When you’re a big company like Northrop Grumman, you need a lot of help to make business happen. This is better accomplished by employing an intricate supply chain. But what is the chain like, and what is the role of composite companies in this network?
Applied Nanotech Holdings has had great success incorporating carbon nanotubes (CNT) into sporting goods applications. Now, it is trying to broaden its focus to create successful implementations for the defense market via a $25,000 purchase order from the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center's Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL).
In early 2000, Nanotek Instruments Inc. received several research grants from the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programs of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and National Science Foundation (NSF) to develop a new class of nanomaterial. The material, now commonly referred to as nano-scaled graphene plates (NGPs), can be used in applications, such...
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.
If you happened to thumb through the latest issue of Popular Science magazine you may have noticed that composites are prominently featured. Berry Plastics Corporation’s X-FLEX Blast Protection System has taken the Grand Award for the magazine’s “Best of What’s New 2009” feature.
A new technology created by the U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Laboratory (ERDC) facilitates the conversion of test data relating to strain, moisture and temperature of FRP composites into an “estimation of the service life” of the material, based on humidity, temperature and stress.
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...
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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