Plastic and fibre is a well known combination for making strong lightweight specialist enclosures, but can a little bit of fibre reinforcement usefully improve mass-produced injection moulded parts?

Craig has worked in automotive media for nearly 20 years, producing content for publications ranging from Autoline and AutoGuide to Roadshow by CNET and EV Pulse. Aside from writing, he’s also ...

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT in Aachen, Germany, have developed a novel recycling process to recover the carbon-fiber reinforcement used in composite materials ...

Sabic introduces UDMAX GPE 46-70 tape, the last addition to its expanding portfolio of unidirectional fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite tape products. Commercially available worldwide, the new ...

When a hurricane looms, a new tape could soon help homeowners keep their walls from blowing apart. X Flex tape, a clear, Kevlar-reinforced tape tested and developed in conjunction with the U.S.

Avient’s new Polystrand™ tape offers a wide-format, fibreglass-reinforced unidirectional composite material to enable enhanced manufacturing efficiency and increased production scalability. It will be ...

The self-fusing silicone tape line now includes sinusoidal fiberglass-reinforced tape The self-fusing silicone tape line now includes sinusoidal fiberglass-reinforced tape. Fiberglass strands ...

The Advanced Tape Layer Additive Manufacturing (ATLAM) printhead installed at the Technical University of Munich, Chair of Carbon Composites (LCC). Photo Credit: CEAD, TUM LCC. The ATLAM toolhead will ...