Composites end markets: Electronics (2023)
By: Hannah Mason
Increasingly, prototype and production-ready smart devices featuring thermoplastic composite cases and other components provide lightweight, optimized sustainable alternatives to metal.
#Basics #sourcebook #feature
Composites end markets: Utility infrastructure (2023)
By: Hannah Mason
For utility poles and pipes to protective structures and cell towers, composites offer advantages like corrosion resistance, durability and light weight for ease of transport and installation.
#feature #infrastructure #multitudeofmarkets
Composites end markets: Sports and recreation (2023)
By: Hannah Mason
Interest in higher performance and more sustainability drive new composite materials innovations in sporting goods and other consumer products.
#sourcebook #feature #multitudeofmarkets
Demand components lead to composites GBI contraction
By: Jan Schafer
For the first time in two years, the Composites Fabricating Index has contracted, though components continue to shift between expanding and contracting activity.
#economics
Composites end markets: Pressure vessels (2023)
By: Jeff Sloan
The composite pressure vessel market is fast-growing and now dominated by demand for hydrogen storage.
#sourcebook #hydrogen #feature
Composites end markets: Aerospace (2023)
By: Jeff Sloan
With COVID in the past and passengers flying again, commercial aircraft production is ramping up. The aerocomposites supply chain is busy developing new M&P for an approaching next-generation aircraft program.
#Basics #sourcebook #nextgenaerospace
Composites end markets: Boatbuilding and marine (2023)
By: Hannah Mason
While the recreational boating market is challenged to meet record-breaking sales in 2020 and 2021, composite materials and design innovation are abound, with a noticeable focus on 3D printing, biomaterials and sustainability.
#Basics #sourcebook #feature
Composites end markets: Energy (2023)
By: Hannah Mason
Composites are used widely in oil/gas, wind and other renewable energy applications. Despite market challenges, growth potential and innovation for composites continue.
#sourcebook #feature #multitudeofmarkets
Episode 40: Sarah Cox, NASA
By: Jeff Sloan
Sarah Cox, materials engineer at NASA, talks about her experience at NASA working with composites in the space travel space.
As 2023 begins, a look back at trending CW topics in 2022
By: Jeff Sloan
With 2022 now behind us, CW’s editor-in-chief Jeff Sloan takes a look at the CW stories last year that received the most reader attention.
#editorial
CompositesWorld SourceBook 2023
By: Jeff Sloan
Welcome to the online SourceBook, the counterpart to CompositesWorld's annually published print SourceBook composites industry buyer's guide.
#multitudeofmarkets #sourcebook #Basics
Composites end markets: Automotive (2023)
By: Hannah Mason
Electrification and a focus on sustainability lead to opportunities and innovations in composites, from battery enclosures to structural components and more.
#Basics #sourcebook #feature
