New housing innovations could be coming your way courtesy of KaZaK Composites. The company, which pursues development of integrated composite design and processing technologies, hopes to parlay a $150,000 Department of Energy grant into a highly automated process for producing mass-market structural plastic building panels with high-performance insulating properties.
Below are 10 close-up photos of objects made of composites in the auto, sports and recreation, construction, renewable energy and other market segments. Everyone who posts the correct answers by Dec 15 will be entered in a drawing to win a free registration to COMPOSITES 2010 in Las Vegas, Feb. 9-11.
The American Composites Manufacturers Association (ACMA) earned another small victory on the road to acceptance last week at the International Code Council (ICC). The hearings, held in Baltimore on November 4-7, were part of a code development hearing by the ICC Fire Safety Committee to address comments on new proposals for inclusion in the International...
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...
At a Composites Caucus briefing on Capitol Hill this morning, staff from congressional representatives’ offices questioned members of the Transportation Structures Council (TSC) about the use of composites in infrastructure applications.
Composite materials continue to penetrate into various bridge projects across the country. A new balsa-cored composite bridge deck opened to traffic over the Pierre Part Bayou in Assumption Parish, La. The parties involved in the project included the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LA DOTD), Louisiana State University (LSU), Crescent City Composites, and...
Could longer carbon fibers improve the blast resistance of reinforced concrete structures? A research team at Missouri University of Science and Technology hopes so. The team hopes the technology will be used in applications that necessitate blast resistance, including Army applications and structures prone to terrorist attacks and earthquakes. “It’s like the coating in...
A new balsa-cored composite bridge deck recently opened to traffic over the Pierre Part Bayou in Assumption Parish, La. The parties involved in the project included the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development (LA DOTD), Louisiana State University (LSU), Crescent City Composites, and Alcan Baltek. The latter company says this installation is believed to...
Axion International Holdings, Inc., Basking Ridge, N.J., has just completed the construction of two 100 percent recycled plastic bridges for the US Army. The eco-friendly structural building materials used in the bridges have been specifically engineered to allow for the crossing of armored military vehicles. The composite bridges, commissioned by the military and built...
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