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Diab received the JEC Composites Innovation Award for the 100% Thermoplastic and Recyclable Panel for Cabin interiors. The panel is 100% recyclable, includes recycled content from production waste, and is consequently 100% waste-free. Being recyclable and reusable, it offers the Aerospace industry a vital step toward a circular economy. Diab’s sustainable panel solution for cabin interiors takes advantage of the performance of the structural foam core Divinycell F and combines it with thermoplastic skins. Using only materials already tested and qualified by Aerospace OEM, the panel is fully compliant with all requirements within the industry, yet 100% recyclable. Diab also created a new innovative manufacturing process that saves up to 20% of the cost, up to 10% of weight, and offers higher mechanical and fire resistance behavior than current Honeycomb core and Phenolic resin/Glass fibre solutions. “At the start of the project, we decided to think out of the box and push the limit of e...

  I have completed an assignment on the Aroma chemicals market for a well-reputed company and shared my insights on Aroma chemicals mainly the Benzenoids market and demand for the Asia Pacific and European Union etc. I have covered an overview landscape of the market, swot analysis, latest technological advancements, customer preference over pricing and design, Investment structure, etc stated in detail in the report.

The technology center @Eurecat has announced tests in manufacturing with Compositronics for the development of functional composite materials, by combining various manufacturing processes, flexible printed electronics, and insertion of components, which provide new features in terms of lightness and in the cheapening of industrial assembly. According to the director of the Composite Materials Unit at Eurecat, María Eugenia Rodríguez, Compositronics "is the perfect combination for the development of functional lightweight structures". That is, "thanks to the lightness of composites and printed electronics, it is possible to significantly reduce the weight of components and large structures, and reduce costs in assembly processes with the introduction of sensors during the manufacture of the composite". The various processes "are carried out at Eurecat's facilities, at Plastrónica's pilot plant and in the laboratories of the technology center's compos...

  Sinoma Science and Technology (Chengdu)’s 100,000th 260L steel liner carbon fiber fully wound composite gas cylinder successfully rolled off the production line. More than 60 people including the company’s middle-level and above cadres, technical backbones, and front-line employee representatives participated in the event. The 260L steel liner carbon fiber fully wound composite gas cylinder is an attempt to fully respond to the lightweight development direction of the gas cylinder market.  In 2016, China’s national standard of the automobile industry, “Outline Dimensions, Axle Loads and Mass Limits of Automobiles, Trailers and Automobile Trains” was released, and greatly lowered the mass limit of vehicles. Sinoma Chengdu had a keen insight into the lightweight needs of the gas cylinder market, and quickly made a decision to develop weight-reducing gas cylinders through in-depth research. With industry experience and innovation spirit, the company’s R&D team quickly devel...

Let's learn more about the strength of fibers! Fibers generally exhibit much higher strengths than the bulk form of the same material. The probability of a flaw per unit length present in a sample is an inverse function of the volume of the material. Since fibers have a very low volume per unit length, they are much stronger on average than the bulk material, which has a high volume per unit length. On the other hand, because a bulk material has a much higher content of weakening flaws, it exhibits much lower variability in strength. Thus, the smaller the fiber diameter and the shorter its length, the higher the average and maximum strength but the greater the variability. Therefore, fibers have higher strength than their bulk counterparts, but they have greater scatter in their strength. The variability in the strength of fibers is a function of the flaws they contain and, in particular, the flaws they contain on the surface. Flaws can be minimized by careful manufacturing process...

  Green hydrogen projects will help India slash its reliance on oil and coal and help it curb emissions. French giant TotalEnergies SE and Indian billionaire Gautam Adani’s conglomerate plan to invest $5 billion to produce green hydrogen and related products in India as the world’s third-largest polluter seeks to decarbonize. Total will buy a 25% stake in Adani New Industries Ltd. for an undisclosed amount, according to an exchange filing from Adani Enterprises Ltd. on Tuesday. Adani New Industries is a closely-held company of Adani Enterprises, the flagship firm for the coal-to-ports conglomerate. Adani Enterprises’s shares were trading almost 6% higher in Mumbai at 11:53 a.m. local time. The purchase would be yet another shot in the arm for Adani, who has been seeking global investors and has committed to spending as much as $70 billion by 2030 across the green-energy value chain. Green hydrogen projects will also help India — the world’s third-largest carbon-...

  Gruntech Polymer Consultants have completed a phase-1 consulting service for a global multinational company to enter into an Indian market for a Type 4 composite cylinder project. The Indian market has got great potential for Make in India to gain strong momentum among international investors. It is exciting to see the progress that we are making as an industry and the growth that Type 4 composite cylinders are having in new applications. These initiatives will help me progress towards getting the composite cylinder market to scale in India and other Asia Pacific regions but there is a lot more work to be done.

Italian long-duration storage developer Energy Dome has launched the first CO2 battery demonstration nationally. The facility in Sardinia, Italy is aimed to mark the final de-risking of CO2 battery technology as a long-duration storage option as the company takes it to the commercial scaling phase. Energy Dome says in a statement that the initial phase of operations has confirmed the performance of the CO2 battery and its capability of storing energy for a long duration, all while maintaining highly competitive round-trip efficiency, without degradation or site dependency. Developed using off-the-shelf equipment, rapid deployment of the battery should now be possible. “We can now provide an answer to the most pressing issue of our time: climate change,” said Energy Dome Founder and CEO Claudio Spadacini. “Our breakthrough technology, the CO2 battery, is now commercially available to make cost-effective renewable energy dispatchable on a global scale.” Energy Dome claims its CO2 batteri...