Since late 2022, the airframe of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) MQ-9B Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) has been in full-scale fatigue (FSF) testing protocols at Wichita State University’s National […]
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Transporting large structures into space is both challenging and expensive. With those challenges in mind, a research team at The Grainger College of Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, supported by […]
ACMA’s Composites Growth Initiative Staff led a group of ACMA member companies from the Pultrusion Industry Council on November 5th to give a mini–Composites Technology Day with educational presentations to […]
Composites was acknowledged with the USACE 2025 Innovation of the Year Award in recognition of exceptional contributions in the discovery, development, and successful implementation of innovative technologies that advance the […]
Hybrid Air Vehicles is the developer of the Airlander 10, a production aircraft capable of seating 100 passengers, carrying a freight payload of ten metric tonnes, or a combination of […]
McLaren Automotive’s in-house innovation team developed the ART (Automated Rapid Tape) technology to solve one of the key challenges in composites manufacturing — producing complex, high-quality components sustainably and at […]
Sicomin developed and introduced SR GreenPoxy 550 – a sustainable alternative to its line of resins. The new bio-based epoxy system was designed for bonding and lamination of wood composites […]
August and September 2025 welcomed 25 new Certified Composites Technicians to the industry. CCTs complete an online self-study program that teaches them the fundamentals of composites, plus all the knowledge […]
Arianespace launched EUMETSAT’s Metop-SGA1 (Metop – Second Generation, 1), the first of a series of six polar-orbiting weather satellites, into orbit. EUMETSAT is the European operational satellite agency for monitoring […]
The process of manufacturing composites by winding fiber filaments over a rotating mandrel dates back to the 1940s, and after decades of upgrades and improvement the technique is still in […]