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JEC World 2023 preview: Roth Composite Machinery

Roth Composite Machinery is showing its new automation concept for reliable fiber changes as well as the company’s novel winding software.  

Grace Nehls
Managing Editor, CompositesWorld

JEC World 2023 preview: Roth Composite Machinery
JEC World 2023 preview: CompoTech
Epoxies

JEC World 2023 preview: CompoTech

Custom-designed carbon fiber/epoxy components and automated fiber winding machine offerings will be on display, emphasizing CompoTech’s focus on designing and supplying turnkey composites technologies.  
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JEC World 2023 preview: Conbility GmbH

Conbility launches a new towpreg winding machine dedicated to material, process and component development for companies and research centers.
#jec

Filament Winding

TNL Applied Composites Manufacturing course begins February 2023

Hybrid, seven-session class helps participants learn the tricks of different composites manufacturing technologies from wet layup to pultrusion.  

Carbon Fibers

Hexagon Purus opens new U.S. facility to manufacture composite hydrogen tanks

CW attends the opening of Westminster, Maryland, site and shares the company’s history, vision and leading role in H2 storage systems.
#wingoftomorrow #space #windblades

Filament wound utility poles offer design flexibility

Filament wound utility poles offer design flexibility

In Turkey, a utility pole manufacturer combines filament winding, automation, glass and carbon fiber composites to expand its product line.
#outofautoclave #insidemanufacturing #infrastructure

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Hexagon Purus Westminster: Experience, growth, new developments in hydrogen storage

Hexagon Purus scales production of Type 4 composite tanks, discusses growth, recyclability, sensors and carbon fiber supply and sustainability.
#hydrogen #sustainability

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor, CompositesWorld

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automated composite filament winding line for well tanks
Filament Winding

Automated filament winding system increases throughput, reduces manual labor for pressurized well tank production

For its new line of composite well water tanks, Amtrol worked with Roth Composite Machinery on an automated process for faster, more easily tracked production.
#automation #trends #workforcedevelopment

Carbon fiber enables new, low-CO2 Skyrora orbital launch vehicle
Aerospace

Carbon fiber enables new, low-CO2 Skyrora orbital launch vehicle

U.K. private space company is developing and testing orbital launch vehicle Skyrora XL to carry small satellites in Earth’s orbit using eco-friendly fuel, a unified systems design and composites.  
#wingoftomorrow #space

Azco Corp. presents servo-controlled unwind and rewind unit
Filament Winding

Azco Corp. presents servo-controlled unwind and rewind unit

The cantilever-designed unit is able to transfer between unwinding and rewinding via a change in the direction, torque and speed, controlled by an HMI touch screen. 

Cevotec integrates trapezoid-shaped patches into FPP Artist Studio software
Filament Winding

Cevotec integrates trapezoid-shaped patches into FPP Artist Studio software

Patch Artist module facilitates more even distribution of patches along tight curves during pressure vessel dome reinforcement, resulting in an optimized laminate thickness.  

Fraunhofer IPT develops thermoplastic composites in hydrogen storage, engine blades and more
Filament Winding

Fraunhofer IPT develops thermoplastic composites in hydrogen storage, engine blades and more

Active in laser-assisted tape winding and in-situ consolidation of thermoplastic composites since 1988, the IPT in Aachen, Germany continues to push new materials, applications and Composites 4.0 digital processing.
#sustainability #composites4-0 #aeroengines

Mikrosam celebrates commissioning of world's largest production line for CNG and hydrogen tanks
Filament Winding

Mikrosam celebrates commissioning of world's largest production line for CNG and hydrogen tanks

Turnkey project integrates four filament winding machines, two large ovens and multiple robotic lines and buffering stations to produce 60,000 tanks per year.
#windblades

Mold release for winding and wrapping
Filament Winding

Mold release for winding and wrapping

In this Digital Demo, Scott Waterman, Global Sales Director at AXEL Plastics (Monroe, Conn., U.S.), outlines the unique differences of filament winding and wrapping that affect the selection and usage of mold release. (Sponsored)

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TU Munich develops cuboidal conformable tanks using carbon fiber composites for increased hydrogen storage

