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The Industrial Nanocomposites conference will focus on the current and emerging applications of polymer nanocomposites; defining challenges and drivers in relation to the use of nanocomposites, and will consider the way forward, discussing commercialisation routes and future opportunities.

The conference is aimed at those with an interest in the current and near-term future use of nanocomposites in industrial applications with topics including:

NCC Tier 2 Member, 3M, are hosting a seminar at the NCC on Tuesday 25th July 2017, giving you the opportunity to come and discuss your PPE questions with Alan McArthur, 3M Technical Supervisor in the 3M Personal Safety Division. With over 18 years of experience, Alan McArthur is more than qualified to help assist with your PPE needs.

AC Marine & Composites has announced that it will be supplying composite struts, in partnership with Off Limit Engineering, to Minesto.

The Deep Green project will be deployed at Holyhead Deep, off the coast of Wales.

Christian Norinder, Development Engineer at Minesto:

Altair and Artemis Racing together have applied design and simulation technology to help place Artemis Racing in a position to take it all in the 35th America’s Cup. The design of the daggerboards – foils that lift the boat out of the water to break the drag barrier – will be a critical differentiator between the competing teams as they have a significant impact on a boat’s performance. The Altair and Artemis Racing technical teams have placed a great deal of emphasis on perfecting these composite material structures.

A C Marine & Composites is delighted to confirm that the Atlantis Resources AR1500 tidal turbine has been installed at the MeyGen site in the Pentland Firth. The 1.5 megawatt turbine hit full power following installation and is already exporting to the grid. The three rotor blades were manufactured in house by A C Marine & Composites.

Sigmatex, the world’s leading independent converter of carbon fibre, will exhibit in Paris at JEC World (next month between 12 – 16 March) - the largest composites networking event. Sigmatex develops and manufactures technical textiles for composite material applications and will be in hall 6 on booth G5.

On stand at the exhibition, Sigmatex will reveal one of Reebok CCM Hockey’s new 2017 sticks – SuperTacks 2.0. The stick utilises sigmaST - Sigmatex’s Spread Tow carbon fibre and is designed to achieve maximum performance through lightweight, precision and strength.  

NCC Tier 2 Member, 3M, invites you to join their webinar hosted by Jeff Kapp, 3M Automotive & Aerospace Solution Division Engineer: ‘Two worlds separated by a common science: exploring adhesive bonding processes in the Automotive and Aerospace sectors’.

Wednesday 14th December – 12:00 to 12:45 (GMT)

Register at: www.3m.co.uk/aero.webinar

NCC Tier 2 Member and UK-based composite aerostructures, assemblies and components provider, AGC AeroComposites, has developed a new, low-cost thermoplastic composite welding technique. Developed under AGC’s CoFusion project, the new welding technique can be used on both flat and curvature components. Receiving funding from the National Aerospace Technology Exploitation Programme (NATEP), CoFusion showed that carbon/polyphenylene sulfide (PPS) composite thermoformed components can be welded to produce complex assemblies.

The NCC is pleased to hear that Associate Member, A C Marine & Composites, will be supplying tidal turbine blades to Atlantis Resources. Following an extensive and rigorous selection process, involving nineteen of Europe’s leading composites manufacturers, Atlantis Resources selected A C Marine & Composites to manufacture their blades and assist with manufacturing advice during the design phase

TenCate Advanced Composites, a leading global composite materials company, celebrate the inaugural opening of their extended facility at Langley Mill (Nottingham), United Kingdom, the European Centre of Excellence for thermoset prepreg systems.

ESI Group (Paris:ESI), pioneer and world-leading solution provider in Virtual Prototyping for manufacturing industries, introduces a complete and transformational offering to help industrial manufacturers leapfrog their traditional “Product Lifecycle Management” (PLM), which focuses on design and development, and manage instead their “Product Performance Lifecycle” (PPL) during the anticipated operational product life all the way from maintenance to phase-out.

The ‘Breakthrough Aerospace Materials’ project, known as BAM, commenced March 2016. The 3 year ATI project looks to advance the manufacturing techniques and simulation of 3D textiles in the UK and to make them commercially available to the aerospace industry. Currently, the use of 3D textile composites is held back by a lack of analysis techniques that are able to accurately predict weave architectures and the resulting processing and structural performance.

Sigmatex are pleased to announce its collaboration with British bike manufacturer Orro, on its new range of elite road bikes. Orro’s objective is to create the best and most stylish bikes for serious riders. Orro use the latest pioneering materials of the highest quality and their Gold Signature bike can even be painted to a bespoke design. Orro’s Gold range is the flagship model, described as a ‘real world performance bike’. The bikes utilise the innovative ‘sigmaST’ product – Sigmatex’s spread tow carbon fibre textile solution.

26th April 2016, Coseley, West Midlands, UK – ELG Carbon Fibre, a leading supplier of carbon fibre products, will be exhibiting and presenting at the Global Automotive Lightweight Materials (GALM) European conference this week (26th – 28th April).

As the cost and supply of carbon remains a prohibitive factor for OEM’s, ELG Carbon Fibre is presenting a range of recycled carbon products for use in automotive applications that offer significant weight savings at an affordable cost.

AIC Group has completed delivery of an advanced composite processing oven to Terma Aerostructures A/S in Denmark. Designed to give outstanding performance to aerospace material specification pyrometry standard AMS2570E with exceptional temperature uniformity and increased energy efficiency, the oven will be used for production of advanced aircraft components.

Hexcel is to have its innovative CFRP technology introduced in the BMW 7 Series where it is used to save weight and reinforce the metal shell of the B-pillar.

Hexcel supplies BMW with preforms made of unidirectional carbon prepreg set in various orientations and combined with adhesive. The prepreg is made from Hexcel's HexPly M77 resin system that cures in 1.5 minutes at 160 degrees Celsius.

14th January 2016, Coseley, West Midlands, UK – ELG Carbon Fibre, a leading supplier of recycled carbon fibre products, has achieved AS/EN9100 quality management system certification from Bureau Veritas for the ‘Recovery of carbon fibre from manufacturing waste and end of life products’ and the ‘Manufacture of recycled carbon fibre materials and products’.

NCC Tier 2 Member Heraeus, the photonics solutions provider, was presented with the prestigious Queen's Award for Enterprise: Innovation by Sir Hugh Duberly KCVO, CBE, Her Majesty’s Lord-Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire. The Lord-Lieutenant, along with other Cambridge dignitaries and guests, was in attendance to see Debbie Playle, Heraeus Noblelight's Managing Director, receive the award given in recognition of the company's ground-breaking progress in the automated manufacture of flash lamps.

NCC Associate Member celebrates 25 years running.  This specialist engineering company provides design and build of bespoke composite processing equipment and controls. Since the company’s launch in 1990, they have expanded from Aeroform product support to providing services and advanced industrial process equipment to the major companies in aerospace, automotive and Formula 1 industries.

AIC Group announced today (17th August) that it is refurbishing a 3m x 10m autoclave for a global North American aerospace company. AIC will refit the autoclave with various features, including its Autoclave Management and Control System (AMCS).

The aerospace company bought the autoclave for its South American jet building facility, which employs 1500 people. The autoclave needs to be up and running by late September, which ruled out buying a new autoclave. AIC will deliver it in the first week of August.