Category: Industry Digest

At its newly-opened Advanced Composite Structures Laboratory (ACSL) in Seattle, Lamborghini is continuing development of composite materials through a collaboration with Boeing to mass produce its potentially game-changing Forged...

During the Society of Automotive Engineers’ (SAE) Supermileage® competition, co-produced with power management company Eaton, a team of students from Université Laval in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, placed first...

During the Grand Opening of a new Local Motors facility in National Harbor, Md., the company unveiled Olli – a self-driving, 3-D printed electric car made with CFRP. According...

Adwen, a joint venture between wind turbine OEMs AREVA and Gamesa, partnered with long-time blade manufacturer LM Wind Power (Kolding, Denmark) to produce the longest blade in the world...

NASA recently unveiled details of its first experimental aircraft in 10 years, the X-57 Maxwell. According to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden, the X-57 will fly next year to kick...

The highly-publicized world trip by the Solar Impulse 2 – the solar-powered, single-seater plane made with carbon fiber composites – recently received a majority of the headlines last week...

Last week, Carbon Conversions’ process of recycling carbon fiber from bicycles for Formula 1 race cars was featured on the Science Channel’s new series “Made by Destruction.” The premise...

By 2017, Mercedes-Benz will start selling its GLC F-Cell – the world’s first-ever plug-in hybrid fuel cell car. For the GLC F Cell, Mercedes-Benz worked with Daimler to devise...

Russia-based United Aircraft Corporation held an international presentation of its highly-anticipated new aircraft – the Irkut MC-21 – a $3.5 billion jet that is expected to rival the Airbus 320...