Flat tank enabling standard platform for BEV and FCEV uses thermoplastic and thermoset composites, overwrapped skeleton design in pursuit of 25% more H2 storage.
#hydrogen #trends

Ginger Gardiner Senior Technical Editor, CompositesWorld
Cryomotive opens Hydrogen Storage Manufacturing Center 
Carbon Fibers

Cryomotive opens Hydrogen Storage Manufacturing Center 

Cryomotive is to develop, manufacture and assemble Cryogas composite hydrogen tanks for commercial vehicles, buses and ships at new Pfeffenhausen site, accelerating hydrogen refueling systems production for zero-emission commercial vehicles.  
#windblades #hydrogen #trends

Mikrosam, H2Storage collaborate on 300+-liter Type IV hydrogen tanks
Design/Simulation

Mikrosam, H2Storage collaborate on 300+-liter Type IV hydrogen tanks

Automated filament winding cell achieving wind speeds of 6 meters/second improves production performance, shortens curing cycle for serial production of 700-bar Type IV tanks.  
#hydrogen

Cygnet Texkimp builds high-precision slitter spooler rewinder for industry trials
Carbon Fibers

Cygnet Texkimp builds high-precision slitter spooler rewinder for industry trials

Demonstration machine can precisely slit and wind up to 48 tapes from continuous thermoset UD carbon fiber prepreg, with additional material compatibilities.  

Automotive

Voith H2 storage tanks made with in-house towpreg winding

Plug & Drive H2 storage system displayed at IAA Transportation 2022 uses 700-bar tanks for heavy-duty commercial and construction vehicles.
#electricvehicles

Energy Storage

Cryomotive to manufacture first CRYOGAS hydrogen storage vessels using Mikrosam winder

Carbon fiber-reinforced composite cryogenic compressed (CcH2) system offers up to 80 kilograms of H2 and 1,000 kilometers of range for heavy-duty truck and bus applications.
#hydrogen #windblades

Urban Air Mobility

Carbon fiber enables new, low-CO2 Skyrora orbital launch vehicle

U.K. private space company is developing and testing orbital launch vehicle Skyrora XL to carry small satellites in Earth’s orbit using eco-friendly fuel, a unified systems design and composites.  
#wingoftomorrow #space

composite outbuilding for utility infrastructure
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Composites end markets: Utility infrastructure (2023)

For utility poles and pipes to protective structures and cell towers, composites offer advantages like corrosion resistance, durability and light weight for ease of transport and installation.
#composites-market-outlook #feature #infrastructure

Hannah Mason Technical Editor, CompositesWorld

NEW PRODUCTS: FILAMENT WINDING

Cygnet Texkimp develops high-tension carbon fiber overwrapping solution
Automotive

Cygnet Texkimp develops high-tension carbon fiber overwrapping solution

Fiber winding technology achieves greater power at higher rotating speeds via high-tension composite wrapping, resulting in enhanced fiber-volume ratio, dimensional stability and lighter parts.  
#wingoftomorrow #space

CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: Composite Automation
RTM

CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: Composite Automation

Composite Automation is joined by Isojet Equipements and PCM/Lucas Industries, bringing solutions for every step of the composites manufacturing process to one booth.
#composites4-0 #automation #camx

CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: Mikrosam
CAMX Expo

CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: Mikrosam

Mikrosam presents automated, high-performance composites manufacturing equipment for filament winding, AFP/ATL, prepregs and towpregs, pressure vessels, slitting and rewinding.
#camx

CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: McClean Anderson
CAMX Expo

CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: McClean Anderson

Ocelot, backed by more than 60 years of machine control systems, is McClean Anderson’s latest filament winding machine featuring the latest hardware and software technologies.
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CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: Engineering Technology Corp.
ATL/AFP

CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: Engineering Technology Corp.

ETC exhibits turnkey composites equipment like laboratory-scale and multi-spindle automated winders, as well as a large-scale tape wrapping machine at its joint booth with Zoltek.  
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CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: Heraeus Noblelight
Filament Winding

CAMX 2022 exhibit preview: Heraeus Noblelight

Humm3 technology is a high power, safe, highly controllable broadband heat source for automated fiber placement, automated tape laying, filament winding and other composites applications.
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