Blue Origin, the company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has completed the first carbon composite nose cone for its new orbital rocket, the New Glenn. With a diameter of 7 metres the company claim that ...

BÜFA Composite Systems, confirms it has acquired Manningtree-based AOC (UK) Ltd, a UK supplier of composite products. Former owners AOC Aliancys will remain the supplier of the resins portfolio. In ...

Camshafts ensure that the charge-cycle valves in internal combustion engines are opened and closed reliably and precisely. These valves are located in the camshaft module, the standard material for ...

This futuristic instrument does away with most of the wood traditionally used when making grand pianos like the Steinway, opting instead for advanced carbon fibre composites, with almost every single ...

Meggitt has agreed to acquire the advanced composites businesses of Cobham plc for US$200 million Cobham develops and produces engineered aerospace composite engine components , radomes and complex ...

GE Marine has announced it’s delivered its first new lightweight LM2500 composite gas turbine module to Austal USA for the future USS Santa Barbara (LCS 32). This new module, which was fully certified ...

Thanks to $1.1 million in funding from the Department of Energy’s Small Business Technology Transfer program and Wind Energy Technologies Office, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, is developing ...

Carbon fibre is well-known for being one of the worlds lightest and strongest materials. In this video by Hydraulic Press, a Finish based YouTube channel intent on squashing anything and everything ...

The Japanese automaker says it has created a new way to speed up the development of car parts made from carbon fibre reinforced plastics (CFRP) by up to 80%, making it possible to mass-produce strong, ...

Two US Department of Energy (DOE) National Laboratories, the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), are working with the University of Kentucky and the ...

Using the very latest technologies in lightweight materials, powertrains, chassis, operating systems and intelligent connectivity underline its mission to bring together driving pleasure and ...

Jaguar Land Rover is preparing for future electric vehicles with advanced lightweight composite research that they say will deliver increased range and provide greater performance. The Tucana project ...