Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are developing a method to produce aerospace-grade composites without the enormous ovens and pressure vessels currently used in the process ...

Composite materials are essential in the aerospace industry. To shape them, autoclaves, high-pressure and high-temperature chambers are traditionally used. But to optimise energy consumption and ...

Cirrus took a step to produce more of its Vision SF50 single jet in-house with the installation of an autoclave oven at its Grand Forks, N.D. facility. Cirrus this spring expanded the Grand Forks ...

Boeing’s next innovation in composites could render autoclaves obsolete, says Boeing chairman Jim McNerney. The epoxy resin within the composite structures that comprise the fuselage of the 787 and ...

In recent years, out of autoclave (OOA), under vacuum pressure only (VBO) cure processing of composites has been one of the most significant fields in the composite sector. For more than 20 years, ...

Malaysian composite parts specialist CTRM is investing in new technology to attract future airliner programs with its lower labor costs, moving away from design work it finds too cyclical. Focusing on ...

Hoffman, who invented the SET process, received his bachelor's degree in physics from Moravian College (Bethlehem, PA), and his master's degree in mechanical engineering from Rensselaer. Kuppers, who ...

Continuous Composites got its start with a stab wound. When a strand of fiberglass punctured Ken Tyler’s skin, the North Idaho inventor started thinking about the strength of the lightweight material.

ROCKLEDGE, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Matrix Composites, an ITT Inc. (NYSE: ITT) company, announced that its trademarked closed molding process, Hot Isostatic Resin Pressure Molding (HiRPM®), is ...

The UK's lack of experience in the production of large composite structures may see it lose key work on the Airbus A350 XWB to sister divisions in Germany and Spain, warns a senior Airbus executive.