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  Hexagon Agility, a Hexagon Composites company, signed an agreement in June 2021 with Xpress Natural Gas LLC (XNG), a full-service provider of compressed and renewable natural gas in the United States, to deliver its Mobile Pipeline® modules for the clean natural gas transportation.  Under this contract, Hexagon Agility received its second XNG order, worth an estimated $ 2.8 million.  The modules are expected to be delivered in the fourth quarter of 2021. “The TITAN 53s has allowed us to make clean natural gas accessible and affordable for our customers, keeping businesses running and homes warm during the cold winter months.  Hexagon's products have proven to be of high quality - safe, reliable, and high performing, ”said Jeffrey Ciampa, XNG's chief operating officer.  " The TITAN® 53 modules offer the highest capacity in North America and will serve multiple projects to communities and industries that do not have access to natural gas or lack sufficient pipeline capacit

Hanwha Cimarron LLC will build a new $130 million production facility in Alabama to produce large-scale tanks for hydrogen transport, filling stations, and support expansion into tanks for UAM, drones, launch vehicle rockets, defense, rail, cargo ships, transportation and more. Hanwha Cimarron currently manufactures large tanks for compressed hydrogen gas as well as tanks for cryogenic fuels used in space launch vehicles. This acquisition is part of Hanwha Solutions’ efforts to accelerate its expansion into the green-hydrogen industry. The company reports that Hanwha Cimarron provides the technology to manufacture tanks for hydrogen tube trailers, ultra-high-pressure tanks for hydrogen filling stations and tanks for aerospace applications, as well as for hydrogen-powered vehicles. “Including the acquisition costs, we plan to invest at least $100 million in Cimarron Composites by 2025 to establish a strong foundation from which to develop our global hydrogen tank business,” said a spoke

  Scientists are working on   carbon fibres   made from   biomaterials   instead of fossil fuels in an attempt to create a version that does not generate   carbon   emissions. Bio-based carbon fibres could be used to build lightweight electric cars with greater battery range, according to senior scientist Dr Erik Frank. In architecture,  concrete  could be reinforced with carbon fibres instead of  steel , allowing ultra-thin structures to be built. "It's a wonder material because it is very strong and yet light compared to metal," said Frank, who is head of carbon fibre development and new materials at the  German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research  in Denkendorf, southern Germany. However, "the carbon footprint of carbon fibres is usually very bad," he added. "The raw materials [for regular carbon fibre] come from petroleum but we're trying to move away from this," he explained. "Bio-based carbon fibres are in much higher demand than th

  LYOCELL FIBER : A well-known Chinese manufacturer is offering Lyocell fiber since 2010 and has increased its production capacity up to 30,000 tpa in recent years. Features of lyocell Fiber: Lyocell fiber has good characteristics of dry strength, wet strength, and high wet modulus which possesses the softness of cotton,lustre of silk, smooth of hemp. It has good hygroscopicity, fine drape, strong abrasion resistance, and good spinnability which is easy to be dyed. Interested buyers/textile companies are looking out to buy lyocell fiber, please reach out at rosaram211@gmail.com to have TDS and other technical information.

  📢Time to Get Technical...📢 Let's learn more about filament winding! Filament winding consists of winding continuous rovings of fiber onto a rotating mandrel in predetermined patterns. This method of manufacturing provides the greatest control over fiber placement and uniformity of structure. The mandrel configuration corresponds to the internal surface of the component to be produced. Material compaction is accomplished owing to the component of the tensile stress normal to the mandrel surface. Material layers are formed with each wind offset with respect to the previous one across the width. Also, the winds are placed on the mandrel in a state of static balance (they keep it in place without sliding.) The winding pattern is formed by periodically repeated winding cycles, with subsequent cycles offset relative to one another across the winding-tape width. The mandrel is then covered with winds uniformly along the maximum component diameter, excluding gaps and filament overlaps.

  With enough pressure, you can turn anything into metal, and water is no exception. However, scientists Czech Academy of Sciences in Prague managed to turn liquid water into a bronze-like metallic state without having to apply ungodly amounts of pressure, which makes the achievement all the more impressive. If squeezed together tightly enough, atoms and molecules can become so compacted in their lattice that they begin to share their outer electrons, allowing them to travel and basically conduct electricity as they would in a copper wire. Case in point, in 2020,  French scientists turned  the simplest gas in the universe, hydrogen, into a metal and fulfilled a prediction made in 1935 by Nobel Prize laureates Eugene Wigner and Hillard Bell Huntington. Metal hydrogen is, in fact, a superconductor, meaning it conducts electricity with zero electrical resistance. To do so, the French researchers subjected hydrogen to a staggering 425 gigapascals of pressure — more than four million times