ComfortLine Inc. began as a vinyl extruder and manufacturer of windows and doors. The company first saw the benefits of fiberglass in the early 1990s and has since adopted the pultrusion process and become a manufacturer exclusively of fiberglass windows and doors. Bob Rambo, the company's president, discusses the state of the fiberglass window...
Paolo Feraboli is assistant professor of aircraft materials and structures at the University of Washington (UW) and the driving force behind a new UW laboratory funded by Italian automaker Lamborghini. A former Lamborghini employee himself, Feraboli discusses why the famous automotive company is moving forward with composites as its key technology for the future.
Robert Michelson is a principal research engineer at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, a retired adjunct associate professor at the School of Aerospace Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and president of Millennial Vision LLC. He has worked with various academia and institutions such as Cambridge University and NASA on aerospace projects.
Named the “Best CEO of Public Companies” by Forbes China, Zhang Yuqiang strives to live up to his title. Under his direction, Jushi Group has become one of the largest fiberglass manufacturers in the world, netting over 4.01 billion Yuan (approximately 600 million USD) in sales revenue last year and an average market growth...
Dallas-based Globe Composites began as a sheet rubber products company in the 1890s. One hundred years later, it entered the composites industry and has since focused almost exclusively on making components for military and industrial applications. Read what Carl Forsythe, president and CEO of Globe Composites Solutions has to say about the growing composites...
Ahlstrom is a global development, manufacture and marketing company of high performance fiber-based materials based in Helsinki, Finland. Ahlstrom’s 6,100 employees serve customers via sales offices and production facilities in more than 20 countries on six continents. In 2008, Ahlstrom’s net sales amounted to 1.8 billion Euros. Dan Jonsas, Ahlstrom’s vice president and general...
Chris Frigo is the president of De Pere, Wis.-based Forte Composites, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. The company manufactures pre-cast polymer concrete, and they produce a variety of products including pump bases for the pump industry, secondary containment curbing for the chemical industry and civil applications such as waste containers, park benches and...
Jim deVries has coordinated various research programs for Ford Motor Company since 1977. His research areas include surface related phenomena associated with automotive materials and, most recently, the development of advanced composites and lightweight material manufacturing processes. How can the composites industry be more competitive in the automotive industry? It needs to increase the...
Dr. Richard Wool is a professor of chemical engineering at the Delaware-based Center for Composites Materials, part of the University of Delaware. The Center is known for its research on renewable and bio-based composites. Wool has worked on projects such as the soy-based resin now used in John Deere tractors, and the ongoing research...
Christian Kjaer began his career in wind energy in 1998 as an economist with the Danish Wind Energy Association. With a masters in international finance and economics, Kjaer quickly moved up the ranks. After four years he became the policy director over lobbying for the 27-year old European Wind Energy Association (EWEA) and the...
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