High-pressure gas storage vessels are one of the largest and fastest-growing markets for advanced composites (Read Chris Red’s composite tank market assessment in “Pressure vessels for alternative ...

Filament winding is a common and enabling manufacturing process for producing composite items such as pressure vessels, driveshafts, electrical fuses and numerous other bodies of revolution. Fiber ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Dec. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- This month Rock West Composites (RWC) celebrated the full operational capacity of its new, dedicated filament winding facility with a ribbon-cutting ...

Coreless filament winding is an innovative fabrication technique that eschews traditional moulds by utilising minimal support structures to guide resin‐impregnated fibre placement. This process ...

The company from Steffenberg now offers the Filament Winding Machine FWA 1 Duplex. The new process technology enables the winding process from both sides of a spindle and thus halves the production ...

Composites technology company Cygnet Texkimp [Northwich, UK] has delivered a four-axis filament winding machine to the National Composites Centre [NCC, Bristol, UK] where it will form part of a new ...

SALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 31, 2019 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- This month Rock West Composites (RWC) announces the acquisition of new equipment and manufacturing space as it expands its filament winding ...

Composite materials have revolu­tionised a wide range of industries, including aerospace and automotive, offering unrivalled strength, lightness and design flexibility compared to more conventional ...

US-based chemical company Dow expanded its composites portfolio in March, with the Voraforce 1100 series of polyurethane systems developed for composites fabrication by filament winding, to enhance ...

Glass fibre is the most widely used and the cheapest reinforcement. It is available in three main types. E-Glass is the standard form and is also known as Electrical grade. It has very low alkali ...