Imagine if a company could reduce its manufacturing cycle time by 80 percent while upgrading the products it was building, decrease the weight of those products by as much as 50 percent compared to ...

When aerospace professionals talk about the potential of thermoplastics in commercial aircraft, the focus often turns to large primary structures and the feasibility of molding them from carbon ...

Italy-based Fitt SpA has opened its first U.S. manufacturing site and headquarters in Anderson, Ind., part of a $30 million investment to expand its presence in the North American market.

Thermoplastic composites specialist Daher-Socata compression molds these fuselage clips in its Nantes, France, plant for the Airbus A350 XWB using TenCate Advanced Composites' carbon fiber/PPS ...

Aircraft manufacturers have been benefiting from thermoplastic composites in the form of a tough, durable structural material for more than 15 years and aerospace design allowable databases are ...

This is the first NCAMP qualification of a carbon fabric reinforced thermoplastic composite material. It is also the first NCAMP qualification of pre-consolidated laminates, which can be used for ...

Berlin-based climate tech startup Made of Air has closed a €5 million (~$5.8 million) seed funding round, led by Norwegian sustainability-focused family fund, TD Veen. Also participating are Patrick ...

Integrated Thermoplastics Ltd has informed BSE that a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company will be held on March 21, 2014, to consider and approve the following business :1. Proposal to ...

Thermoplastics soften on heating and can be molded into thousands of different shapes using methods such as injection molding or extrusion. Providing decomposition does not occur, the cycle of heating ...

Researchers took a middling monomer and, by using a special catalyst, they created a tougher polymer that can form long chains. The polymer can then be easily depolymerized back to the monomer state ...

Thermosetting plastics set hard when heated and cannot be remelted. They are durable, heat-resistant, and maintain their shape at high temperatures. Once set, they are rigid and strong. Thermoplastics ...