Trexel has developed a new screw design that, when used in conjunction with Trexel’s MuCell microcellular foam process, will minimize damage to long-glass-fiber (12 mm or longer)-filled materials. The ...

High strength, dimensional stability and fit accuracy coupled with low weight are the hallmarks of large-format composite components produced using the Long Fiber Injection (LFI) process from ...

It’s long been established that retained fiber length has a direct impact on mechanical properties of composites. Shown above, flexural modulus is plotted against notched Charpy impact strength for a ...

No less an authority than ex-General Electric chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt says he believes that Arris Composites’ high-speed, low-cost carbon fiber could push metals out of cars. The Berkeley, Calif.

An MCAM customer wanted to replace metal injection molded (MIM) magnesium with a composite on a performance mountain bike’s suspension elements with the goals of reducing mass and avoiding processing ...

Fiber Dynamics, Inc. in Wichita, Kansas, is a specialist in the field of highly sophisticated composites solutions. With the investment in a GX 1100-4300 DCIM from KraussMaffei, the company is moving ...

The program included a range of technologies focusing on innovative materials and manufacturing processes, including CF3D® to print the spars, long fiber injection molding for ribs, additively ...

Sabic Innovative Plastics (Pittsfield, MA) will expand its capacity and offerings for long glass fiber-filled polypropylene (LGFPP) resins through the acquisition of RheTech Inc.’s (Whitmore Lake, MI) ...

ROMEO, Michigan — Forty minutes north of Detroit, up beyond Sterling Heights and Auburn Hills and so many other outer bedroom suburbs, up in the part of the metropolis that can still be called country ...

Most of the plastic products we use are made through injection molding, a process in which molten plastic is injected into a ...