In an earlier blog entry and in the Postcure Chatter section of our winter issue, CM magazine posted a brain teaser. Considering the buzz around fantasy football, the hype of the Super Bowl or just a clean PGA Tour, we decided to infuse to game with a bit of healthy competition.
BASF has been marketing its green Acrodur resin in Europe for several years now, but with the United States on a green kick, the company felt it was the right time to introduce the material to the American market. The Acrodur acrylic thermoset is designed to produce prepreg/semi-finished rollstock or blanks, as well as cross-link...
Central Virginia Wind Energy & Manufacturing and researchers at the University of Virginia (UVA) are designing a new turbine that they anticipate will be capable of harnessing wind power in their home state and across the country. The 9-foot prototype wind turbine, dubbed the Blade Runner 5000, is a vertical axis rotating turbine designed to...
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.
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...
Offshore wind energy is one step closer to becoming a reality for the U.S. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) conducted a 10-month study, upon the request of the North Carolina General Assembly, on the viability of installing wind turbines off the coast of N.C. The study focused on the analysis...
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...
Hywind, a 2.3MW (megawatt) floating offshore wind turbine, was created by Norwegian oil and gas company StatoilHydro, in collaboration with Siemens and Technip. StatoilHydro recently installed the first Hywind 32 miles off the town of Karmoey in south-western Norway. The project began in 2001 with the help of Norwegian-based Enova, a public corporation aimed...
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...
The United Soybean Board formed in the mid-1990s in an attempt to rally increased usage of soybeans in the U.S. There is one committee, influential to the composites industry, which was formed to look at ways soybeans could be used in various industries. We asked Dwight Rust, the United Soybean Board’s Commercialization Manager, a...
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