Tag: composite
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National Science Foundation awards Michael Bartlett $590,600 to study soft composite manufacturing
Michael Bartlett, an assistant professor in Virginia Tech’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, has been granted a $590,600 National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award to research and understand new strategies for manufacturing liquid metal-based soft composites. These functional composites are deformable robust materials that could be used to make robots and electronics that…
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‘World’s first 3D printed fiber reinforced polymer footbridge paves way for circular composites’, say designers
The world’s first lightweight 3D printed fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) footbridge will be installed at Kralingse Bos park – the green heart of Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. Its designers say the construction will herald the transition towards “the next generation of bridges, offering high performance with extreme versatility, circularity and sustainability”. Science and technology company…
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Severstal expands automation capabilities with second investment in Airborne
PAO Severstal, one of the world’s largest vertically integrated steel and mining companies, has led a second tranche of investment into Dutch company Airborne, a developer of digital automation platforms for the production of composite parts and products with integrated composites. The total investment in Airborne has already amounted to “several tens of millions of…
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Kingetics makes ‘big innovations’ in footwear-exoskeleton-robotic ambulation science
By Dakota Grossman, writer, and Dr Steven King, managing member, Kingetics Kingetics, a small veteran owned startup company has developed and tested new technology that has shown significant improvements in protecting our soldiers as well as improving the gait of mechanical walking systems. Load carriage and high impact forces on the lower limbs are often…
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Severstal invests in robotics to automate advanced composites manufacturing with Airborne
Severstal, one of the world’s largest vertically integrated steel and mining companies, has invested in Dutch company Airborne, a developer of robotic and digital automation platforms for the production of composite parts and products with integrated composites. Severstal joins other investors in this investment round, including Pangaea Ventures, the leading advanced materials venture capital fund,…
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AREVO partners with AGC on 3D printing in Japanese markets
AREVO, the Silicon Valley company specialising in composites manufacturing through digitalization – or 3D printing, has chosen AGC as its strategic business partner in Japan. The two companies plan to provide “manufacturing-as-a-service” for the on-demand production of ultra-strong, lightweight 3D-printed composite parts for the Japanese market. This service is based on AREVO’s “Aqua” platform, the…
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Magna celebrates growing footprint in China with two grand opening events
Magna held two grand opening ceremonies last month in China, for new factories in Changsha and Shanghai. The new plant in Changsha, a joint venture with GAC subsidiary GAC Component Co., Ltd. (GAC Component), began production of composite liftgates for a global automaker’s crossover vehicle in late 2018. Last month, Magna’s plant in Shanghai started…