volume manufacturing using carbon fiber reinforced SMC. Using a unique Daron® resin from AOC, these parts feature superior ...

The growing calls for lower weight carbon fiber composites in automotive applications is propelling the carbon fiber industry towards the development of high quality inexpensive carbon fiber. Most ...

“The CarbonPro pickup box is the industry’s first use of carbon fiber for a pickup truck box. It is made from Teijin’s Sereebo carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) material. The CarbonPro ...

Vacuum pumps are powerful tools because the atmospheric pressure on our planet’s surface is strong. That pressure is enough to crush evacuated vessels with impressive implosive force. At less extreme ...