Composites making news last week: Innovative Composites is raising money through equity financing to increase its manufacturing capabilities. Straight Flight Inc. earned a Class I Composite Airframe rating from the FAA, allowing it to repair carbon fiber, fiberglass and Kevlar components.
Garry Hojan has worked at Aerocet, a manufacturer of floats for airplanes, for nearly eight years, starting in production and working his way through different departments to become the Operations Manager. Previously, he was vice president for an engineering firm with more than 13,000 employees and 243 offices worldwide. Recently, the company hosted its...
BMC and thermoset part supplier Mar-Bal has initiated a sales and export strategy to China. Valley Forge Composites Technologies entered a distribution partnership with Intellidome ALSS to promote each other’s counter-terrorism and homeland security products. Vector Composites signed an agreement to promote Quickstep Composites’ out-of-autoclave process.
Top composites news this week included the following: Armored Chariots LLC, a joint venture between TPI and Plasan, will produce lightweight crew compartments for military vehicles. SAMPE and SME reported record attendance at their co-located conferences. Marine Products Corp. a manufacturer of fiberglass boats, reported third-quarter profits.
Dan Brady joined Aurora Flight Sciences as Vice President of Aerostructures in June 2007 from Vought Aircraft Industries where he was Director of Global Supply Chain Management and previously Director of Boeing and Bell Military Programs. At Aurora he is accountable for overall program development and program execution for component production of prime contractors....
Custom Fiberglass Moldings will receive $169,000 in economic development tax credits from Wisconsin to expand its manufacturing facility. An FRP utility pole and crossarm, manufactured by Creative Pultrusions, were installed at Shawnee State Park. PPG ended the third quarter with record earnings.
After receiving a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Arizona State University and pursuing an MBA in marketing, Howard Lindsay spent more than 10 years creating effective aerospace and military composite-based products and technologies. Lindsay founded ViaTech to apply aerospace composite technology to consumer products. After three years, he became VP of Engineering at True...
Ranger Boats’ new owners will invest $13 million to retool and expand, which will create more than 115 new jobs. Met-Pro won a $3.7 million contract to supply fiberglass centrifugal pumps to a marine life park in Southeast Asia. Maine Marine Composites is using a $1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy...
LCOA Composites developed a lightweight composite police shield, which the company says can stop a bullet at 15 feet. Automated Dynamics introduced a carbon-fiber hydraulic pump at the Offshore Technology Conference. The DOT gave the Center for Transportation and Materials Engineering at Youngstown State University a $463,400 grant to investigate light-weight materials for...
Hexagon Composites signed a new contract with Daimler AG for composite fuel tanks, which will be installed in the next generation of Mercedes-Benz B-class sedans. The Department of Defense granted Iowa nearly $87 million in funds, some going to the growth of composites. Continental Structural Plastics is in the market for a new composite...
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