In an era of outsourcing, one university says it’s seeing a return of some manufacturers who had previously moved manufacturing plants overseas because they want to take advantage of higher quality processes and expertise than what they can find overseas. This is especially the case in the use of high-level information technology and robotics...
Laura Gray is the director at Springboro, Ohio-based Renegade Materials Corporation, a manufacturer of prepregs, adhesives, resins and fibers, founded in 2008. Through funding from the Ohio Third Frontier Wright Program, Renegade has partnered with the University of Dayton Research Institute (URDI) for composite material R&D within a brand new state-of-the-art facility.
Despite business areas being crippled by the effects of a down-trodden economy, the aerospace industry has seen a burst in technologies and employment growth. In particular, the aerospace manufacturing hub in the state of Ohio has had an upswing of activity due to the stimulus of projects that are geared towards creating a technological...
Edoardo Depase is the engineered materials applications research and engineering manager for Cytec Engineered Materials (CEM), a global provider of technologically advanced materials for designers and engineers in commercial aerospace, civil and military rotorcraft, business and regional jets and automotive. CEM's portfolio includes high-performance, pre-impregnated composites and adhesives, ablatives, carbon-carbon materials for high-temperature applications,...
Pick up a drill, and instinctively, as the bit grinds through a board, wall plaster or aluminum, the urge to saw the bit back and forth to neaten the hole seems the right thing to do.
Dominick Consalvi is general partner in Carbon by Design, located in Oceanside, Calif. Coming out of a strong fabrication background with an appetite for solving complex manufacturing challenges, he helped found Carbon by Design on a small amount of seed money. He has helped grow the company from its automotive aftermarket origins to a...
When Manassas, Va.-based Aurora Flight Services started designing the 150-foot wing for Boeing’s Phantom Eye High Altitude Long Endurance (HALE) aircraft demonstrator, winning awards for innovation was not among its priorities, which were to design, manufacture and test a low-weight, high-stiffness structure, arguably the largest that was ever created using out-of-autoclave (OOA) composite materials...
Commercial aircraft experience lightening strikes on average every 10,000 hours, according to a presentation developed by Lou Dorworth, chief technical instructor for Abaris Training Resources. It’s no wonder, then, that repairing composites ranging from aircraft to wind turbine blades is a priority. Dr. Scott Beckwith led the seminar “Training the Next Generation of Composites...
Involved in the composites industry for over 40 years, Bob Lacovara got his first exposure to composites when he began building surf boards at the age of 13. After graduating from college he began working for New Jersey-based Viking Yacht and later a transportation and aerospace components company. He has been on the board...
Meet Puffin, a new stealthy, hover-capable concept vehicle from NASA. The Puffin is a vertical take-off and landing tail sitter aircraft concept made of carbon fiber that would be powered by a redundant set of electric motors.
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